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PaulGeoffreyTankard

BA,Dip.Ed.,Grad.Dip.Arts(Engl.),MA,Ph.D.

173YorkPlaceCityRise,Dunedin9016

NewZealand

SeniorLecturer,DepartmentofEnglishUniversityofOtago

P.O.Box56Dunedin9054NewZealand

+6434797724(work)+6434792869(home)

[email protected]

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CurriculumVitae

PaulGeoffreyTankardCONTENTS

EMPLOYMENTHISTORY• Academic

TeachingSupervisionsExaminationsTrainingOtherResponsibilities

• SchoolandOtherTeaching• OtherEmploymentTERTIARYEDUCATIONGRANTS,AWARDS,FELLOWSHIPSPUBLICATIONS• RefereedArticles• Edition• BookChapters• ReviewsinAcademicJournals• Op.-Ed.Features• BookReviews• EditingandRefereeing• WorksCited/Acknowledged• Conferences,Talks,Papers• FilmReviews• BroadcastsCOMMUNITYWORK/VOLUNTARYORGANIZATIONSRESEARCHINTERESTSREFEREES

EMPLOYMENTHISTORYAcademic

DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofOtago(Dunedin,NewZealand)SeniorLecturerinEnglish

• AppointedLecturer,3February2003• Earlyconfirmationofappointment,4September2007• PromotedtoSeniorLecturer,1February2008• PromotedtoSeniorLecturer(beyondthebar),1February2014

Teaching Subjectscoordinatedandtaught

• ENGL227AdvancedWriting,from2009:EssayandFeatureWriting(1stsemester2003-2016)

• ENGL472FantasyWorlds(2004,2005)• ENGL228WritingfortheProfessions(2ndsemester2004,2006)• ENGL327CreativeNon-fiction(2ndsemester2007-09,2011-12,2014-16;1st

semester2013)• ENGL476GrubStreet(full-year:2005,2006,2008,2012,2014)

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Subjectscoordinated• ENGL126EnglishforUniversityPurposes(2ndsemester2008)

Lecturerand/ortutorin• ENGL127EffectiveWriting(2ndsemester2003;SummerSchool2004)• ENGL469Modernism(T.S.Eliot)(2004)• ENGL251WordandImage:TheLordoftheRings(SummerSchool2004,

2005)• ENGL251WordandImage:TheChildren’sFantasiesofC.S.Lewis,J.R.R.

TolkienandJ.K.Rowling(SummerSchool2006,2008-16)• ENGL150CrimeFiction(Chesterton)(2008,2009)• ENGL233ApproachestoLiteraryStudy:HeartofDarkness(Adaptation

Studies),19,22August,2014;21,24April,2015;26,29April2016.• ENGL480:OralPresentations.21,28March2014.• ENGL490:ResearchProcesses.27March2015,8April2016.

Contributionsasguestlecturerto:• ENGL319ModernandContemporaryPoetry(2003):ElizabethBishop,T.S.

Eliot• ENGL218Shakespeare(2004):PanelonTheTempest• ENGL312RestorationandEighteenth-centuryLiterature:London(2004):

Johnson’speriodicalpapers• CLAS461ClassicalandEnglishLiteraryCriticism(2004):GerardGenette• OtagoGraduateBusinessProgramMBAclass(2004):ReportWriting• StudentLearningCentre(2005,2006):WritingtheThesis• ENGL313VictorianLiterature(2006,2007,2008):Children’sFantasy

Writing:LewisCarrollandGeorgeMacDonald• DunedinYear13ScholarshipTutorialProgramme(2007)• CriticWriters’Day2015,1Sept.2015.ClassonEnglishexpression

SupervisionsDoctoralCandidates(4):• AshleyCook,“OutofTime?:Children’sFictionandFin-de-SiecleTemporality,

PoliticsandCulture,1888-1911.”SupervisedJan.–Sept.2014,90%Primarysupervisor,withDr.ThomasMcLean.AcceptedDec.2014.

• JosephYoung,“SecondaryWorldsinPre-TolkienianFantasyFiction.”Primarysupervisor,60%co-supervisionwithEm.Prof.ColinGibson.Enrolled9May2007,completedJune2011.

• AnnE.M.Hassan,“GeoffreyHill’sSpeech!Speech!:AnAnnotatedEdition.”50%co-supervisionwithProf.ChrisAckerley.EnrolledMarch2004,completedApril2011.(Thesissubsequentlypublishedasamonograph.)

• UlrikeScherer,“‘DreamNotofOtherWorlds…’:C.S.Lewis,PhilipPullmanandtheGhostofMilton.”50%co-supervisionwithProf.LynTribble.Enrolled9Feb.2007,completedAugust2011.

MastersCandidates(4):• AnthonyTedeschi,“AnAnalyticalStudyandCatalogueoftheDunedinPublic

Library’sJohnsonCollection.”50%co-supervisionwithDr.ShefRogers. 2009-12.Markof90,A+

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• OlgaKotnowska,“ImaginingFact:ImaginativeLiteratureasaMediumofScienceCommunication”,2010(M.Sci.Comm.).10%co-supervisionwiththeCentreforScienceCommunication.

• FebrianiIdrus,“‘DragonsareNotUniversal’:ExplorationsofRaceandOthernessinTheLordoftheRingsand‘TheChroniclesofNarnia’,”2009-10.Markof86,A.

• UlrikeScherer,“ImagesofMasculinityinMarionZimmerBradley’sTheMistsofAvalon:AFeminist’sQuestforNewArthurian‘Heroes’?”,2006.A-

HonoursCandidates(18):• BethSalisbury:“Re-imaginingAllegorywithC.S.Lewis.”2017.• MaryBarnett:“AlwaysItisOwls:SituatingAlanGarner’sTheOwlService,”

2016.Markof90.• EmilyFalloon:“HereBeDragons:DragonMythologiesfromAncientto

Tolkien,”2015.Markof88• SaraLamb-Miller:“WhatdoesTheHobbitLookLike?Imageand

ImaginationintheWorksofJ.R.R.Tolkien,”2015.Markof78.• GenevieveScanlan,“‘ContraryLures’:ConflictedLongingsforFantasyand

Socialisationinthe‘PeterPan’NovelsofJ.M.Barrie”,2012.Markof87,A.• LynnWainwright,“Idleness,WomenandCrowdsinDr.Johnson’sIdler

Essays,”2012.B+• PhilippaKennerley,“HeroisminTheLordoftheRings,”2011.A.• SusanBuckley,“CatherineSinclairandVictorianChildren’sLiterature,”2011

(co-supervisionwithDr.WendyParkins).B+• DeniseDonaldson,“HenryMayhewandWomen,”2011(co-supervisionwith

Dr.ThomasMcLean).A-• MarieHodgkinson,“NewZealandasaFantasyWorld:TheEffectsofSpecific

Real-WorldReferentsinMauriceGee’sOTrilogyandElizabethKnox’sDreamhunterDuet,”2010.A

• Mee-HeeScorgie,“Dualismsin‘HarryPotter’,”2009.B+• HannahMorgan,“AnxietiesaboutLanguageinan‘AgeofTerror’,”2009.B+• FloraFeltham,“McSweeney’s17andtheTaxonomyofLiterature,”2008.A+• FebrianiIdrus,“‘AHeroBeingBorn’:FeministInterventionsonNarrative

andtheHeroinWorksbyUrsulaLeGuinandTamoraPierce,”2008.A-• TarynTait,“Tolkien’sTheHobbitandtheFairy-TaleTradition,”2006.B+• SarahNoble,Eighteenth-CenturyOperaLibrettists,2006(notcompleted)• SarahBurton,“ChallengingOldAssumptions:AStudyofUrsulaK.LeGuin’s

RevisedEarthsea,”2005.B-• TemperanceTaylor,“MythicStoriesandModernFictions:ANarratological

StudyofLouiseErdrich’sTracksandC.S.Lewis’sTillWeHaveFacesandMyth,”2005.A+(TopHonoursthesisinyear.)

• ShelleyGurney,“IntotheWest:ArthurianInfluencesonDeathandPassinginTolkien’sMiddle-Earth,”2004.B+

• JamesSaville-Smith,“TheLivingDeadintheEarlyPoemsofT.S.Eliot,”2004.B

ExaminationsDoctoraldissertations:• AlastairWhyte,“UtopianIntersectionsintheWorkofJ.R.R.Tolkien,”English,

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UniversityofSydney,2015.• OctaviaCade,“CommunicatingSciencethroughPoetryfrom1780tothe

Present”ScienceCommunication,UniversityofOtago–revisedandre-examined,2014.

• OctaviaCade,“SciencePoetry:Fact,Verse,andtheElementsofGenre,”ScienceCommunication,UniversityofOtago,2013.

• MichaelCop,“ThinkingAcrosstheBible:ConsonanceandDissonanceinEarlyModernEnglishBiblicalVerse,”English,UniversityofOtago,2011.

MastersTheses:• AidanNorrie,“‘NeverMistakeaCivicPageantforKingLear’:ChildActors’

SkillinElizabethanCivicEntertainments,”English,UniversityofOtago,2016• HannahParry,“ClassicalEpicintheWorksofJ.R.R.Tolkien,”English,Victoria

UniversityofWellington,2012.• MeganKitching,“ThePhilosophicalTravellerasSocialCritic,InOliver

Goldsmith’sTheTraveller,TheDesertedVillage,andTheCitizenoftheWorld,”English,UniversityofOtago,2011.

• StevenTzeChingTing,“TheNarrativeStructureofScienceDocumentaries,”ScienceCommunication,UniversityofOtago,2010.

• RosalindMeyer,“NotHeardAtAll:AnEnquiryintoImagesofaMysticalAllegoricalTradition,inEliot’sCocktailParty,”English,UniversityofOtago,2006.

• ShelleyGurney,“FallingfromGrace:CreationandCorruptioninTheSilmarillion,”English,UniversityofOtago,2006.

• PhilippaAyres,“Swift’sSatiricMap:ChartingModernForminGulliver’sTravels,”English,UniversityofOtago,2003.

Honoursdissertations(Univ.ofOtago,unlessnotedotherwise):• IainSutherland,“TheCensorshipofAcrosstheRiver,”2016• BrookeMcGill,“MagicandMetamorphosisintheSleepingBeautyMyth:The

TransformativeConsequencesofEtherealIntervention,”MasseyUniversityAlbany,2015.

• KhalisahIshak,“TheWisdomofProvidence:ReligionandColonialisminDefoe’sRobinsonCrusoe,”2015.

• ChelseaCooper:“‘Under-appreciatedMasterpiece’:AnAnnotatedStudyofJ.G.Farrell’sAGirlintheHead,”2012.

• JamesAnderson,“ACriticalPope:AlexanderPopeandThreeCenturiesofCriticalPractice,”2012.

• MeganKitching,“TheMechanicsofCreationinErasmusDarwin’sTheBotanicGarden,”2009

• RebeccaStewart,“VictorianJudas:RevolutionaryRedemption,”2008• DavidRobertson,“Walpole’sAccountoftheGiants,”2007.• IsabelRoss,“TheRealStory:TheIncompatibilityofNarniawith

Christianity,”VictoriaUniv.ofWellington,2007.• MariaMackay,“HistoricAestheticandEnvironmentalRealityinthe

DepictionofLandscapeinSelectedMedievalEnglishLiterature,”2006.• AnnaJ.Hutchison,“MauriceSendakandtheModernFairyTale,”Victoria

Univ.ofWellington,2006.• SamuelWaldron,“‘…InShort,IwasAfraid’:T.S.EliotandtheGothic,”

VictoriaUniv.ofWellington,2006.• EmilyChurcher,“InSearchoftheRealMollFlanders:NarratingCrimeinthe

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EarlyNovel,”2005.

In-ServiceTraining• NewStaffProgramme(31Aug.–1Sept.2004)• ProfessionalDevelopmentProgramme:(Mis)understandingStudent

Writing:AcademicLiteracyasaWayForward(17March2005)• CourseDesignWorkshop–Dr.RachelSpronken-Smith,HEDC(April,2006)• LunchandLearnProgramme:TimeManagementTips–SuzyKeene(26Feb.

2015)

OtherresponsibilitiesDepartment• DepartmentalLibraryliaison,2003–.• Editorofbi-monthlyEnglishDepartmentalnewsletter,Angles.• ConvenorofDepartmentalClassRepresentativeprogram,S2,2006;S1,

2010;2011–16.• MemberofDepartmentalUndergraduateCurriculumcommittee• MemberofDepartmentalPublicityandEventscommittee.• AppointmenttoDepartmentalSelectionpanelforTeachingFellowin

EffectiveWritingandCommunication,Sept.2006.• ConvenorofDepartmentalWorkingPartyonCo-ordinationofPapersin

EnglishatOtago,Nov.2008.• DepartmentalrepresentativeatHumanitiesStaffWorkshop,re.theCampus

MasterPlan,2April2009.• SupervisedDepartmentofEnglishdatainputforUnipubApp.project,Dec.-

Jan.,2012-13.• RepresentedDepartmentofEnglishandLinguisticsatHEDCGraduate

AttributesSymposium,6Nov.2013.• ChairofDepartmentalWritingCommittee,2011• ConvenoroftheEnglishFridaySeminarprogramme,2014-16.• MemberDepartmentalWorkingPartyonCreativeWritingpapers,2014• WorkingGroupreDep’tReview,2016• Co-convenorofmeetingofFocusGroupforEnglishcurriculum,11October

2016.• EnglishProgrammeCurriculumReformCommittee,member,2016Division• AppointmenttothePro-Vice-Chancellor’sAdvisoryCommitteeforLecturer

inEffectiveWritingandCommunication(ConfirmationPath),DepartmentofEnglish,Sept.2006.

• AppointmenttothePro-Vice-Chancellor’sAdvisoryCommitteeforLecturerinEnglish(ConfirmationPath),DepartmentofEnglish,Sept.2008.

University• NationalPoetryDay,“Poets:DeadorAlive,”1-2p.m.,Friday25August2016,

UniversityofOtagoLink–convenorandhost• RobertBurnsFellowshipSelectionCommittee,2003,2011,2015• MemberoftheorganisingcommitteefortheXIIIthDavidNicholSmith

Conference,Dunedin,April2007• In-houseacademicreaderforMarsdenfundgrantapplicationbyDrAlan

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Davison(Music),attherequestoftheResearchOffice,May2009• HostofvisittoDunedinofDr.ChloeChard(independentscholar),31Aug.–5

Sept.2011• AssistedorganisationofUniversityeventforNationalPoetryDay,22August

2014,withElaineWebster• HostofvisittoDunedinofProf.NoriyukiHarada(headofEnglish,Tokyo

Woman’sChristianUniversity),11–13Sept.2014.• FlagbeareratUniversityofOtago/OtagoUniversityStudentAssociation

AnzacDayceremony,25April2015.• InacademicprocessionatUniversityofOtagograduations:16May2008;23

May2009;21May2011;27August2011;9Dec.2015(Andrea).• Co-hostofvisitorstoDunedin,RickGekoskiandProf.RobertDeMaria

(Vassar,College),1-4March2016.

SchoolofLiterary,VisualandPerformanceStudies[priorto1999,DepartmentofEnglish],MonashUniversity(Melbourne,Australia)

Tutor(part-time)• ENH1250EffectiveWriting1:AcademicWriting(1stsemester2002)• ENH1260EffectiveWriting2:ProfessionalWriting(2ndsemester2002)• ENH1010ReadingLiterature1(1stsemester,1995-2001)• ENH1220ReadingLiteratureII:WorldsinConflict(2ndsemester,1997-

2000)

Tutor(casual)• ENH2340/3340LiteratureandtheChristianTradition,• ENH21306/31306LiteratureandOpposition,1660-1800(2ndsemester

2001).

Lecturer(casual)• ENH1090TheReaderinHistory(1995)In-serviceTraining• MonashEnglishDepartment:ProfessionalDevelopmentCourseinLiterary

CriticismandTheory(Oct.–Nov.1994)

MonashUniversity,SchoolsEnhancementProgram–CaulfieldGrammarSchool,Wheeler’sHill

Tutor(part-time)• ENH1010IntroductiontoEnglishLiterature• ENH1070PrimitivismandProgress(1995)

MonashUniversity,SchoolofComputerScienceandSoftwareEngineering

Tutor• CSC1050/CSE1305ProfessionalCommunications(casual,1996-99)

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SchoolandOtherTeaching

MountEvelynChristianSchool,full-time

• MiddleSchoolEnglishTeacher,1982• YearNineTeacherandCo-ordinator,1983-86 • SeniorEnglishTeacher,1987-91

EasternInstituteofTAFE[formerlyOuterEasternCollegeofTAFE,nowSwinburneUniversity](Croydoncampus)

ProviderandteacherofshortcoursesinCreativeWriting(14courses),andAdvancedWriters’Workshop(3courses),1991-1998

SpeakeratAlternativeLearningWeek,on‘WritingforChange’(21Sept.,1995).

TeacherofESLforOccupationalPurposes(Part-time,Casual,November–December1992)

LateralLearningPty.Ltd.(LaurisPandolfini)

SpeakeratseminarsforV.C.E.Englishstudents,onthemediaandpersuasivewriting,atM.L.C.,Melbourne(20March,17July1995)

DavidSymePty.Ltd.TheAgeEducationUnit

Educationofficer(casual,February–May1995;part-time,May–August1992)

Privatetutoring

Yr.12studentsofV.C.E.English(1994-97,2000).Varioustertiarystudents(2000-02).

OtherEmployment

MathesonLibrary,MonashUniversity:Conservatorandlibraryassistant,RareBooks(part-time,1976-78,1993-2002).GraduateLibraryAssistant,inCataloguing(Full-time,1978-79)

PhoebePublishing

Poetryassessment(casual,1997-98)

Prentice-HallPublishers:

Text-bookliaison(Part-time,September–October1993)

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MonashUniversity,SchoolofLiterary,VisualandPerformanceStudies

Administrativeofficer:ResearchPublications2000DataCollectionProject(Feb.–May2001)DepartmentalLibraryre-organisation(Oct.–Nov.2001)

TERTIARYEDUCATION

1994-2000 MonashUniversity,Melbourne(Claytoncampus),FacultyofArts.

DoctorateofPhilosophy.Thesis:‘InFullPossessionofthePresentMoment’:SamuelJohnson,Reading,andtheEveryday,submitted2October2000.

Supervisor:Prof.KevinHart.Examiners:Prof.GregClingham(BucknellUniv.,Lewisburg,Penn.),Prof.AlvaroRibiero(GeorgetownUniv.,WashingtonD.C.).QualifiedPh.D.,4October2001.Graduated21March2002.

1993 MonashUniversity(Clayton),FacultyofArts.

MasterofArts(English).Thesis:Reading“TheRambler”:Johnson’sEngagementwiththeAnxietiesofAuthorship.

QualifiedM.A.,withFirstClassHonours,10June,1994.Graduated5October,1994.

1992 MonashUniversity,FacultyofArts.

GraduateDiplomainArts(English).Qualified22January,1993.

1982-83 MonashUniversity,FacultyofEducation.

GraduateDiplomaofEducation:(DoubleEnglishTeachingMethod).Awarded1June,1983.

1974-78 MonashUniversity,FacultyofArts.

BachelorofArts(MajorinEnglish;MinorsinPhilosophy,LiteraryCriticism).Graduated6June,1979.

GRANTS,AWARDS,FELLOWSHIPS

2017.FactsandInventionssubmittedfortheBibliographicalSocietyofAmerica’ssixthtriennialWilliamL.MitchellPrizeforBibliographyorDocumentaryWorkonEarlyBritishPeriodicals/Newspapers,30Sept.2017.2017.AcademicVisitingScholar,UniversityofSt.Andrews,Scotland;sponsoredbyDr.

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TomJones,SchoolofEnglish.8May–10June,2017.2016.AppliedforFleemanFellowship,UniversityofSt.Andrews.2016.NominatedfortheTopLecturerinthe2016SummerSchoolTeachingAwards(emailfromShineadWilliamsdeBique,OtagoUniversityStudents’Association,12Feb.2016).2015.Nominatedforthe2015OUSATeachingAwards(emailfromPhilippaKeaney,OtagoUniversityStudents’Association,1Oct.2015).2015,July.AppointedasShort-termResearchFellow,theC.S.LewisStudyCentre,theKilns,Oxford.2015.Grantofmoneyfor3hours’researchassistanceinHampshireArchives.February,2012.HumanitiesResearchGrant,UniversityofOtago(indexpreparationforFactsandInventions:SelectedJournalismofJamesBoswell):$2,400.December,2011.FundingfromtheDepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofOtago,forresearchassistancefromDr.AustinGee:$2,245February2011.HumanitiesResearchGrant,UniversityofOtago(“UnrecordedIllustrationsforTolkien’sLordoftheRings”),subjecttoethicsapproval:$1,500August,2010.PBRFResearchOutputPublishingGrant:$875February2010.StrategicPBRFGrant,HumanitiesDivision,UniversityofOtago:$1,700February,2008.HumanitiesResearchGrant,UniversityofOtago(“EditionofSelectedJournalismofJamesBoswell”:$3000).March2006.TheFrederickA.andMarionS.PottleFellowshipinEighteenth-CenturyBritishStudies,awardedbytheBeineckeRareBookandManuscriptLibrary,YaleUniversity:coveredtraveltoandfromYale,amonth’saccommodation,andastipend.(ThisawardwastakenupinMarch2007.)2004.UniversityofOtagoResearchGrant,for“SelectedMinorWritingsofJamesBoswell”:$6,700Semester2,2004.AwardedfundingforteachingreliefinPublicationsRatingImprovementExercise,UniversityofOtagoJanuary–June,2001.JuniorHonoraryResearchAssociate,intheSchoolofLiterary,VisualandPerformanceStudies,MonashUniversity27July,1994.MonashGraduateScholarship(forthePh.D.)1993.(Australian)CommonwealthPost-GraduateHECSExemptionScholarship(fortheM.A.).[HECS=HigherEducationContributionScheme;i.e.,universityfees]

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PublicationsMONOGRAPHS

Published(3)FactsandInventions:SelectionsfromtheJournalismofJamesBoswell,editedbyPaulTankard,withtheassistanceofLisaMarr(NewHavenandLondon:YaleUniv.Press,2014).Tolkien:TheOfficialCalendar2015,illustratedbyMaryFairburn,textbyPaulTankard(London:HarperCollins,2014)SamuelJohnson’s“Designs”:AFacsimileoftheManuscript,withaNewTranscriptionandanIntroductoryEssay,byPaulTankard.PublishedastheAnnualKeepsake,bytheJohnsonians.NewYork,2008.ProposalundersubmissionSelectedJohnsonianEssaysofJ.D.Fleeman,ed.AnthonyW.LeeandPaulTankard.Proposalundersubmission.

REFEREEDARTICLES(22)

Submitted“‘AMusty[Literary]Extravaganza’:Dunedin’sRegentTheatre24-hourBookSale,”forScriptandPrint,submitted13February2017.“Johnson(andBoswell)intheLists:AViewofTheirReputations,1933-2014”(20,747words),submittedtoJackLynch,forTheAgeofJohnson,20February2017

“TolkienandtheIllustrators:TheCaseofMaryFairburn,”submittedafterrevisiontoDesdemonaMcCannon,fortheJournalofIllustration,3March2017.“SamuelJohnsoninhis‘MeridianSplendor’:TheGenealogyofaMetaphor,”submittedtoAliciaBlack,forNotesandQueries,3July2017.

“C.S.LewistheBlurb-writer:WithsomeMinorAdditionsandRe-AdmissionstohisBibliography,”submittedtoNotesandQueries,19February2017.

Forthcoming“‘AkintomyownInspiration’:MaryFairburnandtheArtofMiddle-earth,”forthcominginTolkienStudies,vol.14(2017),133-54;correctedproofstobereturnedby30July.2015“NineteenMoreJohnsonianDesigns:ASupplementto“‘ThatGreatLiteraryProjector’,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,v.23(2015),141-57.

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2014“WilliamEmpsononC.S.Lewis’sMemoryandReading,”NotesandQueries,vol.259,no.4;N.S.61:4(Dec.,2014),614-16.2012“Boswell,GeorgeSteevens,andtheJohnsonianBiographyWars,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,22(2012),73-95.2011“JohnsonandBrowneonLivingRich,”NotesandQueries,vol.256,no.3;N.S.58:3(3Sept.,2011),422-23.

“C.S.Lewis’sBrushwithTelevision,”TheJournalofInklingsStudies,1:1(March,2011),5-21;accompaniedby“C.S.Lewis,interviewedbyWaylandYoung,19January1962,”23-31.2009“ReferencePoint:SamuelJohnsonandtheEncyclopaedias:TheDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,2007,”Eighteenth-CenturyLife,33:3(2009),37-64.2008“JohnsonandtheWalkableCity,”Eighteenth-CenturyLife,32:1(Winter,2008),1-22.[NominatedfortheAmericanSocietyofEighteenth-CenturyStudiesannual“CliffordPrize”forbestessayonaneighteenth-centurytopic,2008.]

2007“DidacticPleasures:LearninginLewis’sNarnia,”SEVEN:AnAnglo-AmericanLiteraryJournal,v.24(2007),65-86.

2006“ReadingLists,”ProseStudies,28:3(December,2006),337-60.

2005“SamuelJohnson’sHistoryofMemory,”StudiesinPhilology,102:1(Winter,2005),110-42.2004“The‘GreatCham’andthe‘EnglishAristophanes’:SamuelJohnson,SamuelFoote,and‘HarmlessPleasure,’”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,15(2004),83-96. 2003

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“ContextsforJohnson’sDictionary,”Genre,35:2(Summer,2002),253-82.2002“Vive les Paratexts,” review essay, of Gerard Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds ofInterpretation (1997), Kevin Jackson, Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities(2000), and Anthony Rota, Apart from theText (1998), TheBibliographical Society ofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin,26:3&4(2002),195-219.“‘ThatGreatLiteraryProjector’:SamuelJohnson’sDesigns,orProjectedWorks,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,13(2002),103-180.2001“Coasts, Interiors, Islands: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Place,”TheCriticalReview, 41(2001),66-77.2000“AClergyman’sReading:BooksRecommendedbySamuelJohnson,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,11(2000),125-43.“FreeVerseandTraditionalForminEliot,LawrenceandHope,”AUMLA:JournaloftheAustralasianUniversitiesLanguageandLiteratureAssociation,93(May2000),37-50.“TheRambler’sSecondAudience:JohnsonandtheParatextual‘PartofLiterature’,”theBulletinoftheBibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealand,24:4(FourthQuarter2000),239-56.1999“APettyWriter:JohnsonandtheRamblerPamphlets,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,10(1999),67-87.1997“PocketsofWisdom,SamplesofText:RecentRevivalsoftheVerySmallBook,”BibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin,21:4(FourthQuarter,1997),226-44.“AnEmptyGesture:JohnAshbery’sFlowChart,”Meridian,16:1(May,1997),33-46.1994“Wilson’s‘Lewis’andWilson’sWilson:AMeditationonBiographyandMisreading,”JournalofMyth,FantasyandRomanticism,2:2(Spring,September,1993),29-33.

BOOKCHAPTERS(7)

Invited

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Submitted“‘TrytoResolveAgain’:Johnson’sJournalsandtheWrittenArtofEverydayLife,”forRe-evaluation:NewEssaysonSamuelJohnson,ed.AnthonyW.Lee(undersubmissiontoUniversityofDelawarePress).Submitted29March2017.

2015“SamuelJohnson,1709-84.”TheEncyclopediaofBritishLiterature1660-1789.GeneralEditors,JackLynchandGaryDay,3v.(Wiley-Blackwell,2015),2:646-54.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Encyclopedia-British-Literature-Wiley-Blackwell/dp/1444330209

“JamesBoswell,TheLifeofSamuelJohnson,”inC.S.Lewis’sList:TheTenBooksThatInfluencedHimMost,ed.DavidWertherandSusanWerther(NewYorkandLondon:BloomsburyAcademic,2015),pp.157-80.

http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cs-lewiss-list-9781628924145/

2012“‘AVeryAgreableWayofThinking’:DevotionandDoctrineinBoswell’sReligion,”TheologyandLiteratureintheAgeofJohnson:ResistingSecularism,ed.MelvynNewandGerardReedy,S.J.(Newark:Univ.ofDelawarePress,2012),237-54.

(Referee’sreport:“Tankardbeautifullyevokesthemixtureofweakness,confusion,andgeneralhumilitythatcomprisedBoswell’sreligiousfaith.”)

2011“Chapter22:Essays,”SamuelJohnsoninContext,ed.JackLynch(Cambridge:CambridgeUniv.Press,2012;inprintNovember2011),pp.191-99.2007“TheLion,theWitchandtheMultiplex,”FantasyFictionintoFilm:Essays,ed.LeslieStratynerandJamesR.Keller.Jefferson,N.C.:McFarland,2007.80-92.

2005“JohnsonandtheHotPotato:Scholarshipandthe‘ScienceofFables’,”inNewWindowsonaWoman’sWorld:EssaysforJocelynHarris,ed.ColinGibsonandLisaMarr(OtagoStudiesinEnglish,9),2v.DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofOtago(Dunedin,2005),I,336-50.1999

“TheMoralWriterandtheStrugglewithSelfhood:Lewis’s‘Screwtape’andJohnson’s‘Mr.Rambler’.”TheFantasticSelf:EssaysontheSubjectoftheSelf,ed.JaneenWebbandAndrewEnstice.EidolonPublications:NorthPerth,1999.206-213.

REVIEWSFORACADEMICJOURNALS(21)

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Forthcoming

SamuelJohnson:NewContextsforaNewCentury,ed.HowardD.Weinbrot(HuntingtonLibrary,2014),accepted12JulybyAndrewNash,forReviewofEnglishStudies

2017ReviewofTerryI.Seymour,Boswell’sBooks:FourGenerationsofCollectingandCollectors(NewCastle,DE:OakKnoll,2016),submitted10March2017toScriptandPrint.2015ReviewofEssayistsontheEssay:MontaignetoOurTime,ed.CarlH.KlausandNedStuckey-French(IowaCity:Univ.ofIowaPress,2012),ProseStudies,37:1(2015),92-95.ReviewofJacobSchriftman,TheC.S.LewisBookontheBible:WhattheGreatestChristianWriterThoughtAbouttheGreatestBook(Moonrise,2011),JournalofInklingsStudies,5:1(April,2015),155-57.

2014“‘MyJournalGoesCharminglyOn’:BoswellRe-Edited.”ReviewofJamesBoswell,LondonJournal1762-1763,ed.GordonTurnbull(London:PenguinBooks,2010),Eighteenth-CenturyLife,38:3(Fall2014),111-14.

2013ReviewofJonathanClarkandHowardErskine-Hill(eds.),TheInterpretationofSamuelJohnson,andThePoliticsofSamuelJohnson(PalgraveMacmillan,2012),TheReviewofEnglishStudies,v.64,no.267(November2013),897-900.

2011ReviewofUmbertoEco,TheInfinityofLists:FromHomertoJoyce(2009),forScriptandPrint,35:2(2011),120-22.2010ReviewofBerylBainbridge,AccordingtoQueeney(2001)inContemporaryLiteraryCriticism,v.292,ed.JeffreyW.Hunter(GaleCengageLearning:Detroit,August2010),12-13.[ReprintedfromQuadrant,2002]2009ReviewofPeterGilliver,JeremyMarshallandEdmundWeiner,TheRingofWords:TolkienandtheOxfordEnglishDictionary(2006),forSeven:AnAnglo-AmericanLiteraryJournal,v.26(2009),107-09.ReviewofWilliamGray,Fantasy,Myth,andtheMeasureofTruth:TalesofPullman,Lewis,Tolkien,MacDonaldandHoffman(2009),forTimesHigherEducation,no.1,899(4-10June,2009),53.

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ReviewofJohnMullen,Anonymity:ASecretHistoryofEnglishLiterature(2007),ScriptandPrint,33:3(2009),184-86.2008ReviewofJackLynchandAnneMcDermott,ed.,AnniversaryEssaysonJohnson’sDictionary(2005),TheReviewofEnglishStudies,59:241(September2008),633-36;doi:10.1093/res/hgn097

“InformationversusThought,”reviewofNeilPostman,BuildingaBridgetotheEighteenthCentury(1999)inContemporaryLiteraryCriticism,v.244,ed.JeffreyW.Hunter(Mar.2008),169-72.[ReprintedfromQuadrant,2001]

2007ReviewofHelenDeutsch,LovingDr.Johnson(2006),Biography,30.2(Spring2007),220-24.

2005ReviewofMichaelKeevak,ThePretendedAsian:GeorgePsalmanazar’sEighteenth-CenturyFormosanHoax(2004),TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,vol.16(2005),310-15.ReviewofDorisT.Myers,Bareface:AGuidetoC.S.Lewis’sLastNovel(2004)andPeterJ.Schakel,ImaginationandtheArtsinC.S.Lewis:JourneyingtoNarniaandOtherWorlds(2002),ReligionandLiterature,36.3(Autumn2004),93-100. 2004ReviewofHarrietKirkley,ABiographeratWork:SamuelJohnson’sNotesforthe“LifeofPope”(2002),TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,vol.15(2004),381-86.2002ReviewofJ.D.Fleeman,ABibliographyoftheWorksofSamuelJohnson(2000).BibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin,26:2(2002),69-75.1998ReviewofA.DavidMoody,ThomasSternesEliot,Poet-2ndedn.(1994)andTheCambridgeCompaniontoT.S.Eliot,ed.A.DavidMoody(1994).Colloquy2,Autumn1998,92-94.ReviewofFrederickG.RibbleandAnneG.Ribble,Fielding’sLibrary:AnAnnotatedCatalogue(1996).BibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin,22:3(ThirdQuarter,1998),178-81.1996ReviewofJohnsonandBoswell:TheTransitofCaledonia,byPatRogers(1995).Colloquy

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1,1996,87-88.ReviewofStudiesinBibliography,v.48,ed.DavidL.VandenMeulen(1995).BibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin20:3(ThirdQuarter,1996),232-35.1995ReviewofSamuelJohnson’sTranslationofSallust:AFacsimileandTranscriptionoftheHydeManuscript,ed.DavidL.VanderMeulenandG.ThomasTanselle(1993).BibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin18:1(SecondQuarter,1995),56-8.1994ReviewofDonaldD.EddyandJ.D.Fleeman,APreliminaryHandlistofBookstowhichDr.SamuelJohnsonSubscribed(1993).BibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealandBulletin18:1(FirstQuarter,1994),56-58.

OPINION-EDITORIALFEATURES,CREATIVENON-FICTION(27)

2017

“Leftandrightandallthatliesinbetween,”OtagoDailyTimes(Thurs.9March2017),13.“Whatarewordsworth?Morethanthemedium,”OtagoDailyTimes(Mon.2Jan.2017)“Payattentionoryoumaywakeupinadifferentworld,”OtagoDailyTimes(Tues.4July2017),9.2016“TrumpisthesurprisetheLeft’sbeenaskingfor,”OtagoDailyTimes(Thurs.14Dec.,2016),13.“Culturevisionmustbeshared:Humanitiesscholarsneedtocommunicatetheirvision,”OtagoDailyTimes(Mon.30August,2016),7.2014“Creditduewhenbadworkmangetsthejobdone,”OtagoDailyTimes(Fri.18July,2014),17.Lawnmower.

“Heateasiertobearthanpoorexcuseforsummer,”OtagoDailyTimes(Fri.7March,2014),11.

2013“It’s100%certain–there’snothinglikeanadvertisingslogan,”OtagoDailyTimes(Mon.19Aug.,2013),9.(ConcerningcontroversyovertheNZ“100%Pure”touristslogan,in

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wakeofFonterrabotulismscare.)2012“Creditwhereitisdue,”OtagoDailyTimes(Weds22May,2012),15.[Concerningresponsibleandirresponsibleownersofheritagebuildings.]2011“TheLostArtofReading,”TheTruthGame,bySimonCunliffe[theatricalprogramme],FortuneTheatre,Dunedin(7-29October,2011),14-15.2005“Unlikegraffitists,taggershavenothingtosay,”OtagoDailyTimes(3Nov.2005),17.

2003“There’smoretolifethanbuyingstuff,”Faithcolumn,TheAge(22Nov.2003),Insight,p.2.“Tributebandsmakeyouwonderifwe’lldoanythingnewagain,”OtagoDailyTimes,4-5October2003,56.“RetiredPoliticians,”TirraLirra(Autumn2003),11-12.“FrankLowy,PublicBenefaction,andtheUniversities,”TirraLirra13:1/2(Spring/Summer2003),36-37.2002“TheTriumphofBigBrother,”TheAustralian,11December2002,“HigherEducation,”27.“Thesinglebestwaytoavoidcommunity,”TheAge,6July2002,“Extra,”2.“Lessismore,inaworldaddictedtoshortcuts,”TheAge,9February2002,“Insight,”6.2001“What’sinaName?,”TheSundayAge,15April2001,“Review”10.“That’smyBay-beigh(orBeigh-b)”TheAge,10March2001,“Extra”2.“CanABCviewersalsobe‘bloodyidiots’?,”TheAge,23August2001,“GreenGuide”29.“Diminished,evenbeforetheTampa,”TheAge,5September2001,17. “ThesaddemiseoftackyoldChadstone,”TheAge,6December2001,15.“BroughttoBooks,”TheSundayAge,16December2001,14.

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1999“TheUnpronounceable,”TirraLirra9:2(Summer1998/99),26-29.“What’sLunchGottoDowithIt?,”TheSundayAge(12December1999),“Agenda”12.1997“StrangeLiaisons,”EurekaStreet7:6(July-August1997),15-16.1996

“AfterLiteracy:ReflectionsonthePost-LiterateSociety,”TirraLirra6:4(Winter1996),8-12.

LITERARYARTICLESandNOTES(innon-refereedpublications)(19)

2013“MisquotationsofJohnson,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXIV:1(March2013),46-47.2012“AVisionofMiddle-earth:MaryFairburn–TolkienIllustrator”[“Commentary”column],theTimesLiterarySupplement,no.5711(14Sept.2012),1,14-15.

“LevetIntelligence,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXIII:1(March2012),58-62.2011“ForbiddenArt:C.S.Lewis’sBrushwithTelevision”[“Commentary”column],theTimesLiterarySupplement,no.5632(11March2011),13-15.2010“Johnson’sAutobiography,TomTyers,andtheBishopofAvranches,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXI:2(September2010),37-42.“JohnsononBaldness,”JohnsonianNewsLetterLXI:1(March2010),12.“APseudonymousJohnsonAnthologist,”JohnsonianNewsLetterLXI:1(March2010),63-65[on“BrendaO’Casey,”a.k.a.ColinHaycraft].

2009“ReferencePoint:SamuelJohnsonandtheEncyclopaedias,”TheJohnsonSocietyofAustraliaPapers,v.11(2009),11-24.[EarlyversionofexpandedrefereedessayinEighteenth-CenturyLife,above.]“Johnsoniana,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,LX:1(March2009),23.(NoticeofallusiontoJohnsoninNZListener.)

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2008“GeorgePsalmanazar:TheFabulousFormosan,”inTheJohnsonSocietyofAustraliaPapers,v.10(August,2008),39-53.

2007“JohnsonatBaretti’strial,”JohnsonianNewsLetterLVIV[i.e.,LIX]:2(Sept.2007),15-18.2005

“C.S.Lewis–The‘Lion’Heart,”OtagoDailyTimes,3-4December2005,WeekendMagazine,8.“AMysterySolved:PaulTankardtracksdownstheSamuelJohnsonPrizeforNon-fiction,”TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.12,no.45(July2005),p.3.1997“AreShirt-PocketBooksJustNoveltyItems?,”AustralianBookReview,No.190(May,1997),55-56.“MaecenasandtheMinistry:JohnsonandhisPublishers,PatronsandthePublic,”JohnsonSocietyofAustraliaPapers1:1(1997),1-9.1995

“‘Keys’to‘Cure’LAP’s10%”,DirectionsinEducation,v.4.15(AustralianCouncilforEducationalAdministration,29Sept1995),1.1992“It’sallinyourreport,”TheAge“StudentUpdate”,15June1992,14-15.(AbouttheV.C.E.EnglishCommunicationProjectCAT[CommonAssessmentTask].)1983 “TheJoyofMiddle-Earth:TheAchievementofJ.R.R.Tolkien,”OnBeing,v.10,no.8(Sept.1983),18-19.“God’sLionofLiterature:ATributetoC.S.Lewis,”OnBeing,v.10,no.10(Nov.1983),15-16,41.

BOOKREVIEWSandREPORTS(innon-refereedpublications)(98)

2016ReviewofGrevelLindop,CharlesWilliams:TheThirdInkling(2105),ODT,17Dec.2016,“TheMix,”17.

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“OnestrictlyfortheGaimanfans,”ReviewofNeilGaiman,TheViewfromtheCheapSeats:SelectedNon-fiction(2016),OtagoDailyTimes,23July2016,“TheMix,”14.“Amusingbutnothisbestwork,”ReviewofUmbertoEco,NumeroZero(2015),OtagoDailyTimes,27February2016,“TheMix,”15.

2015ReviewofSteveBraunias,TheSceneoftheCrime:TwelveExtraordinaryTrueStoriesofCrimeandPunishment(2015),“2015’sMustReadBooks,asrecommendedbyourregularODTbookreviewers…,”OtagoDailyTimes,19December2015,“TheMix,”17.ReviewofLizWorkman,Dr.Johnson’sDoorknob:AndOtherSignificantPartsofGreatMen’sHouses(2007),JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXVI:2(September,2015),60-61.“FascinatingaccountofFrenchexplorer’slife,”reviewofEdwardDuyker,DumontD’Urville:ExplorerandPolymath(2014),OtagoDailyTimes,Sat.7Feb.,2015,“TheWeekendMix,”12.2014ReviewofJohnB.Radner,JohnsonandBoswell:ABiographyofFriendship(NewHaven:YaleUniv.Press,2012),JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXV:2(September,2014),46-49.

“JohnsonSocietyofAustraliaSeminarReport[2013],”JohnsonianNewsLetter,lxv:2(Sept.2014),29-30.“JohnsonSocietyofAustralia:TheDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,2013–KateBurridge,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,lxv:2(Sept.2014),31-32.2013“WitandScholarshipforthe19thFleeman”[report],TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.20,no.73(November2013),3.2012“TheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia:AnnualSeminar,2012”[report],JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXIII:2(September,2012),39-41.2011“The14thDavidNicholSmithConference,Melbourne,4-7July2011”[report],JohnsonianNewsLetterLXII:2(September2011),17-18.“TheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia17th[sic.18th]AnnualSeminar,Melbourne,9July2011”[report].JohnsonianNewsLetterLXII:2(September2011),18-19.

ReviewofSamuelJohnson,ConsolationintheFaceofDeath(PenguinBooks—“GreatIdeas,”2009),JohnsonianNewsLetterLXII:1(March2011),57-58.ReviewofPeterMartin,ed.,SamuelJohnson:SelectedWritings(BelknapPressofHarvard

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Univ.Press,2009),forJohnsonianNewsLetterLXII:1(March2011),58-60.“JohnsonSocietyofAustralia:SeventeenthAnnualSeminar,24July2010”[report],JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXII:1(March2011),27-29.“AnotherlookatBoswellontheGrandTour”:reviewofJamesBoswell,TheJournalofHisGermanandSwissTravels,1764,ed.MarliesK.Danziger(2008),theSouthernJohnsonian,v.18,no.65(April,2011),6,8.

2009“TheEnglishLanguageaccordingtoJohnson,”rev.ofSamuelJohnsonontheEnglishLanguage,ed.RobertDeMaria,Jr.,andGwinJ.Kolb(2005),TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.16,no.57(March2009),2.2008“TheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia:15thAnnualSeminar,Melbourne,7June2008”[report],JohnsonianNewsLetter,LIX:2(Sept.2008),15-17.“PuttingmoreDictionariesonthebookshelves,”reviewofJohnson’sDictionary:AnAnthology,ed.DavidCrystal(2005),TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.15,no.55(August2008),7-8.“ODTreviewerPaulTankardlistshisbestbooksof2007,”OtagoDailyTimes,Thurs.10Jan.2008,“SummerTimes,”21.2007“Anothertreasureofmythologyavailable,”reviewofJ.R.R.Tolkien,TheChildrenofHúrin(2007),OtagoDailyTimes,29Sept.2007,xx.“ForJohnsonandBoswell,Yale’sthePlace,”TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.14,no.42(Sept.2007),3.ReviewofHelenDeutsch,LovingDr.Johnson(2006),JohnsonianNewsLetter58,no.1(March2007):49–52.“Timeforauthortobeintransigent,”rev.ofEdwardW.Said,OnLateStyle(2006),OtagoDailyTimes,13-14January2007,“Weekend”54.

“ObscureJohnsonworkre-activatesYaleEdition,”rev.ofSamuelJohnson,ACommentaryonMr.Pope’sPrinciplesofMorality,orEssayonMan(ATranslationfromtheFrench),ed.OMBrack,Jr.(2004),TheSouthernJohnsonianv.14,no.50(Jan.2007),6-7.“Hornbyengagingasheshareshisjoyofreading,”rev.ofNickHornby,TheCompletePolysyllabicSpree(2006),OtagoDailyTimes,3-4March2007,“Weekend”56.“Bestofpopularhistoryandname-dropping,”rev.ofPaulJohnson,Creators:FromChaucertoWaltDisney(2006),OtagoDailyTimes,24-25March2007,“Weekend”56.“FlawsinCrystal’sripostetoTruss,”rev.ofDavidCrystal,TheFightforEnglish:How

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LanguagePunditsAte,ShotandLeft(2006),forOtagoDailyTimes,Sat.7July2007,“Weekend”50.

2006“JohnsonSocietyofAustralia,13thAnnualSeminar,Melbourne,16June2006”[report],JohnsonianNewsLetterv.LVII,no.2(Sept.,2006),27-28.ReviewofFossiskingforOldBooks,byAnthonyMarshall(2004),Biblionews,andAustralianNotes&Queries,32:3(Sept.2006),80-83.“DetailswampsstoryofRousseauandHume,”rev.ofRousseau’sDog:TwoGreatThinkersatWarintheAgeofEnlightenment,byDavidEdmondsandJohnEidinow(2006),TheOtagoDailyTimes,2-3Sept.2006,WeekendMagazine,6.Replytocorrespondentre.thisarticle,“BookReview,”TheOtagoDailyTimes,LetterstotheEditor,12Sept.2006,10.“InsultingWordsinJohnson’sDictionary,”rev.ofSamuelJohnson’sInsults,ed.JackLynch(2003),TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.13,no.48(Aug.2006),8.“Everyoneisinterestedinwords,sowhynotlearnfromanexpert?”,rev.ofWords,Words,Words,byDavidCrystal(2005),TheOtagoDailyTimes,20-21May2006,WeekendMagazine,6.“Complete,Affordable,ElectronicDictionary,”rev.ofSamuelJohnson’sDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguage(1755)onDVD/CD-ROM.OctavoEditions(Oakland,California,2005),TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.13,no.47(May,2006),8.“EcoonHimself,Others,”rev.ofOnLiterature,byUmbertoEco(2005),TheOtagoDailyTimes,15-16April2006,WeekendMagazine,8.“CriticalIntelligenceandaWryLookatHumanity,”rev.ofTheMeaningofRecognition:NewEssays,2001-2005,byCliveJames(2005),TheOtagoDailyTimes,28-29January2006,WeekendMagazine,6.2005“NewEditionofJohnson’sEssaysa‘Must’fortheNewcomer,”rev.ofSamuelJohnson,SelectedEssays,ed.DavidWomersley(2003),TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.12,no.46(Dec.2005),3.Reporton“JohnsonSocietyofAustralia:12thAnnualSeminar,Melbourne,May2005,”JohnsonianNewsLetterv.LVI,no.2(Sept.2005),24-26.ReviewofEnlighteningUpPostmodernism:SevenPastorides,byAlanT.McKenzie(2004),JohnsonianNewsLetterv.LVI,no.2(Sept.2005),43-45.ReviewofHesperusClassics(series),OtagoDailyTimes,3-4September2005,WeekendMagazine,10.“LetmeintroduceyoutoJohnson’sdictionary,”rev.ofDr.Johnson’sDictionary:TheExtraordinaryStoryoftheBookthatDefinedtheWorld,byHenryHitchings(2005),

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OtagoDailyTimes,20-21August2005,WeekendMagazine,8.

ReviewofC.J.Moore,InOtherWords(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,11-12June2005,WeekendMagazine,8.ReviewofPeterBowler,TheSuperiorPerson’sThirdBookofWords(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,11-12June2005,WeekendMagazine,8.“SelectionsfromBoswell,”rev.ofTheEssentialBoswell:SelectionsfromtheWritingsfromJamesBoswell,ed.PeterMartin(2003),TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.12,no.44(April2005),2.“Cliches,cantandjargon,nottomentionlanguagemostfoul,”rev.ofAccomodatingBrocolliintheCemetary:Or,WhyCan’tAnybodySpell?,byVivianCook;LanguageMostFoul,byRuthWajnryb:LarpersandShroomers:TheLanguageReport,bySusieDent;andWatson’sDictionaryofWeaselWords,ContemporaryClichés,Cant&ManagementJargon,byDonWatson(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,9-10April2005,WeekendMagazine,8.“TheNaturalHistoryoftheGalah,”rev.ofTheEncyclopaediaofStupidity,byMatthijsvanBoxsel(2004),Quadrant,no.413(XLIX:1-2),Jan.-Feb.,2005,115-17.“Selectiveinquiries,predictableresult,”rev.ofWelcometotheCampusofStruggle:DispatchesfromtheInternationalAcademicFront,1999-2004,byDavidCohen(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,29-30Jan.2005,WeekendMagazine,11.“Faith,hopeandclarityonaMuslimjourney,”rev.ofDesperatelySeekingParadise:JourneysofaScepticalMuslim,byZiauddinSardar(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,15-16Jan.2005,WeekendMagazine5.2004“Comingtothedefenceofthehumbleapostrophe,”rev.ofEats,ShootsandLeaves:TheZeroToleranceApproachtoPunctuation,byLynneTruss(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,10-11Jan.2004,48.Rev.ofTheSuperiorPerson’sSecondBookofWords,byPeterBowler(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,21-22Feb.2004.“TrackingHistoryofaDictionary,”rev.ofTheMeaningofEverything:TheStoryoftheOxfordEnglishDictionary,bySimonWinchester(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,28-29Feb.2004.“Howtoleadagoodlifehardtopindown,”rev.ofWhatisGood?TheSearchfortheBestWaytoLive,byA.C.Grayling(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,8-9May2004,“WeekendMagazine”3.“JohnsonSessionsatISECS2003,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,vol.LV,no.1(March2004),39-41.“ThisisDeathbyPollie-Waffle,”rev.ofDeathSentence:TheDecayofPublicLanguage,byDonWatson(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,Mon.28June2004,17.

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“Enemynotinonereligion,butinall,”rev.ofFundamentalism:TheSearchforMeaning,byMaliseRuthven(2004),OtagoDailyTimes,4-5Sept.2004,“WeekendMagazine”5.“TheParadiseLostathon:ASlightlyPersonalView,”Angles:DepartmentofEnglishNewsletter,Nov.2004,1-2.2003“Holidaytaleamixofthehigh-browandvulgar,”rev.ofLanzarote,byMichelHouellebecq(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,29-30Nov.2003,“WeekendMagazine,”8.“BoswelltheResearcher,”rev.ofMarshallWaingrow,ed.,TheCorrespondenceandOtherPapersofJamesBoswellRelatingtotheMakingofthe“LifeofJohnson”–2ndEdn.,correctedandenlarged(2001),TheSouthernJohnsonian,10:32[i.e.,10:3],October2003,6-7.“GeeringtextsfindnomiddleChristianground,”reviewofFundamentalism:Thechallengetothesecularworld,byLloydGeering(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,11-12October2003,53.“InfiltrationofAlQaedalackinginradicalinsights,”reviewofInsideAlQaeda:HowIinfiltratedtheworld’sdeadliestterrororganization,byMohamedSifaoui(2003),OtagoDailyTimes,4-5Oct.2003,49.“HighHopes,”reviewofHope:NewPhilosophiesforChange,byMaryZournazi(2002),EurekaStreet13:8(October2003),40-41.“ConferenceReport,”Angles:DepartmentofEnglishNewsletter(UniversityofOtago,NZ)10:4(Sept.2003),1.“TheBalmofBooks,”reviewofAPoundofPaper:ConfessionsofaBooksAddict,byJohnBaxter(2002),Quadrant,no.397(XLVII:6),(June2003),81-83.“BeingaboutThinking,”reviewof101ExperimentsinthePhilosophyofEverydayLife,byRoger-PolDroit(2002),EurekaStreet13:4(May2003),41.“TheTriumphofBigBrother,”Idiom:JournaloftheVictorianAssociationfortheTeachingofEnglish38:3(Dec.2002/Jan.2003),43-45.

2002“Bainbridge’sJohnson,”reviewofAccordingtoQueeney,byBerylBainbridge(2001),Quadrant,no.390(v.XLVI,no.10),October2002,83-84.“ChapterandVerse”(column),TheAge,28September2002,“SaturdayExtra,”7.ReviewofSamuelJohnson’sDictionary:Selectionsfromthe1755WorkThatDefinedtheEnglishLanguage,ed.JackLynch(2002).“The‘GreatCham’andthe‘EnglishAristophanes’:SamuelsJohnsonandFoote,”TheJohnsonSocietyofAustraliaPapers,6(2002),7-13.“NoveltreatmentofJohnson,”reviewofAccordingtoQueeney,byBerylBainbridge

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(2001).TheSouthernJohnsonian9:2(August2002),6-7.“Allinorder,”reviewofAbaza:AModernEncyclopedia:ANovel,byLouisNowra(2001).EurekaStreet,March2002.“SomeTypesofPleasure,”reviewofQuirkyQwerty:TheStoryoftheKeyboard@YourFingertips,byTorbjornLundmark(2001).Quadrant,May2002.2001“EveryoneinthisSocietyshouldreadthisbook,”reviewofAdamSisman,Boswell’sPresumptuousTask(2000).TheSouthernJohnsonian,8:3,September2001,6-7.“ReadingintoIt,”reviewofIntotheLooking-GlassWood,byAlbertoManguel(2000).EurekaStreet,May2001,36-37.“InformationversusThought,”reviewofBuildingaBridgetotheEighteenthCentury:HowthePastCanRenewtheFuture,byNeilPostman(2000).Quadrant,June2001,80-83.2000“ShouldYouWatchTelevision?,”reviewofShouldYouReadShakespeare?Literature,PopularCultureandMorality,byAnneWaldronNeumann(1999).Quadrant,No.363(XLIV:1-2),January-February2000,117-18.“ArtfulGatherings,”reviewof(andsoforth),byRobertDessaix(1998),Wormholes:EssaysandOccasionalWritings,byJohnFowles(1998),AdulteryandOtherDiversions,byTimParks(1999).EurekaStreet,10:2,March2000,38-40.“After30Years,theFleemanJohnsonianBibliography,”reviewofJ.D.Fleeman,ABibliographyoftheWorksofSamuelJohnson(2000).TheSouthernJohnsonian,November2000.“AllinTogether,”reviewofTipsfromaTravellingSoul-Searcher,byTimCostello(1999),ObservingAustralia:1959to1999,byK.S.Inglis,andGoatperson,andOtherTales,byMichaelLeunig(1999).EurekaStreet,December2000,38-40.1999“TheOddBroodingPresence,”reviewofTheBestAustralianEssays1998,ed.PeterCraven(1998).QuadrantNo.354(XLIII:3),March1999,78-79.“TheStudWithintheNog,”reviewofStudsandNogs:Essays,1987-98,byDavidFoster(1999).QuadrantNo.358(XLIII:7-8),July-August1999,113-25.1998“CultivatingtheProseSpirit,”reviewofTheOxfordBookofAustralianEssays,ed.ImreSalusinszky(1997).Quadrant,No.343(XLII:1-2),January-February1998,112-14.ReviewofC.S.Lewis:ACompanionandGuide,byWalterHooper(1996),andJack:ALife

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ofC.S.Lewis[-2ndedn.],byGeorgeSayer(1997).OnBeingALIVENo.2,March1998,62-63.“TheInwardMuse,”reviewofNavelGazing:Essays,half-truthsandmysteryflights,byPeterGoldsworthy(1998).EurekaStreet8:4,May1998,47.“EssayswithaJohnsonianfeel–byaJohnsonian,”reviewofLinesofFire:ManningClarkandOtherWritings,byPeterRyan(1997).TheSouthernJohnsonian5:4,August1998,11.“Notcomplicated,notcontroversial,notenough,”reviewofSamuelJohnsonandtheEssay,byRobertSpector(1997).TheSouthernJohnsonian5:4,August1998,8.“RoomforAmateurs,”reviewofSeamsofLight:BestAntipodeanEssays,ed.MoragFraser(1998).QuadrantNo.350(XLII:10),October1998,81-83.ReviewofWouldYouBelieve?AustralianDialoguesonFaithandDoubt,byJamesMurray.TheMelbourneAnglican,November1998,17.“Beginner’sguidetotheGreatCham,”reviewofTheSamuelJohnsonEncyclopedia,byPatRogers(1996).TheSouthernJohnsonian6:1,November1998,6.“N.B.,”reviewofTheFootnote:ACuriousHistory,byAnthonyGrafton(1997).QuadrantNo.352(XLII:12),December1998,82-84.1997“TongueTwisting,”reviewofTheSearchforthePerfectLanguage,byUmbertoEco(1995).QuadrantNo.333(XLI:1-2),January—February1997,113-15.“Headspace,”reviewofTheSizeofThoughts:EssaysandOtherLumber,byNicholsonBaker(1997).EurekaStreet,7:9,November1997,44-45.1996“TheCurseoftheSelf-Absorbed,”reviewofBoredom:TheLiteraryHistoryofaStateofMind,byPatriciaMeyerSpacks(1995).Quadrant323(XL:1-2),January-February1996,118-19.“JohnsonPreface,”reviewofThomasM.Woodman,APrefacetoSamuelJohnson,byThomasM.Woodman(1993).TheSouthernJohnsonian,3:2(March1996),7.“TotheUncommonReader,”reviewofTheGutenbergElegies:TheFateofReadinginanElectronicAge,bySvenBirkerts(1994).Quadrant328(XL:7-8),July-August1996,100-2.1995“AdoctrinestraightoutoftheArk,”reviewofTellingLiesforGod:ReasonvsCreationism,byIanPlimer(1994).EurekaStreet5:1,January—February1995,47-48.“Meaningsthataren’ttrue,”reviewofSlavesofChic:AnA-ZofConsumerPleasures,by

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JoanneFinkelstein(1994).Quadrant,316(XXXIX:5),May1995,81-83.“LuckyDips,”reviewofTextandSex,byDonAnderson,480WordsonAnything,byDavidDale,TheFloralMother,byKateLlewellyn.EurekaStreet5:7,September1995,43-44.1994“HowtolaunchthebuddingJohnsonian”,TheSouthernJohnsonian,2:3[i.e.,2:1](September,1994)“AbasicreadinglistforthebuddingJohnsonian”,TheSouthernJohnsonian,2:2(December,1994)N.d.ReviewofDaleC.Willard,MySon,MyBrother,MyFriend:ANovelinLetters(1995),inOnBeingMagazine.

EXHIBITIONS/CATALOGUES

“ScholarlyFavourites:ResearchinginSpecialCollections,”UniversityofOtago,June2016;contributionontheGentleman’sMagazine,inexhibitioncatalogue[byDonaldKerr]andcabinetnotes.“SamuelJohnson,1709-2009:LifeandAfterlife,”anexhibitionattheReedGallery,DunedinPublicLibrary(7August–1Nov.,2009),co-curatedwithAnthonyTedeschi.SamuelJohnson,1709-2009:LifeandAfterlife[exhibitioncatalogue],withAnthonyTedeschi.HeritageCollections,DunedinPublicLibraries:Dunedin,NZ,2009.“Introduction,”toEnglishLiteratureto1800:AnexhibitionofbooksfromtheMonashUniversityLibraryCollection,1Augustto2December2002,[exhibitioncatalogue]byRichardOverell.MonashUniversityLibraryRareBooks,2002.“Introduction,”toMagazines[exhibitioncatalogue],byRichardOverell.MonashUniversityLibraryRareBooks,2002.

EDITING

Angles:TheNewsletteroftheDepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofOtago,2004–.TheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Papers,v.1-15(Melbourne,1997-2013).PeterSteele,FlightsoftheMind:JohnsonandDante.JohnsonSocietyofAustralia(1997).CliveProbyn,‘PallMallandtheWildernessofNewSouthWales’:SamuelJohnson,WatkinTenchand‘Six’DegreesofSeparation.JohnsonSocietyofAustralia(1998).NicholasHudson,JohnsonandtheMacquarie:AnInvestigationof250Years’ProgressinLanguageandLexicography.JohnsonSocietyofAustralia(1999).

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JohnWiltshire,JaneAusten’s‘DearDr.Johnson.’JohnsonSocietyofAustralia(2001).“IndextoSEVEN,vols.1-32(1980-2015),”publishedat:http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/seven/sevenvolumes.htm.UpdatedJuly2016.KateBurridge,“MagnificenceofPromises”:SamuelJohnsonandAdvertising–TheDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,2013(JohnsonSocietyofAustralia:Melbourne,2017).

REFEREEINGRefereeforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,invitedonbehalfofStevePincus(editor)byAmyDunagin,email16May2017.(Anarticleentitled“Dr.Johnson’sPalliativeCare:SellingDissipationinTheLifeofSavage”)Submitted15June.RefereeforEighteenth-CenturyLife,invitedbyeditor,CedricD.Reverand,Jr.(UniversityofWyoming),August2014.(“JohnWolcotand‘TheAnecdoticItch’:PeterPindar,BiographyandtheDilemmaofHistoriographyinthe1780s”)RefereeforCollegeLiterature:AJournalofCriticalLiteraryStudies,invitedbyElizabethAlexLukens(WestChesterUniversity),Nov.2013.(“ThepostcolonialhumanismofSamuelJohnson”)RefereeforTheAgeofJohnson,invitedbyeditor,JackLynch(RutgersUniv.),February2013.(AnthonyW.Lee,“Johnson,Newton,andthe‘EqualMotion’ofPoliteness”)ReportforPalgraveMacmillan,onproposalforSkyMarsen,ProfessionalWriting–3rdedition,July2012.RefereeforTheScottishLiteraryReview,invitedbySarahDunnigan(Univ.ofEdinburgh),March2011.(JamesCaudle,“ThreeNewJamesBoswellEssaysfromThePublicAdvertiser,1763”)RefereeforTheJournalofUrbanHistory,invitedbyeditor,DavidGoldfield(Univ.ofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte),November2010,revisionFebruary2011.(GöranRydén,“ViewingandWalking:SwedishVisitorstoEighteenth-CenturyLondon”)RefereeforEighteenth-CenturyLife,invitedbyeditor,CedricD.Reverand,Jr.(UniversityofWyoming),June2008.(LanceBertelsen,“TheEnormousFourColumns:LiteralandCulturalSpaceintheLondonDailyNewspaper,1760-70”)RefereeforReligionandLiterature(UniversityofNotreDame),invitedbySiânWhite,ManagingEditor,July2007.(“C.S.Lewis’sNarniaandtheApologeticTradition”)ReportforPalgraveMacmillan,onSkyMarsen,ProfessionalWriting–2ndedition(2007),July2006.

CONFERENCES,PAPERSPRESENTED

2016

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“Book/Place/Event:Dunedin’sRegentTheatre24-hourBookSale”:paperpresentedattheOtagoCentrefortheBookannualseminar,“BookandPlace,”Friday28October,OtagoMuseum,Dunedin.Co-convenor,withPatrickSpedding,of“MarginalNotes:SocialReadingandtheLiteralMargins”–one-dayconferenceandmasterclass,attheStateLibraryofVictoria,Melbourne,co-hostedbyCentrefortheBookUniversityofOtago,CentrefortheBook,MonashUniversity,andtheStateLibraryofVictoria,FridaySept.23,MondaySept26,2016.

2015“SamuelJohnsonasanAnnotatorofShakespeare,”English/LinguisticsDepartmentSeminar:Fri.4Sept.2015,UniversityofOtago.“JohnsonasaFootnoter:NecessarilyEvil?”JohnsonandShakespeare2015,PembrokeCollege,Oxford(7-9August,2015).Sat.8Aug.“AftertheDeath,BeforetheLife:JohnsoninthePress,1784-91,”theDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,Melbourne,17October2015.“TheFantasticTurn:Or,howtwoold-fashionedOxfordDonsareshaping21st-centuryChildren’sFiction”,paperfor“ASenseofWonder:Reading,WritingandIllustratingChildren’sLiterature,”UniversityofOtagoCentrefortheBookSymposium,Dunedin,12-13November2015.2014

“AnonymousCelebrity:NewspapersandtheInventionofthePublicFigure,”paperpresentedatIdeasandEnlightenment:TheLongEighteenthCentury:DavidNicholSmithSeminarinEighteenth-CenturyStudiesXV,UniversityofSydney,Dec.2014“TolkienandHisIllustrators,”paperpresentedatArt+Book/AgainsttheOdds,DunedinSchoolofArts/OtagoCentrefortheBookSymposium,16-18October,2014.“MarginalComments:TeachingtheInvisibleGenresofCreativeNon-fiction,”papergivenatProfessingCreativity:TeachingCreativeWritinginAotearoa,WellingtoncampusofMasseyUniversity,12-14Feb.,2014.Presented13Feb.AlsochairedsessiononCriticalCreativities,14Feb.2012Invitedspeaker,on“TheInfluenceonC.S.LewisofBoswell’sLifeofSamuelJohnson,”presentedat“TheTenBooksthatMostInfluencedC.S.Lewis,”conference,Madison,Wisconsin,18-20October2012.ConvenedbytheC.S.LewisSocietyofMadison,Wisconsin,andtheBradshaw-KnightFoundation.PaperpresentedattheWadeCenter,WheatonCollege,Illinois,15October2012.“AMiddle-agedMoralist”EnglishDepartmentalseminar,UniversityofOtago,14Sept.2012.

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2011“AnonymityandthePress:TheCaseofBoswell,”paperpresentedat14thDavidNicholSmithConference,Melbourne,Australia,4-7July2011.Presented5July.(EarlierversiongivenatEnglishDepartmentalseminar,UniversityofOtago,27May2011.)

“‘AVeryAgreableWayofThinking’:Boswell,ReligionandSeriousness,”papergivenatGlobalScots:ATwo-daySymposium,hostedbytheCentreforIrishandScottishStudies,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin,23-24Feb.2011.2010“JamesBoswell,Newspaperman,”paperto17thannualseminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,24July2010,Melbourne.“JamesBoswellinGrubStreet,”papertostaffseminar,DepartmentofEnglish,MonashUniversity,Melbourne,3August2010.2009“GeorgeSteevensandtheBiographyWars,”paperpresentedat“Johnsonat300”conference,HoughtonLibrary,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,Massachusetts,27-29August2009.AlsogivenasEnglishDepartmentalSeminar,UniversityofOtago,17Sept.2009.2008“MediaBias:TheLimitationsofParticularMediumsandGenresintheArts,”talkatOtagoPolytechnicSchoolofArts,6November,2008.“BoswelltheJournalist,”paperpresentedatEnglishDepartmentalSeminar,UniversityofOtago,9May2008.2007“ReferencePoint:SamuelJohnsonandtheEncyclopaedias,”The14thDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,2007.TheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia.Melbourne,15September2007.TheabovepaperalsopresentedatEnglishDepartmentalSeminar,UniversityofOtago,5Sept.2007.MemberoforganisingcommitteeforXIIIthDavidNicholSmithSeminarinEighteenth-CenturyStudies:RewritingtheLongEighteenthCentury,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin,NewZealand,10-14April2007.“HesterThraleonJohnson:LiterallyWritingintheLiteralMargins”–paperpresentedattheaboveconference,14April.2006

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“HolinessandLearningNewEmotionsinNarnia,”presentedat“C.S.LewisToday”Conference,NewCollege,UniversityofNSW,Sydney,5May2006.2005“TheTenthMuse:E.V.LucasandA.G.GardinerandtheFateoftheEssayist,”presentedtoDep’tofEnglishSeminar,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin,30Sept.2005.“ReadingJohnson’sDictionary,”presentedat12thAnnualSeminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Melbourne,28May2005.

2004“GeorgePsalmanazar–TheFalseFormosan,”presentedatthe11thAnnualSeminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Melbourne(19June2004)2003Invitedpanellist,“WhataPostGradtoDo?”at‘OpenBook’:PostGraduateStudiesinEnglishandLinguisticsconference,UniversityofOtago(21October2003)“RamblingthroughSpace,IdlingthroughTime,”presentedatpanelon“JohnsonandtheGlobalisationofLiterature,”theASECS/ISECS11thInternationalCongressontheEnlightenment,attheUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles(6August2003),alsoatanEnglishdepartmentalseminar,UniversityofOtago,30May2003.2002“JohnsonandMemory,”presentedatthe9thAnnualSeminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Melbourne(18May2002),alsoatanEnglishdepartmentalseminar,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin,NewZealand(25October2002).2001Panellist(invited),“GettingPublished:AStudent’sApproach,”presentedatFacultyofArtsseminarseries,“TricksoftheTrade:ResearchTrainingandProfessionalSkillsforCommencingandContinuingHigherDegreeResearchCandidates,”MonashUniversity(7August2001).“TheRespectableHottentot,TheElegantSavage,”presentedattheXIthDavidNicholSmithConference,“TheExoticDuringtheLongEighteenthCentury(1660-1830),”NationalLibraryofAustralia,Canberra(26-28March2001).“The‘GreatCham’andthe‘EnglishAristophanes’:SamuelsJohnsonandFoote,”presentedatthe8thAnnualSeminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Melbourne(7July2001). 2000Panellist(invited),“‘Finishing’theThesis,”PostgraduateColloquium,SchoolofLiterary,Visual&PerformanceStudies,MonashUniversity,Melbourne(23-24October2000).

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1996AttendedtheXthDavidNicholSmithSeminar:‘MarginsandtheMetropolis:Literature,CultureandScience,1660-1830,’NationalLibraryofAustralia,Canberra(2-5July1996).“MaecenasandtheMinistry:JohnsonandhisPublishers,PatronsandthePublic”:paperpresentedatthe3rdAnnualSeminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Melbourne(13July1996).Attended‘AnAgeofReason?Re-thinkingtheEighteenthCentury,’aconferencesponsoredbytheDepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofMelbourne(26-27July1996).“ReadingLists”:paperpresentedat‘SexLiesVideos&Texts’–EnglishPostgraduateConference,MonashUniversity(15-16November1996).1995“WritingtheEveryday:JohnsonandthePeriodicalEssay”:paperpresentedtoDepartmentalSeminar,EnglishDepartment,MonashUniversity(4September1995).“DistortingFrames:Johnson’sRambleranditsSecondAudience”:paperpresentedatEnglishPostgraduatesConference,LaTrobeUniversity(28-29September1995).1994“TheMoralWriterandtheStruggleforSelf-hood:SamuelJohnsonandC.S.Lewis”:paperpresentedat10thAnnualConferenceoftheMythopoeicLiteratureSocietyofAustralia,NewmanCollege,Melbourne(2July1994).1993Organiserofhalf-dayconferenceonC.S.Lewis,atRidleyCollege,Melbourne(21November1993).“TheJurassicJournalismofC.S.Lewis”:paperpresentedataboveconference.

PUBLICTALKSANDPRESENTATIONS

“WhatMattersaboutReading,”U3AWanaka(UpperClutha),13October2017,aspartofseries“HumanCommunicationandHumanity:LanguageMatters.”InvitedbyElisabethMuir,TimHerrick“AnIntroductiontoJaneAusten-hertimes,herlife,herworks,herlegacy,”JaneAusten200Dunedin,5.30pmTuesday12September,2017,Burns2LectureTheatre,AlbanySt“TolkienandtheVisualImagination,”seminarforpostgraduatestudentsoftheInstituteforTheology,ImaginationandtheArts,SchoolofDivinity,St.Mary’sCollege.HostedbyDrJudithWolfe.Friday26May,11-12.45.InformaltalkonworkingintheFleemanarchive,SpecialCollections,UniversityofSt.

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AndrewsLibrary.HostedbyDr.TomJones,fortheEighteenthCentury/Romantic/Victorianresearchgroup.TheStephenBoydRoom,KennedyHall,SchoolofEnglish.Tuesday,30May2017,1-2.Speakerat“InsidetheNobel:Otagoacademicsexplainthisyear’sNobelPrizes,”8Dec.2016,hostedbytheOtagoInstitutefortheArtsandSciences,attheOtagoMuseum.Presentationon2016NobellaureateinLiterature,BobDylan.“Poets:DeadorAlive,”convenorandhostofeventforNationalPoetryDay,2016,intheLink,UniversityofOtago,1-2.00pm.,Friday26September2016.“InConversation:RickGekoski,Bookman,”PublicInterviewwithDr.RickGekoskiforWorldBookDay,OtagoCentrefortheBookandDunedinCityofLiterature,UniversityofOtago,3March2016.“LordoftheRings:TheLostPictures,”PublictalkattheDunedinPublicLibrary,6.00p.m.,12Dec.,2012.“SamuelJohnson:HisFriendsandClubs,”talktoStonningtonMen’sProbusClub,26June2012.Reprisedat19thAnnualseminaroftheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia,Melbourne,7July2012.ThreetalksonC.S.Lewis,theUniversityoftheThirdAge,Dunedin.5,12,19Sept.2012.

“JamesBoswellandtheNewspapers,”fortheDunedinPublicLibraryAssociation,8June2011.“Eros:ANewDiscoveryaboutC.S.Lewis,”DunedinPublicLibrary,5.30p.m.,29April2011.“HowtoGiveAdvice:SamuelJohnsonandtheEssay,”HumanitiesOpenLecture,UniversityofOtago,29Sept.2009.Talkatopeningofexhibition,“SamuelJohnson,1709-2009:LifeandAfterlife,”ReedGallery,DunedinCityLibrary,6August2009.AvailableonYou-Tube.

ReadingsfromSamuelJohnson’sPoetryandProse,SkeggsGallery,DunedinMunicipalChambers,10Sept.2009.HostedbyDunedinCityLibraries.ReadingsbyKenSmith(UniversityofBradford,UK):Poetry,andPaulTankard(UniversityofOtago):Prose“LiteraryHoaxesandForgeries,”twolecturesfor“FakingIt,”coursecoordinatedbyRossGrimmett,TheUniversityoftheThirdAge,Dunedin,11,18July2007.

“LiteraryHoaxesandForgeries,”lecturefor“FakingIt,”coursecoordinatedbyRossGrimmett,TheUniversityoftheThirdAge,Dunedin,15March2006.Addressattheopeningof“‘£100&aButtofSackYearly’:TheOfficeofthePoetLaureate,”exhibitionatSpecialCollections,CentralLibrary,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin,11April2005.“HostagePact:ThePowerDynamicbetweenArtandCriticism,”talkfor“RefreshingthePallet”GroupShow(artexhibition),RetortArtspace,Dunedin,12March2005.

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Panellist(invited),“CriticalFutures:ReadingandReviewing”atthe“ReadingMatters:‘BookingtheFuture,’”ConferenceorganizedbytheYouthLiteratureProgramatSt.Martins,Melbourne(15-16March1997).

FILMREVIEWS

2002“TheLordoftheRings:TheFilmortheBook?”Quadrant,May2002,67-70.2001“Raisingclichéstothelevelofart(almost),”reviewofMoulinRouge!(dir.BazLuhrmann,2001).TirraLirra10:4(Summer2001),35.1998“ItLooksBig,andItLooksDeep,”reviewofTitanic(dir.JamesCameron,1997).TirraLirra8:2,3(Summer/Autumn,1998),36-37.1996“What’sBad’sGood,”reviewofEdWood(dir.TimBurton,1994).TirraLirra,6:2&3(Summer/Autumn1996),52-53.“AnExplorationofDecency,”reviewofFargo(dir.JoelandEthanCoen,2006).TirraLirra,7:1(Spring,1996),38-39.1995“TheDaggy,thePlayfulandtheLunatic,”reviewofMuriel’sWedding(dir.P.J.Hogan,1994)andTomandViv(dir.BrianGilbert,1994).TirraLirra:TheAustralianindependentcontemporarymagazine5:2(Summer,1994/95),26-27.“ThisisYourLife,”reviewofForrestGump(dir.RobertZemeckis,1994).TirraLirra,5:3(Autumn,1995),13-14.1994“C.S.LewisintheShadowlandsAgain,”reviewofShadowlands(dir.RichardAttenborough,1993).Quadrant309(XXXVII:9),September1994,47-51.

BROADCAST

2015“Mary’sMiddle-earth,”interviewonNightswithBryanCrump,RadioNewZealandNational,Monday19January2015,7.12p.m.(19’52”).

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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/20164086/mary%27s-middle-earth2012“LiteraryDetective,Dr.PaulTankard,”interviewonAfternoonswithJimMora,RadioNewZealandNational,Tuesday18September2012,2.10to2.26p.m.(15’15”).<iframesrc="http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/remote-player?id=2532771"width="100%"frameborder="0"height="62px"></iframe>2003“SamuelJohnson’sDictionary,”Ockham’sRazor,ABCRadioNational,Sunday6thJuly(8.45–9a.m.),2003.Transcriptat:http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s892411.html

REVIEWED/CITED/ACKNOWLEDGED/INTERVIEWED/QUOTED

FactsandInventions14ReadingLists13WalkableCity11‘GreatLiteraryProjector’11HistoryofMemory9GreatCham7DidacticPleasures7PettyWriter6Rambler’s2ndAudience3ReferencePoint3Steevens3Lewis’sListessay2Clergyman’sReading2Lion,WM2Browne2SamuelJohnson’s“Designs”2“19MoreDesigns”2TLSTolkien,1“VeryAgreable”1CSL’sBrushwithTV1SJ’sAutobiog.,1ElizabethBishop1Pockets12017GeorgeE.Heggarty,“RecentStudiesintheRestorationandEighteenthCentury,”SELStudiesinEnglishLiterature1500-1900,57:3(Summer2017),pp.645-696.

LoversofJamesBoswellwillbethrilledtoseeFactsandInventions:Se[le]ctionsfromtheJournalismofJamesBoswell,editedbyPaulTankard.Hereistheindefatigablerecordernowrangingovertopicsinperiodicalpublication.Thevolumeisbeautifullyandeffectivelyedited,andeventhetableofcontentsoffers

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aconvenientwaytosampleBoswell’swritings.ThisisaveryfineeditionandawelcomeadditiontotheBoswellcorpus.(660-61)

KateBurridge,“MagnificenceofPromises”:SamuelJohnsonandAdvertising(JohnsonSocietyofAustralia(TheDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,1013;Melbourne,2017).ThanksforreferringhertotheBurneyCollectionNewspapers,1n.2.

HanlyBanksCallahan,SmokeSignals:UnderstandingthePsychologicalImpactsofIntangibleInformation(ThesisforMAinCounselingPsychology,PacificaGraduateInstitute,March2017),349.Qts.“ReadingLists”

LiteraryhistorianPaulTankard(2006)wrotethatanindexasan(albeitinstitutionalized)shortcut,isalwayssubversive;itsuggeststhepossibilityofavoidingtheauthor’sprose,ofunderminingthelinearityofthetext,ofre-writingit(p.349).

JonathonLookadoo,ReviewofLewis’sList,inReviewsinReligionandTheology,v.24:2(2April2017),392-94.

Tankard’sanalysisofSamuelJohnson’simpactonLewisdoesasuperbjobofshowingtheawarenessoftheaudiencedemonstratedbythesetwolearnedmenintheirdidacticwritings.HegoesontoarguethatthesuccessofbothJohnsonandLewisintheirmoralwritingsstemsfromtheirabilitytoconvincereadersoftheproblemsthattheywerefacingineverydaylanguage.(p.393)

MarkPike,“EducationinTheAbolitionofMan,”inContemporaryPerspectivesonC.S.Lewis’‘TheAbolitionofMan’:History,Philosophy,Education,Science,ed.TimothyMosteller,GayneJohnAnacker(Bloomsbury,2017),47-62.Qts,cites“DidacticPleasures,”53,62.

2016JarndyceAntiquarianBooksellers,London.Catalogueentryfor:TheLondonChronicle:or,UniversalEveningPost.Vol.XIII,no.940,Dec.30-Jan.1,1763-Vol.XX,no.1565,Dec.27-30,1766.618issuesin8vols.QtsFactsandInventions.PaulSabonadiere,lettertotheeditor,OtagoDailyTimes(17Dec.,2016),.ContrastMillieLovelock’scolumnoflastweek;concludes,“StandinginstarkcontrasttothispuerileofferingisPaulTankard’sforensicanalysisoftherelativistZeitgeistwhichhelpedtospawnTrumpism.IhopethereisplentymoretocomefromthebrilliantDrTankard.”OskarCoxJensen,NapoleonandBritishSong,1797-1805(PalgraveMacmillan,2016),Ch.2:54n.69,212;alsoNotesandBibliog.Qts.FactsandInventions,235,re“hethathasthebestwife”.OMBrack,Jr.,andRobertDeMaria,Jr.,ed.,BiographicalWritings:Soldiers,Scholars,andFriends,bySamuelJohnson.“TheLifeoftheEarlofRoscommon,”255n.1.CitesSamuelJohnson’s“Designs”and“‘ThatGreatLiteraryProjector’.”RobertDeMaria,Jr.,“FromtheEditor,”TheJohnsonianNewsLetter,67:2(September2016).MentioninthankstoDepartmentforhospitalityinApril.JohnGibb,“ConferenceexaminesDunedininpoetry,”OtagoDailyTimes(Sat.29October

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2016),10.ReportonCentrefortheBook“BookandPlace”symposium;mentionsmegivingtalkonRegent24-HourBookSale.KevinGilvary,“WhoWrotethefirstShakespeareBiography?ItwasnotNicholasRowein1709!,”BriefChroniclesVII(2016),15n.14.MentionofmyhavinginformedhimofJohnson’sprojectedlifeofShakespeare.RonaldK.Huch,ReviewofFactsandInventions,TheHistorian,78:3(Fall,2016),593-94.Fiveparagraphreview.

…amonumentaltaskrequiringadecadetocomplete.Therevieweris,therefore,happytoreportthattheresultwaswellworththeeffort.

JackLynch,YouCouldLookItUp:TheReferenceShelffromAncientBabylontoWikipedia(NewYork:Bloomsbury,2016),421.Bibliography,includes“ReadingLists.”JackOrchard,“DrJohnsononTrial:CatherineTalbotandJemimaGreyRespondingtoSamuelJohnson’sTheRambler,”Women’sWriting23:2(2016),193-210;qts.“APettyWriter,”194.NickyPage,“GuestEditorial,”inForewordtoBookBound!Hamblyn’sofficialguidetothesecond-handbookshopsinandaroundOtago,FiordlandandSouthland,byMikeHamblyn(Dec.2016);qts[asyetunpublished]articleaboutRegentBooksale.PittSpecialCollections,UniversityofPittsburghLibrary,JamesBoswell,BiographerandDiarist(2016),exhibitionnotes.ListsFactsandInventionsasaresource.http://pitt.libguides.com/c.php?g=583163&p=4033945

CorrinaReadioff,“JohnsonandShakespeareatPembrokeCollege,”JohnsonianNewsLetterLXVII:1(March2016),25-27;“Equallyengagingwasthesucceedingpanelthatfocussedonprintculture,andwhichincorporatedafascinatingdiscussionofJohnsonianparatextbyPaulTankard”(26).JoshuaRiddiford,“ADayforPoetry,”TheStar(1September2016),10;withphoto.AndreaSchlotthauer,comp.“NewPublications,”ScottishStudiesNewsletter,46(March,2016),74;merelyreprintsblurbforF&I.

JasonScott-Warren,“EarlyModernBookkeepingandLife-WritingRevisited:AccountingforRichardStonley,”PastandPresent,230:supplement11(Nov.2016):TheSocialHistoryoftheArchive:Record-KeepinginEarlyModernEurope,151-170;vid.157n.28.Cites“ReadingLists.”

TerryI.Seymour,Boswell’sBooks:FourGenerationsofCollectingandCollectors(2016);generalacknowledgement,21;FactsandInventions,cited76n.80;inbibliography,p.517.TheEighteenth-CenturyIntelligencer(March2016),61.

AnothernoteworthyadditiontoscholarshipinthevolumeisPaulTankard’ssupplementtohis2002AgeofJohnsonstudy(13:103-80):“NineteenMoreJohnsonianDesigns:ASupplementto‘ThatGreatLiteraryProjector.’”

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ChrisAckerleyandDavidLarge,IntroductiontoMalcolmLowry,The1940UndertheVolcano:ACriticalEdition(2015);generalacknowledgement.

EleanorAingeRoy,“Blogsre-awakeningreaderstoessays,”TheStar(3September,2015),20.Qtdfrominterview;pluspicture.DouglasA.Anderson,TolkienandFantasy[website],“FiveNotesonC.S.Lewis,”quotesN&Q.http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.co.nz/2013/11/five-notes-on-cs-lewis.html#comment-formCeliaBarnes,“‘AMorbidOblivion’:SamuelJohnson,JamesBoswell,andRememberingNottoForget,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,23(2015),1-19.QtsHistoryofMemory,5,13.RhonaBrown,“‘RebelliousHighlanders’:TheReceptionofCorsicaintheEdinburghPeriodicalPress,1730-1800,”StudiesinScottishLiterature,41:1(2015),108-28.F&Icited125,andnn.1,6,70.MichaelGavin,TheInventionofEnglishCriticism:1650–1760(CambridgeUP,2015),194,notes.CitesF&I,withlengthyqt.fromIntro.AnthonyW.Lee,“Editing,Editions,EssaysandLives:Johnson,Boswell,andOtherUsual/UnusualSuspects,”rev.ofFactsandInventions,withtwootherworks.TheEighteenth-CenturyIntelligencer,n.s.29:1(March2015),43-50.

…Wehavewithinthisbook’sambitaconvenientandwell-annotatedarchivethatwillbeusefultosocialhistorians,tostudentsofBoswellandJohnson,andperhaps,asTankardspeculativelyhopes,tothecommonreader.…FactsandInventionsconstitutesamajorcontributiontoBoswellianstudies.….Tankard’seditionmakesaccessibleajostlingbuffetofculturalobservations,self-promotingpuffs,jeud’espritoftheimagination,legalreports,culturalcelebrations,…publicjoustingwithliteraryfoes…Therichmenuofmaterialsultimatelycoalesceintoarichragoutthatshouldsatisfythetastesofanyandallstudentsoftheperiod.

JamesCaudle,“JamesBoswell,”inTheEncyclopediaofBritishLiterature1660-1789,ed.GaryDay,JackLynch(2015),152,citesFactsandInventions.KevinGilvary,“WhoWrotethefirstShakespeareBiography?ItwasnotNicholasRowein1709!,”BriefChroniclesVII(2016),15n.4.

SirJohnHawkins,TheLifeofSamuelJohnson,LL.D.(London:Chambers,1787),440.IamindebtedtoDr.PaulTankardoftheUniversityofOtagoforbringingthisallusiontomyattention.Thecriticismin1762hadbeenmadebyCharlesChurchill:“Heforsubscribersbaitshishook/andtakesyourcash,butwhere’sthebook?”TheGhost,London,i.800-801.

WayneG.HammondandChristinaScull,“AddendaandCorrigendatoTheJ.R.R.TolkienCompanionandGuide(2006)Vol.2:Reader’sGuide”(http://www.hammondandscull.com/addenda/guide.html).Updated31March2015to

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includerefstoTLSarticle_________,“AddendaandCorrigendatoTheJ.R.R.TolkienCompanionandGuide(2006)Vol.1:Chronology”(http://www.hammondandscull.com/addenda/chronology.html)

JacobSiderJost,ReviewofFactsandInventions,JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXVI:1(March2015),56-57.

AstheeditorofFactsandInventions,Tankardgetsitright,bothdrawingonandcontributingtoourstorehousesofBoswellianerudition.Hegiveshisreaderalucidandintelligentintroductiontoeighteenth-centuryjournalismingeneral.…Tankardhasassembled[…]ajudiciousselection,deftlyorganisedandannotatedformaximumreadability.Thisentertainingvolumeandusefulvolumewillfurnishpleasuretoreadersandinformationtoscholarsandteachers.

JohnMagoun,“TheYear’sWorkinTolkienStudies2012:ReceptionandAdaptationStudies,”TolkienStudies,v.12(2015),199-247;par.devotedtoTLSTolkienessay,245-46.

MuchmoreinterestinglyinthefieldofillustratingTolkien,PaulTankardin“AVisionofMiddle-earth:MaryFairburn,TolkienIllustrator”(TimesLiterarySupplement,Sept.14,2012:14–15)givesanintriguingaccountofFairburn,anobscureartistwhosepicturessopleasedTolkienthathehadhopesofseeingtheminanauthorizedillustratededitionofTheLordoftheRings.Circumstancespreventedthisduring[EndPage245]hislifetime,butinthebesttraditionofeucatastrophe,Tankard’sdetectiveworkhasblessedthenowagedillustratoras“Tolkien-approved,”andthe2015TolkienCalendarbyHarperCollinsfeaturesFairburn’spaintings.OnemayseeinthemaclosecorrespondencebetweenherstyleandthatofTolkien’sownillustrations:anemphasisonlineandformintheArtsandCraftstradition,mutedcolorsandlighting,andagreaterassurancewithlandscapesandnaturalobjectsthanwiththehumanfigure.

EleanorHerseyNickel,“WhinerorWarrior?SusanPevensie’sRoleintheNovelandFilmVersionsofTheChroniclesofNarnia,”inC.S.LewisandtheInklings:ReflectionsonFaith,ImaginationandModernTechnology,editedbySalwaKhoddam,MarkR.Hall,JasonFisher(CambridgeScholars,2015),quotes“Lion,Witch,andtheMultiplex”271n.1.MarkA.Pike,EthicalEnglish:TeachingandLearninginEnglishasSpiritual,MoralandReligiousEducation(Bloomsbury,2015),94,223.Qts,cites“DidacticPleasures.”JohnB.Radner,ReviewofFactsandInventions,TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,23(2015),349-58.K.W.Schweizer,ReviewofFactsandInventions,Eighteenth-CenturyScotland,No.29(Spring,2015),35-36.

Thisengaging–evenentertaining–anthology[…]performsavaluableservicetoBoswellianscholarship.…shouldbeacquiredbyanylibrary,scholar,orevengeneralreaderinterestedinBoswelland/ortheAugustansocialandliteraryscene.

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GordonTurnbull,“YaleBoswellEditionNotes,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,Lxvi:2(Sept.2015),mentionsessayonBoswell’sLifeofJohnson,inLewis’sList;41.RobertG.Walker,“Boswell’sReferencetoErasmusonhisFearofDeath,”NotesandQueries,2015.doi:10.1093/notesj/gjv033.SolvesaprobleminFactsandInventions,363.

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AlexanderAdams,“Boswell’sPostcardsfromaHanging,”Sp!ked(September2104).ReviewofFactsandInventions.http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/boswells-postcards-from-a-hanging/15759#.VBfsG-AsoxhNinaC.Ayoub,“WeeklyBookList,June13,2014,”TheChronicleofHigherEducationWashington(Jun9,2014).F&Iverybrieflynoted.WilliamBaker,“BibliographyandTextualCriticism,”YWES,93(2014),1225,mentionof“Essays,”inLynch,JohnsoninContext.WilliamBaker,“BibliographyandTextualCriticism,”YWES,93(2014),1224,mentionof“Boswell,GeorgeSteevens…”inAofJ,22.RobertDeMaria,Jr.,“SamuelParr’sEpitaphforJohnson,HisLibrary,andHisUnwrittenBiography,”EditingLives:EssaysinContemporaryTextualandBiographicalStudiesinHonorofOMBrack,Jr.,ed.JesseG.Swan(Lewisburg:BucknellUniversityPress,2014),85.Quotes“Johnson’sAutobiography,”JNL.SteveDonoghue,“BookReview:FactsandInventions,”OpenLettersMonthly:AnArtsandLiteratureReview(July,2014).http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-facts-and-inventions/

immediately-indispensible…TankarddoesareadablyeruditejobkeepinghisreadersuptospeedonthedozensofsquibsandscenesandscandalsBoswellcoversinthesepages…alllovinglycontextualized(therearevirtuosostretcheswhereTankardisessentiallyprovidingaportraitofthepressofanentireera)andnotated...anexcellentsamplingofthewritingthatmeantthemosttoBoswellonaday-to-daybasis.

BarryBaldwin,“ToppingUptheTankard,”JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXV:1(March2014),49-50.[responsetonoteon“MisquotationsofJohnson”]RobertDeMaria,Jr.,“PaulTankard,ed.:FactsandInventions:SelectionsfromtheJournalismofJamesBoswell”[“apreview”],JohnsonianNewsLetter,LXV:1(March2014),58-60.

“Theaimofthisbook,”saysPaulTankardinhisPreface,“istopresenttoamodernreadershipalargesampleofafascinatingandoverlookedbodyofwritingbyamajorcanonicalauthor”(xvii).Itisdifficulttoimagineamoreprofoundrecommendationofanewbook,andTankardachieveshisloftygoal….

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BrianHurwitz,“UrbanObservationandSentimentinJamesParkinson’sEssayontheShakingPalsy(1817)”,LiteratureandMedicine(2014Spring):74-104,n.49.Cites“WalkableCity.”TimLacy,TheDreamofaDemocraticCulture:MortimerJ.AdlerandtheGreatBooksIdea(PalgraveMacmillan,2014),261.Cites“ReadingLists.”LyndaMugglestone,“RangingKnowledgebytheAlphabet:TheLiteratureofCategorizationandOrganization,1700-1830,”ACompaniontoBritishLiterature:VolumeIII:LongEighteenth-CenturyLiterature,ed.RobertDeMaria,Jr.,HeesokChang,andSamathaZacker(Chichester:WileyBlackwell,2014).Quotes“HistoryofMemory,”207,210.MagdalenaOżarska,LaceworkorMirror?DiaryPoeticsofFrancesBurney,DorothyWordsworthandMaryShelley(CambridgeScholars,2014),284.Cites“HistoryofMemory”

MarkA.Pike,“C.S.Lewis:ChristianEducatorforaPost-ChristianEra,”Sehnsucht:TheC.S.LewisJournal,v.7and8(2013-14),62-88,vid.69n.34.Cites“DidacticPleasures”SethRudy,LiteratureandEncyclopedisminEnlightenmentBritain:ThePursuitofCompleteKnowledge(PalgraveMacmillan,2014).Cites“HistoryofMemory,”239.

KatarinaStenke,“TheEighteenthCentury:GeneralandProse,”YWES,93(2014),mentionof““AVeryAgreable…,”542.

Counteringcurrentemphasisonthe(mis)representationofJohnson’sreligiousbeliefsinBoswell’sLife,PaulTankard’sessayfocusesinsteadonBoswell’sdoctrinalexperimentation,arguingthat‘Boswell’sfaithwasanabidingaspectofhispsychologyandself-perception’(p.237).

KatarinaStenke,“TheEighteenthCentury:GeneralandProse,”YWES,93(2014),mentionof“Boswell,GeorgeSteevens…,”557.

PaulTankardwriteson‘Boswell,GeorgeSteevens,andtheJohnsonianBiographyWars’(AgeJ22[2012]73–95),andarguesthecaseforattributingmuchofthebiographicalmaterialpublishedinSt.James’sChronicleinJanuary1785tothescholarGeorgeSteevens.

JimMcLaverty,“AddendaandCorrigendatoJ.D.Fleeman’sABibliographyoftheWritingsofSamuelJohnson,1731-1984.”Website,updatedFebruary2014.CitedreselectionsfromeditionofShakespeare(65.10SP/S),“DebatesinParliament,”missingfromGM(41GM11),andCrousazonPope,theCommentary(39.10CP/1)andtheExamen(missing).

2013AndrewBurstein,LincolnDreamtHeDied:TheMidnightVisionsofRemarkableAmericansfromColonialTimestoFreud(NewYork:PalgraveMacmillan,2013).“HistoryofMemory,”cited283n.18.

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LucyCollins,“TheRoadDivides:ThomasKinsella’sUrbanPoetics,”inPoetry&Geography:Space&PlaceinPost-warPoetry,ed.NealAlexanderandDavidCooper(LiverpoolU.P.,2013);n.20,cites“WalkableCity.”

LynnFreeman,“ThePastandFutureoftheSchoolJournal,”TheArtsonSunday,RadioNewZealandNational(8Sept.2013),qtdfromemail.LauraHewson,“LiteraryDetective,”UniversityofOtagoMagazine,35(June,2013),20-22.FrancesPheasant-Kelly,FantasyFilmPost9/11(PalgraveMacmillan,2013),90.Qts“Lion,WitchandMultiplex.”MarkA.Pike,MereEducation:C.S.LewisasEthicalteacherforourTime(Cambridge:LutterworthPress,2013),Ch.1n.16;notes154,bibliog.183.Cites“DidacticPleasures.”

JonathanLamb,“RecentStudiesintheRestorationandEighteenthCentury,”StudiesinEnglishLiterature,1500-1900,53.3(Summer2013),667-737.Fromaparon“Boswell,Steevens,”Lambwrites,“PaulTankardofferssomeusefulinformationonthebackgroundtothepublicationofanecdotesandotherbiographicalmaterialfollowingJohnson'sdeathin1784”(pp.709).TimLacy,TheDreamofaDemocraticCulture:MortimerJ.AdlerandtheGreatBooksIdea(PalgraveMacmillan,2013).Intro.,qts.“ReadingLists”DanielSmith,“MaryFairburn,theLostTolkienArtist,”BeyondBree:TheNewsletteroftheTolkienSpecialInterestGroupofAmericanMensa(April2013),1-2.YaleUniversityPress.WebpageforJamesBoswell:TheJournalofHisGermanandSwissTravels,1764(2008).QtsmyreviewinSouthernJohnsonian.2012JackLynch,“Preface,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,22(2012),ix(andblurb).“PaulTankard’sdetailedarchivalworkonthesquabblesamongJohnson’searlybiographersinthepresscontinue[s]toextendtheboundariesofknowledgeonJohnsonhimself.”ThomasF.Bonnell,ed.,JamesBoswell’sLifeofJohnson:AnEditionoftheOriginalManuscript,inFourVolumes,v.3:1776-1780(NewHaven:YaleUniv.Press,2012),220n.5.CitesmyN&QarticleonSJandBrowne.GregClingham,“DeliriousGod:Text,Book,andLibraryintheWorldofSamuelJohnson,”inKevinL.CopeandRobertC.LeitzIII,ed.,TextualStudiesandtheEnlargedEighteenthCentury:PrecisionAsProfusion(BucknellU.P.2012),266.Referstothe“illuminatingdiscussion”in“ThatGreatLiteraryProjector”.BabakFozooni,“ThePoliticsofEncyclopaedias,”JournalforCriticalEducationPolicyStudies,10.2(2012):314-344.Twiceqts“ReferencePoint,”319,320.

JohnGibb,“‘LordoftheRings’paintingsunearthed,”OtagoDailyTimes(18Sept.,2012),1,3.“Lost‘Ring”illustrationstrackeddownbyNZresearcher,”NewZealandHerald(18

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Sept.,2012),A18.“HopesTolkienfindwillhavespin-offforartist,”GisborneHerald(20Sept.,2012),29.“LordoftheRingspaintingsunearthed,”GreymouthStar(18Sept.2012),5.DeeHeddon,“Turning40:40Turns:WalkingandFriendship,”PerformanceResearch,17:2(2012),67-75.Cites“JohnsonandtheWalkableCity,”69n.7.CharlesHuttar,“LetGrillbeGrill:TheMetamorphosisofRabadashandOthers,Seven:AnAnglo-AmericanLiteraryReview,vol.29(2012),17-38.Cites“DidacticPleasures,”35n.20.MikeHoulahan,“DrawingsUnearthed,”D-Scene(5Dec.2012),11.Rpt.SouthlandTimes,14Dec.2012.DanHutchinson,“ImagesofferinsightintoTolkien’smind,”TheStar(6Dec.2012),2.JohnMcVey,SyllabusforGraphicDesignGD212:Typography1,Fall2012,MonserratCollegeofArt.“ReadingLists”asettext,anddescribedas“Highlyrecommendedandentertaining.”JimMora,“AfternoonswithJimMora,”RadioNewZealandNational,7May2012.Qtd.fromemailretourismofNewZealand,predictedtoresultfromforthcomingmoviesofTolkien’sTheHobbit.DeviNoronha,interviewerandreporterforsegmentreTolkienandthereleaseofthefilmTheHobbit:AnUnexpectedJourney,onNineLocalNews.ChannelNineDunedinTelevision,Weds.28November,2012.

MarkPike,“‘TheTreesofKnowledgeandLifeGrowingTogether’intheEducationalVisionofC.S.Lewis:WhyMedwayandStevensareAlmostRightAboutEnlightenmentandRomanticValuesinEnglish,”ChangingEnglish:StudiesinCultureandEducation,19:2(2012),249-259,DOI:10.1080/1358684X.2012.680761.Citesandqts“DidacticPleasures,”p.256.

MurrayPittock,“BoswellandtheMakingofJohnson,”inJ.C.D.ClarkandHowardErskine-Hill,ed.,TheInterpretationofSamuelJohnson(PalgraveMacmillan,2012),79,83.Refersto“WalkableCity.”WesleyRaabe,EnglishDepartment,KentStateUniversity.“ReadingLists”asettextforENG66101(16Feb.2012),Spring2012.GöranRydén,“ViewingandWalking:SwedishVisitorstoEighteenth-CenturyLondon,”TheJournalofUrbanHistory,XX(2012),pp.1-20.“JohnsonandtheWalkableCity”isqtd.p.3,11,andnn.5,8,51(alsothankedinmyroleasanonymousreferee).UrsStaeheli,“Listingtheglobal:dis/connectivitybeyondrepresentation?,”Distinktion:ScandinavianJournalofSocialTheory,Vol.13,No.3,December2012,233–246.Refersto“ReadingLists,”p.240.RosemarySweet,CitiesandtheGrandTour:TheBritishinItaly,c.1690-1820(CambridgeU.P.,2012),276n.28.Ref.to“WalkableCity”.

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DonnaThomas,“Localartistnotedfor‘LordoftheRings’sketches,”CastlemaineMail(2Nov.2012),7.Tolkienillustrationworknoticedon30+websites.ShirleyF.Tung,“SomeCurrentPublications,”Restoration:StudiesinEnglishLiteraryCulture,1660-1700,36:2(Fall,2012),71-96;notes“LivingRich,”p.74.

2011JamesBaker,IsaacCruickshankandtheNotionofBritishLiberty(thesis,Univ.ofKent,2011),cites“WalkableCity”JanetBrennanCroft,Mythlore30:1/2(Fall/Winter2011).

…JIShasscoredabitofacoupwithitsinitialissue,printingsomehithertounpublishedLewismaterial.PaulTankard,followingupaleadinthepapersoftheatrecriticandproducerKennethTynan(whohadbeenLewis’sstudentatOxford),givesus‘C.S.Lewis’BrushwithTelevision’.

JamesJ.Caudle,“ThreeNewJamesBoswellArticlesfromThePublicAdvertiser,1763,”ScottishLiteraryReview,3:2(Autumn/Winter,2011),19-43.ReferstomyforthcomingFactsandInventions,pp.19,30,andalsoacknowledgesmyadviceinn.70.MartinKrickl,“DieListenRabelais’undFischarts:AnnäherungenaneinearabeskeTextstruktur”(Mag.Phil.diss.,U.Wein,2011).Quotes“ReadingLists”,pp.74n.28,83&n.64,88n.84,88,161n.141.

JohnGibb,“ScholarFindsTranscriptofRareC.S.LewisInterview,”OtagoDailyTimes(12March2011),29.DonaldKerr,TheGentleman’sMagazine:The18thCenturyAnswertoGoogle[exhibitioncatalogue],SpecialCollections,UniversityofOtagoLibrary(2011).Assistanceacknowledged.AnthonyW.Lee,DeadMasters:MentoringandIntertextualityinSamuelJohnson(LeHighUniv.Press,2011),ackn.p.xii;“TheGreatCham…”citedp.215.GradyLoy,“EarlyKingsofWessex,”Genealogy.com(2010).Qts“HistoryofMemory”JackLynch,“StudiesofJohnson’sDictionary,1955-2009:ABibliography,”JohnsonAfterThreeCenturies:NewLightonTextsandContexts,ed.ThomasA.HorrocksandHowardD.Weinbrot(2011),88-131.Includesfiveessaysandreviewsofmine(Hitchings,Yale18,Lynch,Lynch,Genre;andomitsthree).“ScholarFindsRareC.S.LewisInterviewTranscript,”LivingtheLegacyofC.S.Lewis(website),11March2011.www.cslewis.org“TheLine,theSearchandtheInterview,”OtagoBulletin,issue7(21April2010),10.ArticleaboutmyLewisinterview.TeganMcKnight,“Otagoscholarfindshis'holygrail',”TeWahaNui(June2011).[AUT’s

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studentnewspaper]MaryKatherineMason(M.A.thesis:GeorgiaStateUniversity),“ImitationistheSincerestFormofComedy:FindingtheHumorinRasselasthroughEcclesiastes,”EnglishTheses,Paper113.http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/113.Cites“AClergyman’sReading,”pp.21-22,n.5.ElizaO’Brien,“TheEighteenthCentury:GeneralandProse,”TheYear’sWorkinEnglishStudies,90:1(2011),552-99.Says,re“ReferencePoint”:“PaulTankardtracesreferencestoJohnsonandcritiquesofhisworkineighteenth-centuryencyclopaedias,examiningtheconstructionofhisreputationandthecontemporaryresponsestohismanywritings”;p.555.

2010

ACaseforLiterature:TheEffectivenessofSubsidiestoAustralianPublishers,1995–2005.ReportpreparedfortheLiteratureBoardoftheAustraliaCouncilbyDrKathMcLeanandDrLouisePolandwithadditionalresearchbyJacintavandenBergonbehalfoftheWritingandSocietyResearchGroupUniversityofWesternSydney(AustralianGovernment/AustralianCouncilfortheArts,May2010).ReviewofSeamsofLight(Quadrant,Oct.1998)qtd.pp.57-58.JamesW.Caudle,“EditingJamesBoswell,”TheAgeofJohnson:AScholarlyAnnual,vol.21(2010).MentionsFactsandInventionsasforthcoming.BrianChappell,“Year-EndFictionFavorites:2010,”THEthePoetry[weblog].Cites“ReadingLists.”GregClingham,“ScarceBooksandElegantEditionsattheWeinbergMemorialLibrary[Univ.ofScranton,Pennsylvania],”JohnsonianNewsLetter,Lxi:1(March,2010),p.44andn.4,mentionsDPLexhibitionandcatalogue.WilliamGray,Fantasy,Myth,andtheMeasureofTruth:TalesofPullman,Lewis,Tolkien,MacDonaldandHoffman(PalgraveMacmillan,rpt.2010).MyTHESreviewofthebookquotedonrearcover.TimLacy,“Tim’sLightReading:AnExcellentQuoteontheInternet,Reading,andIndexing,”U.S.IntellectualHistory:TheBlogoftheSocietyforU.S.IntellectualHistory(2Dec.,2010).Quotesfromp.351ofmy“ReadingLists.”AnthonyW.Lee,“MentoringandMimicryinBoswell’sLifeofJohnson,”TheEighteenthCentury,51:1-2(2010),67-88.Cites“The‘GreatCham’andthe‘EnglishAristophanes’,”at83n.18.JimMcLaverty,“AddendaandCorrigendatoJ.D.Fleeman’sABibliographyoftheWritingsofSamuelJohnson,1731-1984.”Website,updated18October2010.Citedat54GM24,retherepublicationofJohnson’s“LifeofCave”inthesecondeditionoftheBiographiaBritannica.

ThomasMcLean,ed.,FurtherLettersofJoannaBaillie(2010),generalacknowledgementJohnMcVey,“Lists”(24April2010),DesignStories[weblog].MonserratCollegeofArt.

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Quotesandcites“ReadingLists”WarrenL.Oakley,ACultureofMimicry:LaurenceSterne,HisReadersandtheArtofBodysnatching(London:MHRA,2010).Cites“GreatCham,”26andn.57,142.ElizaO’Brien,“TheEighteenthCentury:GeneralandProse,”TheYear’sWorkinEnglishStudies(March2010),9.

InthewintereditionofEighteenth-CenturyLifePaulTankard,in‘JohnsonandtheWalkableCity’(ECLife32:i[2008]1–22),providesathoughtfulaccountofJohnsonandthemetropolisandthelimitsofindividualindependence,aswellasanexaminationofJohnson’sphilosophyofwalking.MuchasareaderencountersJohnson’sthoughts‘throughmiscellaneousencounters’(p.2)sotoo,inTankard’saccount,doesJohnsonhimselfexperiencethecity.

MartynPowell,“EighteenthCentury:(i)BritishHistory,1714-1815,”AnnualBulletinofHistoricalLiterature,94:1(Dec.,2010),82-102.Cites“JohnsonandtheWalkableCity”(p.84).“ReadingList:TheHistoryofReading,”ReadingExperienceDatabase[website](23Nov.2010,OpenUniversity).My“ReadingLists”iscitedamongtitlesoftextsthat“makeagenuinecontributiontothehistoryofreadingasadiscipline.”ShefRogers,“AlexanderPope:PerceivedPatron,MisunderstoodMentor,”inMentoringinEighteenth-CenturyBritishLiteratureandCulture,ed.AnthonyW.Lee(Ashgate,2010).51-61.Generalacknowledgement,51.MalcolmSmuts,ed.,Politics,LiteraryCulture&TheatricalMediainLondon:1625-1725(website).Univ.ofMassachusetts(n.d.).Cites“JohnsonandtheWalkableCity”

DougalStevenson,interviewre.Johnson’sDictionary,DunedinDiary,1Dec.2010.Channel9DunedinTelevision.AnthonyTedeschi,“BetweentheCovers:NewlyDiscoveredJohnsonianProspectuses,”JohnsonianNewsLetterLXI:2(September2010),43-5.Generalacknowledgement,43n.1.2009OMBrack,Jr.,ed.,TheLifeofSamuelJohnson,LL.D.,bySirJohnHawkins,Knt.(Univ.ofGeorgiaPress,2009).“‘ThatGreatLiteraryProjector’”andSamuelJohnson’s“Designs”cited387n.199.JamesJ.Caudle,ed.,TheJohnsonianainBoswelliana(TheJohnsonians:HoughtonLibrary,Harvard,2009).Generalacknowledgement,80.GregClinghamandPhilipSmallwood,ed.,JohnsonAfter300Years(CambridgeUniv.Press:Cambridge,2009).ListedasFleemanlecturer,272;threearticles(GreatCham,WalkableCity,HistoryofMemory)listed,283,among“someofthemainworkswithwhichastudentandscholarofJohnsonwouldhavetoengage”(276).ThomasM.Curley,SamuelJohnson,theOssianFraud,andtheCelticRevivalinGreat

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BritainandIreland(CambridgeUniv.Press,2009),267n.38.Cites“GreatLiteraryProjector.”“SamuelJohnson,”NB:DunedinPublicLibrariesMagazine,issue6(Sept.-Oct.,2009),6-7.“DictionaryAuthorCelebrated,”OtagoBulletin,issue15(7August2009),5.BenjaminHeller,LeisureandPleasureinLondonSociety,1760-1820:AnAgent-centredApproach(KebleCollegeDPhilinhistoryTrinityterm2009).“WalkableCity”citedp.98nn.73,74.

JohnLewis,“DunedinExhibitionofJohnson’sWork,”TheOtagoDailyTimes,6August2009,17.IncludesphotobyPeterMcIntosh.InterviewsreJohnson’sDictionarywithDougalStevenson,DunedinDiary,5August,16Sept.,2Dec.,2009.Channel9DunedinTelevision.ChristopherVilmar(SalisburyUniversity),“ThreehundredevenattheAntipodes,”PerplexedwithNarrowPassages[internetblog],14August2009.AnappreciationofmytalkattheopeningoftheDPLJohnsonexhibition,seenonYou-Tube:“PaulTankard,averyaccomplishedJohnsonian,introducingJohnson’slastingappealastheresultofbeingaprofoundthinkeronveryordinary,everydaythings.”JohnWiltshire,TheMakingofDr.Johnson:IconofModernCulture.HelmInformation,2009.Generalacknowledgement,xi;the(forthcoming)FactsandInventionscited,82and267.2008KatherineEllison,“JamesBoswell’sRevisionsofDeathas‘TheHypochondriack’andinHisLondonJournals,”Eighteenth-CenturyFiction21:1(Fall,2008),37-59.“SamuelJohnson’sHistoryofMemory”citedp.42n.14.T.J.Gardner,“SmokeBrighteningintoFlame”:AnArgumentfortheCohesivenessofSamuelJohnson’sRambler.M.A.dissertation,GeorgetownUniversity,2008.Variouscitationsof“APettyWriter”SusanLever.DavidFoster:TheSatiristofAustralia(CambriaPress,2008),215.Citesreview,“TheStudwithintheNog”PeterMartin,SamuelJohnson:ABiography.WeidenfeldandNicolson:London,2008.Cites“APettyWriter,”481n.4.GeorgeThomas,ReviewofGod,Man&Hollywood:PoliticallyIncorrectCinemafromTheBirthofaNationtoThePassionoftheChrist,byMarkRoydenWinchell(2008),Quadrant(Sept.2008).CitesmyShadowlandsessay.2007TimCooper,“RichardBaxterandhisPhysicians,”TheSocialHistoryofMedicine20:1(April,2007),1-19;generalackn’t,p.17.

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JohnK.Hale.“Milton’sTitles,”EarlyModernLiteraryStudies13.1(May,2007)4.1-42.Endnote1:generalackn’t.JamesM.Kushiner,“Seven’s24th,”3Dec.2007,MereComments:TheTouchstoneMagazineBlog.Precisof“DidacticPleasures”NicolaK.Learmonth,“DivineGloryunderScrutinyinParadiseRegained,”Milton,RightsandLiberties,ed.ChristopheTournuandNeilForsyth(Bern:PeterLang,2007),401-13.Generalackn’t,401.AnthonyW.Lee,ReviewofBoswell’sAccountofCorsica[etc.],ed.JamesT.BoultonandT.O.McLoughlin(OxfordU.P.,2006),inTheEighteenth-CenturyNovel,forthcoming.MentionsmyBoswellproject.JackLynch,“TheDignityofanAncient:JohnsonEditstheEditors,”ComparativeExcellence:NewEssaysonShakespeareandJohnson,editedbyEricRasmussenandAaronSantesso(NewYork,AMSPress,2007),114.Cites“GreatLiteraryProjector”JamesE.May,“StudiesofAuthorshipintheLong18thCentury,c.1988-2007,”BibliographicalSocietyofAmerica,p.62.2010update.OnlineCliveProbyn,“EnthusiasticReceptionfor2007Fleeman,”TheSouthernJohnsonian,v.14,no.53(December2007),1.AaronWilliamon,“TheArtofMusicalMemory,”inAndreasDorschel,ed.,Resonanzen:vomErinnerninderMusik(Wein:Universaledition,2007),30-41.“SamuelJohnson’sHistoryofMemory,”citedp.40.

2006

AnnualBibliographyoftheHistoryofthePrintedBookandLibraries,Volume31(2006),190.Noticeof“TheRambler’sSecondAudience”CassandraL.Atherton,FlashingEyesandFloatingHair:AReadingofGwenHarwood'sPseudonymousPoetry(Melbourne:AustralianScholarlyPublishing,2006),67.Quotes“What’sinaName?”,mySundayAgeessayonpseudonyms.

GavinBudge,“TheEighteenthCentury:ProseandGeneral,”TheYear’sWorkinEnglishStudies,85:1–“PaulTankard’s‘The“GreatCham”andthe“EnglishAristophanes”:SamuelJohnson,SamuelFoote,andHarmlessPleasure’(AgeJ15[2004]83–96)examines‘atensionoraporiainJohnson’sattitudes’(p.89)towardshumourasreportedbyBoswell.”

DavidLoughrey,“GoingForward,GoingNowhere,”TheOtagoDailyTimes,11-12Feb.,2006,Magazine3.Qtd.frominterview.AlbaRebeccaNewmann,“Languageisnotavagueprovince”:MappingandTwentieth-CenturyAmericanPoetry,Ph.DDissertation(UniversityofTexasatAustin,2006).FourcitationsofmyElizabethBishoparticle.WilliamStewart,“Crownofthorns:Ancientprophecyandthe(post)modernspectacle,”TheBibleandCriticalTheory,2:1(February2006).Article“StrangeLiaisons”(Eureka

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Street,July-August1997),qtd.2005

MelanieB.Bigold,rev.ofTheAgeofJohnson,vol15(2004),TheReviewofEnglishStudies,56(September,2005),677-79.Mentionsandbrieflyremarkson“GreatCham.”

GavinBudge,“TheEighteenthCentury:ProseandGeneral”,TheYear’sWorkInEnglishStudies,2004(83:7).“TheGreatLiteraryProjector”(AgeofJohnson)describedas“animpressiveandrevealingbiographicalsurveyofJohnson’svariousschemesforpublications,whichmakestheimportantpointthatsuchschemesshedlightontheliterarymilieuinwhichJohnsonworked”(5).

AndrewEdwards,“GoogleGoestotheLibrary,”FineBooksandCollectionsMagazine,May/June2005.Qtd.frominterview.BenFahy,“CryingFoul:What’sinaWord?,”OtagoDailyTimes,16-17April2005,Weekendmagazine,p.3.Qtd.frominterview.JohnS.Kincade,“SamuelJohnson’sRamblerandtheInventionofSelf-HelpLiterature,”Ph.Ddissertation(TheUniversityofTexasatAustin,2005).Quotesmy1999essay,“APettyWriter.”

JackLynch,“SamuelJohnson,Unbeliever,”Eighteenth-CenturyLife,29:3(Fall2005),18fn.16.“ThatGreatLiteraryProjector”(AgeofJohnson)cited.

JackLynch,“Johnson’sEncyclopedia,”inAnniversaryEssaysonJohnson’sDictionary,ed.JackLynch,AnneMcDermott(CambridgeU.P.,2005).“ThatGreatLiteraryProjector,”cited,145n.18.

RalphMiller,“TheImportanceofBeingAnal,”Critic,12(23May2005),28-30.AboutspellingandEnglishskills;qtd.frominterview.

AlisonMuri,“TheHistoryandFutureoftheBook”(ENG204),Dep’tofEnglish,UniversityofSaskatchewan,2005.LetterstoSHARP-L,14Dec.and17Dec.2004,includedincoursereadings.

AlvaroRibiero,S.J.,ReviewofMaryHydeEccles:AMiscellanyofHerEssaysandAddresses,ed.WilliamZachs(2002),inTheAgeofJohnson,v.16(2005),365.“ThatGreatLiteraryProjector”describedas“splendid.”

HallieRubenhold,TheCoventGardenLadies:PimpGeneralJackandtheExtraordinaryStoryofHarris’sList(London:Tempus,2005).Acknowledgement.p.6.

2004

RobertDeMaria,ReviewofJohnson,WritingandMemory,byGregClingham(2002),JohnsonianNewsLetter,LV:1(March2004),56-58.QuotesmyASECS/ISECSreportinthisissue,56.JackLynch,“JohnsonandHookeronEcclesiasticalandCivilPolity,”TheReviewofEnglishStudies,NewSeries,55:218(Jan.2004),45-59.Ref.to“ThatGreatLiteraryProjector,”

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PhilipSmallwood,Johnson’sCriticalPresence:Image,History,Judgment(Ashgate,2004),153n.1andBibliography.Cites“GreatLiteraryProjector.”

2003

JackLynch(ed.),SamuelJohnson’sDictionary:Selections(DelrayBeach,FL:Levenger,2003).Ackn’t,p.vii.JackLynch,TheAgeofElizabethintheAgeofJohnson(CambridgeUniv.Press,2003),pp.167,215.Cites“GreatLiteraryProjector”:describedas“athoroughdiscussionofJohnson’snevercompletedworks”(167).

2002

“TheBigBrotherNobodyisWatching”[editorial],TheAustralian,12December2002,x.DiscussesmyarticleinAustralianHES.PaulMonk,“TheLordoftheRings”[letter],Quadrant,July-August2002,6

NoelRoweandJenniferMoore,“OtherLiteratures”(Section2:Australia),inTheYear’sWorkinEnglishStudies,81:1(2002),p.1031.“HopeisalsodiscussedinPaulTankard,‘“FreeVerse”andTraditionalForminEliot,LawrenceandHope’(AUMLA93[2000]37–50),whichdiscussesHope’scomplaintsagainstwhathesawasEliot’smetricalweaknesses.Tankardclaimsthat,whereasHopethinksitisnecessaryforpoetrytoemploymetre,Eliotbelievesitisenoughforpoetrytoalludetometre.”BillStewart,“‘CrownofThorns,HalfNaked,Tits’:RachelGriffiths’LadyGodiva/NakedGirlChrist,”ZadokPapers,S120A(Winter,2002).ArticlefromEurekaStreet,“StrangeLiaisons,”qtd.,p.3.G.ThomasTanselle,IntroductiontoScholarlyEditing:SeminarSyllabus[forEnglish/ComparitiveLiterature4011],ColumbiaUniversity.Charlottesville:BookArtsPress,2002.“TheRambler’sSecondAudience,”citedp.45.G.ThomasTanselle,IntroductiontoBibliography:SeminarSyllabus[forEnglish/ComparitiveLiterature4010],ColumbiaUniversity.Charlottesville:BookArtsPress,2002.“TheRambler’sSecondAudience,”citedp.224.MinWild,reviewofTheAgeofJohnson,v.11,inTheReviewofEnglishStudies53(May,2002),269.“PaulTankardwearshislabourandlearninglightlyinhisexplicationofalistofrecommendedreadingprovidedbyJohnsonforaclergymanfriendin1774.Thisisausefulworkofrecovery.”2001

ABHB:AnnualBibliographyoftheHistoryofthePrintedBookandLibraries,vol.29:Publicationsof1998(2001),p.249,523.ReferencetoBSANZreviewofRibble&Ribble,Fielding’sLibrary.StephenKarian,“ReadingtheMaterialTextofSwift’sVersesonDeath,”StudiesinEnglish

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Literature,41:3(Summer,2001).Ackn’t,p.539.

StevenLynn,“TheEighteenthCentury:Prose,”TheYear’sWorkinEnglishStudies2001,80(1):376-427.Paragraphdiscussionof‘APettyWriter:JohnsonandtheRamblerPamphlets.’AdamRounce,ReviewofTheAgeofJohnson,v.10(withotherworks),BritishJournalforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,24:2(Spring2001),229-32:“PaulTankardusesbibliographicaldiscussionofthemodeofpublicationoftheRambler(andJohnson’sworkontheHarleianMiscellany)tosuggestthatthespontaneous,imperativenatureofsuchpamphletproductionsuitedJohnson’smoralaimsofimmediacyandrecurrentinquiry”(231).JohnWiltshire,JaneAusten’s‘DearDr.Johnson’:TheDavidFleemanMemorialLecture,2001[i.e.,2000](2001),acknowledgedinfn.12forsuggestionpp.14-15.

2000

WilliamBakerandKennethWomack,“BibliographyandTextualCriticism,”inTheYear’sWork,1997:TheYear’sWorkinEnglishStudies,78,ed.PeterJ.Kitson(2000).“PocketsofWisdom”cited,971.

AnthonyS.Brandt,“PopStardomvs.DeathlessProse,”Salon(21March2000).BasedonalettertoSHARP-L,qtd.

WalterHooper(ed.),C.S.Lewis:CollectedLetters,vol.1:FamilyLetters,1905-1931(London:HarperCollins,2000).Acknowledgement,p.xi.

JackLynch,ABibliographyofJohnsonianStudies,1986-1998(2000).Sevencitations,andacknowledgement,p.xvi.1999

TraceyAubin,PeterCostello:ABiography(1999).Acknowledgement,p.vi;alsoqtd.KevinHart,SamuelJohnsonandtheCultureofProperty(1999).Acknowledgement,p.10.1995PeterMoriatis,PublicLiteracy:ACurriculumforAdultBasicEducation(Adult,CommunityandFurtherEducationBoard,1995),p.209.QuoteslettertoTheAge,re.Sundaytrading.1990PeterHaydon,PoemsandStories(1990).Acknowledgement,3.

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TheAotearoaCreativeWritingResearchNetwork–member.TheAustralianandNewZealandSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudies(ANZSECS).Co-optedtotheCommittee,Dec.2014,asVice-President(International).TheBibliographicalSocietyofAustraliaandNewZealand:member.CentrefortheBook,attheUniversityofOtago–AssociateCentreforScottishStudies,UniversityofOtago–AffiliatedStaffcolloquy:texttheorycriticism:journalconductedbypost-graduatestudentsoftheEnglishDepartment,MonashUniversity.MemberofEditorialCommittee,ReviewsEditor(1995-6).DunedinPublicLibraries:StrategicDirections,stakeholderfocusgroup–29July,andlaterdate,2015.DunedinUNESCOCityofLiteratureCollaborationGroup,2015–member

DunedinWriters’andReaders’Festival(nonfictionworkinggroup),2014.

FriendsoftheDunedinPublicLibraryTheJohnsonSocietyofAustralia:foundationmember;PublicationsEditorandmemberoftheexecutive(1996-).TheJohnsonianNewsLetter–subscriberTheJohnsonians[ofNewYorkcity].NominatedbyPeterKanterandJamesCaudle,andadmittedtomembership,2012.TheJournalofInklingsStudies–subscriberOtagoInstitutefortheArtsandSciences–memberTheSocietyfortheHistoryofAuthorship,ReadingandPublishingListserv(SHARP-L)–subscriberUNESCOCityofLiterature,stakeholdergroupforDunedin’sbid–member,2013–14.“AContinuedSenseofWonder”AdultsReadingChildren’sbooks,discussionsatDunedinPublicLibrary,2016--

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EnglishprosecompositionTheoryandCultureofReadingModernPoetryandPoetics TheoryofEverydayLifeParatextuality ThegenreoftheessayMinor,non-canonicalprosegenres