LISA BERGLUND - Buffalo State

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
LISA BERGLUND
English Department
SUNY-Buffalo State College
Buffalo, NY 14222
berglul@buffalostate.edu
State University of New York—Buffalo State College: Professor, 2012-present; Associate
Professor, 2005-2012; Assistant Professor, 2001-2005
Connecticut College: Assistant Professor, 1995-2001; Instructor, 1992-95
University of Virginia: Instructor, 1991-92; Academic Director for Reading and Composition, Summer
Transition Program, 1990-92; Graduate Instructor and Teaching Assistant, 1985-91
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
Dissertation: Learning to Read The Rambler; Director: Martin C. Battestin
M.A., University of Virginia, 1985
Thesis: “‘Dominion Large Beyond this Deep’” (on Paradise Lost)
B.A. (with High Honors), Swarthmore College, 1983
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
Cordell Collection Fellowship, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, May 2011. For work on “Secular
Bibles: Annotations in Early American Dictionaries.”
The Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for the Study of Dr. Samuel Johnson and his Circle, Houghton
Library, Harvard University, MA, April 2009. For work on “College Editions of the Principal Works
of Hester Lynch Piozzi”
The Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, July 2008. For work
on an edition of Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a
Journey through France, Italy and Germany (1789); and research on annotations in early American
dictionaries
Provost’s Incentive Grants, Buffalo State College: 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
Individual Development Award, Buffalo State College: 2004-2005, 2009-2010
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships: with Devon A. Cozad, 2011; Matthew Guminiak, 2010;
Kelsey M. Till, 2009; Robert Turley, 2007; Aimee M. Levesque, 2006
Integration of Undergraduate Research into the Curriculum Grant, Buffalo State College, Office of
Undergraduate Research, 2004: “The History of the Book”

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Winner of the 1999 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Competition, for
“Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader”
University of Virginia Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 1991
Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1983
ARTICLES
“‘I am lost without my Boswell’: Samuel Johnson and Sherlock Holmes,” The Age of Johnson 22
(2012) [forthcoming]
“Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy in Imperial France,” Dictionaries 31 (2010): 69-86.
“Oysters for Hodge, or, Ordering Society, Writing Biography and Feeding the Cat,” Journal of
Eighteenth-Century Studies 33:4 (2010): 631-645.
“Fossil Fish: Preserving Samuel Johnson within Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy,”
Dictionaries 30 (2009): 96-107.
“Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Anecdotes versus the Editors,” The Age of Johnson 18 (2007): 273-290.
Review Essay: “‘Like the Pedant in Hierocles’: Thoughts on the Present and Future of the
Eighteenth-Century Studies Anthology,” The Age of Johnson 15 (2004): 331-365.
“What is Samuel Johnson’s Role in Contemporary Fiction?” Johnsonian News Letter 55:2 (2004): 27-31.
“‘Look, my Lord, it comes’: The Approach of Death in the Life of Johnson,” 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 7 (2002), 239-255.
“Allegory in The Rambler,” Papers in Language and Literature 37:2 (2001), 147-178.
“Writing to Mr. Rambler: Samuel Johnson and Exemplary Autobiography,” Studies in Eighteenth-
Century Culture 29 (1999), 241-259.
“Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader,” Teaching the Eighteenth Century 7 (1999), 45-58.
Publication of my prize-winning paper/presentation from the ASECS 1999 Teaching Competition.
“The Language of the Libertines: Subversive Morality in The Man of Mode,” Studies in English
Literature 30 (1990), 369-86.
“‘Faultily Faultless’: The Structure of Tennyson’s Maud,” Victorian Poetry 27 (1989), 45-59.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy and ‘the Notion of a Sex in Words,’” in Living in the
Eighteenth Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Betty Rizzo, ed. Temma Berg and Sonia Kane.
[forthcoming]
“Life,” in Samuel Johnson in Context. Ed. Jack Lynch. Cambridge UP, 2011.

“Teaching Book History on the Road,” in Teaching Book History, Textual Criticism and Bibliography.
Ed. Ann Hawkins. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006: 44-50.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
“Hester Lynch Piozzi: An Annotated Bibliography,” Eighteenth-Century Bibliography On Line,
ed. Jack Lynch, at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18/biblio/piozzi.html.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
by Joshua Kendall and The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial
Dictionary Ever Published by David Skinner, DSNAN 36:2 (2012) [forthcoming]
Samuel Johnson after 300 Years, by Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, The Age of Johnson 22
(2012) [forthcoming]
The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism, by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
Dictionaries 32 (2011), 179-181.
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary, by Henry Hitchings.
Dictionaries 27 (2006), 184-185.
Such Constant Affectionate Care: Lady Charlotte Finch, Royal Governess, and the Children of
George III, by Jill Shefrin. Eighteenth-Century Woman 4 (2006), 395-398
Johnson Revisioned: Looking Before and After, ed. Philip Smallwood, SJSSC Newsletter 17 (2002)
Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property by Kevin Hart, Albion 33:2 (2001), 316-17.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels, ed. Jim Huang.
The Crum Creek Press, 2002. Articles on The Last Known Address by Joseph Harrington and Sleep
Long, My Love by Hilary Waugh. This book won the 2003 Agatha Award for Criticism from the
Mystery Writers of America.
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (2003). Articles on John Hawkins, Arthur Murphy,
Baroness [Emmuska] Orczy, and Hester Lynch Piozzi.
PUBLIC LECTURES
“Lost without Boswell: Samuel Johnson and Sherlock Holmes,” Phi Beta Kappa Western New York
Association, Westwood Country Club, Williamsville, NY, 20 April 2011.
“An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan,” Amherst Community Church, Snyder, NY, 27 June and 31 August
2006; Lancaster Opera House, Lancaster, NY, 13 March 2009; Riviera Theater, Tonawanda, NY,
11-12 September 2010; First Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, NY, 21 April 2012. My lecture was
illustrated by concert selections.
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“Oysters for Hodge, or, Gender, Johnson’s Biographers, and the Cat,” Columbia University Faculty
Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, 4 November 1999
“Johnson’s Dictionary and the Love of Learning as the Guide to Life,” Connecticut College,
11 November 1997
“Outside the ‘Wooden O’: Filming Shakespeare’s Histories,” Cornell College, 14 October 1997
“Walker Percy and Anne Tyler: Contemporary American Novelists and the Image of the
Tourist,” Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Humanities Council, 26 April 1997
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS, last five years
“Was Hester Lynch Piozzi Just ‘Dr. Johnson’s Mrs. Thrale?’” Modern Language Association
(MLA), Boston, January 2013
“Respondent: Digital Dictionaries,” (MLA Discussion Group on Lexicography), Boston, January 2013
“‘Rust of the Soul’: Samuel Johnson on Sorrow, Reason and Condolence,” Northeast American Society
for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 2012.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the East Central American Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies Conference (EC/ASECS), Cape May, October 2001
“Secular Bibles: Annotations in Early American Dictionaries,” Dictionary Society of North
America (DSNA), Montreal, June 2011. A later version of this paper was presented in the
lecture series Conversations in and out of the Disciplines, Buffalo State College, Buffalo,
NY, 9 December 2011.
“‘I am lost without my Boswell’: Samuel Johnson and Sherlock Holmes,” Modern Language
Association, Los Angeles, January 2011; an earlier version of this paper was presented at the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Portland, OR, March 2008
“Laundry Lists and Family Trees: Annotations in Early American Dictionaries,” Society for the
History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Helsinki, August 2010.
“Hester Lynch Piozzi Reflects on Venice,” ASECS, Albuquerque, March 2010.
“British Synonymy in Imperial France: Remaking Mrs. Piozzi as a Cultural Ambassador,”
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/Canadian Eighteenth Century
Studies (NEASECS/CECS), Montreal, November 2009
“Revisiting Europe from Weston Super Mare: Hester Lynch Piozzi's 1819 Marginal Commentary
on Observations and Reflections,” EC/ASECS, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, October
2009
“‘The Notion that there is a Sex in Words’: Johnson, Piozzi and Gendered Lexicography,”
Johnson at 300: A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
August 2009

“Introducing Undergraduates to Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts,” Rare Book and
Manuscript Section, American Library Association Preconference, Los Angeles, June 2008
“The Coquette and the Dictionary: The Didactic Contexts of an Early American Paratext,”
EC/ASECS, Galloway, NJ, November 2007
“The Parrys’ Dictionary: A Bibliographical Case Study for the Classroom,” Part 1: DSNA,
Chicago, June 2007; Part 2: SHARP, Minneapolis, July 2007
CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED, last five years
“Teaching Eighteenth Century Life Writing,” NEASECS, Wesleyan University, Middletown,
CT, October 2012
“Teaching Religion and the Eighteenth Century,” EC/ASECS, Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
PA, October 2009
“Teaching the L-O-O-N-N-G Eighteenth-Century,” EC/ASECS, Washington, DC, November 2008
“Using Secondary Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Studies Classroom: Texts and
Techniques,” ASECS, Portland, OR, March 2008
“Wikipedia in the Eighteenth-Century Studies Classroom,” EC/ASECS, Galloway, NJ,
November 2007
WORK IN PROGRESS
Article: “Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy and Apocalyptic Vision”
Article: “Secular Bibles: Annotations in Early American Dictionaries”
Edition, with introduction and notes: Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the
Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany (1789) (contract with Valancourt Books)
Edition, with introduction and notes: Hester Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson,
LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of his Life (1786) (contract with Edwin Mellen)
Edition, with introduction and notes: Hester Lynch Piozzi, British Synonymy, or An attempt at
regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation (1794) (contract with Edwin Mellen)
Article: “The Marginal Life of Hester Lynch Piozzi”
Article: “The Parrys’ Dictionary: A Bibliographical Case Study for the Classroom”
COURSES DESIGNED
The History of the Printed Book
Introduction to Lexicography (graduate course)
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Jane Austen (both senior seminar and graduate courses)
Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Gothic Fiction (online graduate course)
Eighteenth-Century Life Writing (graduate course)
Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (senior seminar)
Revolutions in British Poetry, 1770-1815
Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
Chaste Pens and Scribbling Ladies: Representing Women in Early Modern England
Shakespearean Adaptation (graduate course)
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (graduate course)
Shakespeare on Film (non-major lecture; also as online course with videotaped lectures)
Introduction to Humanities: The Tempest
OTHER COURSES TAUGHT
Milton (graduate and undergraduate courses)
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Drama (graduate and undergraduate courses)
Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry
English Novel to 1800
Shakespeare 1, 2
Shakespeare for Future Teachers
Survey of British Literature 1, 2
Introduction to Literary Interpretation
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Executive Secretary, Dictionary Society of North America, 2007-present
Conference Chair, Annual Meeting of Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Buffalo, NY, 21-23 October 2010 (150 registered participants)
Board Member, Modern Language Association Discussion Group on Lexicography, 2012-2016
First Vice-President (President Elect), Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 2012-2014; Board Member, 2009-2012
Board Member, East-Central American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies, 2006-2010
Associate Editor of The Drood Review of Mystery, 1988-2005
COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Buffalo State College, English Department, Associate Chair, 2007-2008
Buffalo State College, English Department Newsletter, Founding Editor; Publisher, January
2007-December 2008, September 2009-present
Buffalo State College, English Department Committees
Personnel Committee, Chair, 2010-2011; member, 2006-2007
Graduate Committee, member, 2012-present
Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2005-2009; member 2004-2005, 2010-2011

Recruitment Committee, Chair, 2012-present
British Literature Recruitment Committee, Chair, 2007-2008
American Literature Recruitment Committee, member (ex officio), 2007
Assessment Committee, Chair 2006-2007; member, 2001-2008
English Education Committee, member, 2011-2012
Scheduling Committee, 2006-2008
Discretionary Salary Increase Committee, 2006, 2008, 2011
Part-Time Concerns Committee, Chair, 2003-2006
Buffalo State College, Other Committee and Task Forces
Middle States Workgroup #8 (Assessment), 2011-2012
Assessment Advisory Board, 2012-present
Senate Curriculum Committee, 2011-2012
Senate Instruction and Research Committee, 2004-2010
Undergraduate Research Advisory Committee, 2004-2009
School of Arts and Humanities, Teaching Enhancement Steering Committee, 2011-present
School of Arts and Humanities, Curriculum Committee, 2007-2008, 2010-2011
School of Arts and Humanities, Student Enrichment and Retention Committee, 2010-present
School of Arts and Humanities, Ad-Hoc Committee on Humanities Learning Outcomes,
Chair, 2004-2005
School of Arts and Humanities, Humanities Task Force, Chair, 2002-2003
School of Arts and Humanities, Curriculum Committee, 2002-2005
College Writing Lecturer Recruitment Committee, 2007
Course Management System Selection Task Force, 2004-2005
Buffalo State College, English Department Sponsored Events
“Team Teaching and Interdisciplinary Collaboration” (with Adrienne Costello),
Conversations in and out of the Disciplines lecture series, 5 December 2008
“Editing an Eighteenth-Century Biography: Challenges and Discoveries,” Wednesdays at
Noon lecture series, 13 October 2004
“What is Samuel Johnson’s Role in Contemporary Fiction?” Wednesdays at Noon lecture
series, 31 October 2003
“The Street-Criers in Goblin Market: Using New Historicism,” Theory on Thursdays lecture
series, 14 November 2002
The Beggar’s Opera, 20 November 2002. I abridged the text; recruited performers from
among the English Department faculty and students; sang the role of Polly Peachum; and
organized the performance and the following reception for over 100 audience members.
Selected Other Service
Opera-Lytes (Community Theater Group), Board Member, 2006-present
Phi Beta Kappa Association of Western New York, President, 2012-present
The Chromatic Club of Buffalo (Community Musical Group), Board Member and Recording
Secretary, 2008-2011
Phi Beta Kappa, Delta of Connecticut: President, 1999-2000; Vice President, 1997-1999 and 2000-2001;
Membership Committee Chair, 1994-1996; Membership Committee, 1993-1994
Popular Literature Discussion Series (Seminar Leader), Southern Connecticut Library Council,
1994-2001
Connecticut College, Academic and Administrative Procedures [Curriculum] Committee: Chair,
1999-2001
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Connecticut College, Department of English, Honors Coordinator, 1996-2000
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Name Society
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Dictionary Society of North America
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Phi Beta Kappa
Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Western New York Book Arts Collective
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