CV Robert L. Mack - Humanities - University of Exeter

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Curriculum Vitae
ROBERT LAWRENCE MACK
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Current Residence: 5A North Street
Heavitree, Exeter
Devon, EX1 2RH (United Kingdom)
(work tel. 01392 264 265)
e-mail: rlmack@exeter.ac.uk
Current Employer: Department of English
University of Exeter
(Citizen, U.S.A.: Permanent Resident, U.K.)
Princeton University, 1985-90. Ph.D.
Oxford University (Hertford College) 1983-85. B.A.(Honours)
English Language and Literature.
Columbia University, 1979-83. B.A. summa cum laude. English.
Academic Appointments:
Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, Autumn, 2006-present.
Visiting Professor, Vassar College (New York), Autumn 2009.
Lecturer, University of Exeter, Autumn 1999-Summer 2006.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Vanderbilt University,
Autumn 1991-Spring 1999.
Lecturer, Department of English, Princeton University, 1989-91.
Selected Publications:
BOOKS:
The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd, The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street. The Life and Times of an Urban Legend.
London: Continuum Press, February 2008
The Genius of Parody: Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Literature. London: Palgrave-Macmillan. March
2007.
Thomas Gray: A Life. London and New Haven: Yale University Press,
November 2000.

SELECTED SCHOLARLY AND CRITICAL EDITIONS:
Editor, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Oxford
University Press. New edition with Introduction, Notes,
Chronology, and Bibliography, November 2007.
Editor, The Austen Family’s The Loiterer. Edwin Mellen Press
(Critical Edition with Introduction, Notes, Chronology, and Full
Textual Apparatus) October 2006.
Editor, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield. Oxford: O.U.P.
(“World’s Classics”, new edition, introduction and notes)
May 2006.
Editor, Oliver Goldsmith: Selected Poetry. London: J.M. Dent-
Everyman, 1997.
Editor, Thomas Gray: Selected Poetry. London: J.M. Dent-Everyman,
1996.
Editor, Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Oxford: O.U.P. (“World’s
Classics”) 1995.
Editor, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales
London: J.M. Dent-Everyman, 1993.
Editor, Oriental Tales. Oxford: O.U.P. (“World’s Classics”) 1992.
Co-Editor, with Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor, Fanny Burney,
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties. Oxford: O.U.P. (“World’s
Classics”) 1991.
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS:
“The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate
Personality” in The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen.
Eds. Claudia Johnson and Clara Tuite. Oxford: Blackwell’s
Publishing, 2009: 31-40.
“Antoine Galland’s Arabian Nights’ Entertainments in the Traditions
of English Literature’ and ‘Selected Bibliography’ [for the entire
volume] in The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: From Galland
to Burton and Beyond. Eds. Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum.
Oxford: O.U.P., 2008: 51-82; 317-28.
“Extended Intertextual Reference to Nicholas Rowe’s The Fair Penitent
in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield” in Notes & Queries
54.4 (December 2007): 467-69.
“Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Spiritual Sentimentality,
and the Lost Polar Expedition of Sir John Franklin”. ELN: English
Language Notes. 44.1 (Spring 2006): 43-56.
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“Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Spiritual Sentimentality,
and the Lost Polar Expedition of Sir John Franklin”. ELN: English
Language Notes 44.1 (Spring 2006): 43-56.
“Quotation Marks: Living the life of a Language” in Life Writing:
Exploring the Contemporary Meanings of Life Narrative, Vol. 2,
no. 1 (Spring, 2005): 109-27.
“Frances Burney’s Revisions to The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties”
in Journal X: A Journal of Culture and Criticism. Vol. 9, no. 1
(Spring 2005): 17-51.
“The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments and Oriental Tales in the
Eighteenth Century”. Chapter 7 in The Oxford History of Literary
Translation, Volume III (1660-1790). Eds. David Hopkins and Stuart
Gillespie, Oxford University Press, (2005): 470-75.
“Another Thomas Gray Parody in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” in
Notes & Queries 249 (N.S. Vol. 51) No. 2 (June 2004): 178-82.
“From Eton to Ranelagh: Context and Meaning in an Early Parody of
Thomas Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” in
English Language Notes (June 2004) Volume 36, No. 1: 38-51.
Contributor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), s.v.
“Ridley, James (1736-65)”, Volume 46: 939-40.
Contributor, The Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1765–1830, s.v.
“Graveyard Poets” (i.448-49); “Horace Walpole” (ii.1205-06); “The
Castle of Otranto” (i.161-62). Fitzroy-Dearborn (December 2003).
Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, 2 nd . Ed. Vol. 2:
Gay Histories and Cultures, George Haggerty, gen. ed. New York
and London: Garland Publishing, 2000, s.v. “Arabian Nights”,
“Molly Houses”.
“‘Stand, Sir, And Deliver Up Your Muse’: Poetic Appropriation in the
Early Augustan Battleground” in Restoration and Eighteenth-
Century Theatre Research (January 1998): 61-67.
“Ben Jonson's Own Comedy of Errors: ‘That Witty Play’, The Case Is
Altered” in Ben Jonson Journal, Volume 4 (1997): 47-63.
“‘Such Wounds as Hell Can Equal’: Tragic Guilt in the Drama of
George Lillo” in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Research, 7.1 (Summer 1992): 35-53.
SELECTED REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS:
Review of Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, and M.O. Grenby, eds. Popular
Children’s Literature in Britain (Ashgate, 2009) in Journal for
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Eighteenth-Century Studies (forthcoming Winter 2010).
Review of Reginald McGinnis, ed. Originality and Intellectual
Property in the French and English Enlightenment (Routledge, 2009)
in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming December 2009).
Review of Robin Sowerby, The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan
Translation of the Classics (Oxford, 2006) in Eighteenth-Century
Studies (2007) 41.1: 130-33.
Review of Ros Ballaster’s Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the
East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford, 2005) and Fables of the East:
Selected Tales 1662-1785 (Oxford, 2005) and Robert Irwin’s For
Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies (Allen Lane,
2006) in Review of English Studies (Summer 2006) 57: 420-23.
“Beloved Ancients … and Much, Much More” review of The Library and
Reading of Jonathan Swift. Eds. D. Passmann and H. Vienken
(Frankfurt: Peter Lang) in Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 39
No. 2 (Winter 2006): 268-73.
SELECTED MEDIA EXPOSURE AND PUBLIC/USER ENGAGEMENT:
• Programme Notes completed for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s
production of Dominic Cooke’s dramatic adaptation, Arabian Nights,
performed at Stratford-Upon-Avon, December 2009-January 2010.
• Radio Interview: BBC Radio 4 The Rise of the Footnote, presented by
Ben Schott (air date: 1 April 2008).
• Television Interview: BBC 2: Newsnight Review (17 January 2008).
• Radio Interview: BBC 4: Open Book with Mariella Frostrup (20 November
2007).
• Radio Interview: BBC Radio Devon: The Review-Culture Show (24 January
2008).
• Radio Interview: BBC Three Counties Radio: “Breakfast” with Robert
Perrone (10 January 2008).
• Radio Interview: Newstalk, Ireland’s National Independent Talk-Radio
Broadcaster (27 January 2008).
• Radio Interview: BBC London (94.9) The Robert Elms Show (5 February
2008).
• News Interview, The Big Issue (21-27 January 2008), 6: The Big Issue
Scotland (14-20 January 2008).
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• Featured News Interview: The Daily Express (Wednesday 5 December
2007): 24-5.
• Featured Guest Author: The Interview Online: Audio and Video Podcasts
with Authors, Playwrights, Directors, and other Artists in Britain
(www.brightsounds.co.uk) from 16 January 2008.
• Featured Author: Guardian Review: Arts (19 January 2008) “On a Knife
Edge”, p. 19.
• Guest Author, Guardian Unlimited (25 January 2008), “Short and
Sharp”.
• Featured Interview and Profile, The Exeter Express and Echo (30
January 2008), p. 3.
• Guest “Blogger”. Oxford University Press (five postings: week of 17-
21 December 2007).
• Guest “Blogger”. Powell’s Bookstore (five postings; week of 17-21
December 2007).
• Review “Classic: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in
The Times by Margaret Reynolds (18 January 2008).
• Review “The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The
Life and Times of an Urban Legend” by Rohan McWilliam (2008: 50.4):
731–32.
WORK CURRENTLY IN SUBMISSION and WORK IN PROGRESS:
The Arabian Nights and the Traditions of Children’s Literature.
Walt Disney and Children’s Literature
“Beastly Babies and Lines of Descent: Little Victims at Play in the
Work of Hilaire Belloc, Basil Blackwell, Edward Gorey, and Frank
O’Hara” (25,000 words).
Selected List of Participation in Scholarly Meetings:
Invited Speaker and Participant, “The Diasporic Text: Arrivals and
Departures in 1001 Nights”. Three-day conference panel, ACLA
(American Comparative Literature Association), 23-27 April, Long
Beach, California.
Invited Speaker and Participant: “The Compass of Story: The Oriental
Tale and the Western Imagination” British Academy, 28-29 March
2008. Organised by Marina Warner, FBA.
Invited and Featured Speaker: Tercentenary Celebration of the
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Translation of Antoine Galland’s Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,
Clark Library, UCLA, Los Angeles California, 19-20 October 2005.
Organizer and Principal Coordinator: Eighteenth-Century Narrative
Conference, School of English, Univ. of Exeter, 19-23 July 2004.
Speaker and Panel Chair, Conference on Women and Material Culture,
Southampton, July 2004.
Invited Speaker, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Boston, April 2004.
Other Participation in Scholarly Meetings (selection):
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame,
April, 1998; First Annual Univ. of Mississippi Conference on the
Renaissance, Oxford, MS, April, 1997; American Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies, Nashville, TN, April 1997; Conference on Modern
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, Nashville, TN, April,
1997; MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1996; Sixteenth-
Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October, 1996; Valparaiso
Univ. Guest Lecturer, Dept. of Music, Valparaiso, IN, April, 1994;
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charleston, S.C.,
March, 1994; Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, March,1993; Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Stonybrook Univ., October, 1992; American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Univ. of Seattle, March, 1992;
DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies, Univ. of Tampa,
February, 1992; The Notre Dame Sesquicentennial Irish Meetings, Univ. of
Notre Dame, October, 1991; Western American Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies, Univ. of San Diego, February, 1991; Seventh Citadel
Conference on Literature, The Citadel, S.C. Feb. 1991; Northeast
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Univ. of Mass. At
Amherst, Nov. 1990; Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame, Oct. 1988.
Miscellaneous Publications and Related Experience:
“My Empire is of the Imagination”. Programme Notes and web-link for
the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2009-10 production of Arabian
Nights, adapted and directed by Dominic Cooke at The Courtyard
Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon (December 2009).
Literary Consultant and Advisor to John Copley, Director and
Producer, Royal College of Music, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of
the Screw (2003-04).
Literary Consultant and Adviser to Douglas McGrath, Director, Jane
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Austen’s Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Alan Cumming (2001).
Author "Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe", an audio-cassette for A+
Audio Classics, a division of Atlantic Records.
Oxford University Press, May-August, 1986. Assisted in the on-going
preparation of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations.
Teaching Experience:
Courses in: Past and Present (Homer to Philip Larkin); Sex and
Sensibility (Literature of the Enlightenment); Satire; Classics of
Children’s Literature; Classics of Modern Children’s Literature;
The Arabian Night’s Entertainments and the English Literary
Tradition; The Age of Dryden and Swift; The Age of Pope and
Johnson; Representative English Writers I (Beowulf to Milton), II
(Dryden to Woolf); Introduction to Poetry; The Classical Roots of
Western Literature I (Homer to Ovid), II (the Bible to Proust);
Literary Tradition from the 19 th to 20th Century; Shakespeare;
Journalism; London and Its Literature in the 17 th -Century;
Literature and the Opera; The Nature of Biography Graduate
Seminar); Classical Myth, Folk-Tales, and Fairy Tales; Power and
Desire (Sixteenth-Century Drama and Poetry); Blood, Bodies and
Revolution (Seventeenth-Century Drama and Poetry); Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century Drama (Graduate Seminar; Walt Disney: Text and
Adaptation; Modern Children’s Literature
Contributions to Leadership and Management of the School of English:
Principal applicant, British Academy Conference Grant (BCG 37848):
£2,000. Eighteenth-Century Narratives Conference (July 2004).
Member, Research Team preparing and brokering international contacts
Current AHRC bid (£60,000) for Spring, 2007: ‘Research Network:
Narratives 1680-1830’.
Library Officer, Department of English (2006-present).
Admissions Officer, School of English, University of Exeter
(2002-2006).
External Ph.D. Examiner, Oxford University (November 2005).
AHRC Research Leave Assessor (External Application).
Internal Ph.D. Examiner, University of Exeter (from 2005).
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University of Exeter: Head, Eighteenth-Century Research Group
(2002-2006).
Director of Single Honours Programme, School of English (2004-2006).
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, School of
English, University of Exeter (2002-2006).
Member, School of English Research Committee, School of
English, University of Exeter (2001-2006).
Convenor, ‘Sex and Sensibility’, School of English,
University of Exeter (2002-present).
Convenor, ‘Past and Present’ (Semesters I-II), School of
English, University of Exeter (2004-05; 2006-07).
Personal Tutor, School of English, University of Exeter
(2000-present).
Teaching and Learning Convenor, B.A. in English
Programme, University of Exeter in Cornwall (1999-2001).
Director of Studies, Year Two, B.A. in English
Programme, University of Exeter in Cornwall (2000-2001).
Other University and External Professional Service:
Languages:
Membership Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of
Tennessee, 1996-99.
Member, Advisory Board, Journal X: A Journal in Culture
and Criticism (1994-2005).
Pre-major and major adviser, Vanderbilt University
(Fall, 1993-Spring, 1994; Fall, 1996-1999).
Undergraduate Studies Committee, Vanderbilt University
(Fall, 1992-Spring, 1994; Fall, 1995-1999).
Undergraduate Honours Committee, Vanderbilt University
(Fall, 1992-Spring, 1994).
Greek, Latin, French, Anglo-Saxon (Old English).
Other Professional Experience:
Certified Personal Fitness Trainer. American Council on
Exercise. 1997.
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Featured by-lined articles (travel related) in: The
Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia
Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner, Dallas Morning
News, Cincinnati Enquirer, Toronto Globe and Mail,
Milwaukee Sentinel, The Daily Oklahoman, Providence
Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Tacoma News, Danbury
Post, Middletown Times (NY), Buffalo News.
Soloist, chorus member, and actor, the Metropolitan
Opera, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1967-75.
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