Greg Clingham Scholar ∙ Writer ∙ Editor ∙ Publisher ∙ Teacher
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ABOUT ME
As an independent writer and editor, I am engaged on several projects. My new book series with Clemson University Press -- Eighteenth-Century Moments -- will publish cutting edge scholarship in literature, history, and culture, 1650-1850. I am working on a New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson for Cambridge, on another book of essays on Johnson for Lehigh University Press, and on a book on the art and writing of Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard (1750-1825) at the Cape of Good Hope, 1797-1802. In Dec. 2018 I retired as Professor of English and Director of the University Press at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. Under my guidance, the Press became one of the great, small academic presses, distinguished, among other things, for eighteenth-century studies (Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture, Bucknell Studies in 18th-Century Literature and Culture, and New Studies in the Age of Goethe). As a scholar, I have published many books and essays on Dryden, Johnson, Boswell, Sir George Macartney, Lady Anne Barnard, memory, translation, historiography, law & literature, Orientalism, and East-West relations in the enlightenment. After a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing about literature, I'm sure that the study of language, literature, and history not only prepares us to participate productively and responsibly in civil society, but that it is also one of the great and enduring pleasures of life.
MY WORK
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Bucknell Press
Titles in 18th-Century Studies Publications, 1985-2019 Lectures & Conference Presentations Fellowships CV |
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CONSULTING & LECTURING
As an editor and director at a small but vibrant university press I hosted workshops on academic publishing and proposal writing, and I am available now to help others think through and plan how to meet the challenges facing academic and independent publishers under changing circumstances. As a scholar and teacher I am available to lecture and facilitate short courses on a wide range of authors and issues spanning the years 1650 and 1850 (including Johnson, Boswell, Lady Anne Barnard, Austen, Dickens, and Tolstoy), landscape & literature, law & literature, travel, British-China relations, and the Cape of Good Hope in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth centuries.