Recent & Ongoing Projects

• General Editor of new book series with Clemson University Press, Eighteenth-Century Moments.
• New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson for Cambridge University Press is due in September 2022.
  
• Working on collection of essays, Samuel Johnson's Interests: Life, Literature, Limits, for Lehigh University Press.
• Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century, co-edited with Baerbel Czennia (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2020).
• Preface to Johnson in Japan, ed. Kimiyo Ogawa & Mika Suzuki (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021).
• "John Opie's Portraits of Dr Johnson." Harvard Library Bulletin, 28:2 (2017; pub. 2019): 57-80.
• "'I stole his likeness:' An Unknown Drawing of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell." The Burlington Magazine,  161 (March 2019): 220-222.
• "Johnson and Borges: Some Reflections." In Johnson and Modernity, ed. Anthony W. Lee (Clemson UP and Liverpool UP, 2019), 189-212.
• "Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England." 1650-1850: Ideas, Issues, & Aesthetics in the Early Modern Era, 24 (2019): 178-242.
• "Playing Rough: Johnson and Children." In Revaluation: New Essays on Samuel Johnson, ed. Anthony W. Lee (U Delaware Press, 2018), 145-82.
• Plenary lecture on "The Wit and Wisdom of Lady Anne Barnard," South Central 18th-Century Studies Conference, Oxford, MS, Feb. 2018
• Research on Lady Anne Barnard at the National Library of Scotland, Nov. 2016, Nov. 2017, and June 2018; and at the National Library of South Africa and at the Castle Museum, Cape Town, March-April 2019; research visits in 2020 cancelled due to the covid pandemic.
• Research visit to Balcarres House, Fife, home of the 29th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, November 2016.
• Bucknell Press partnership with Rutgers University Press -- Greg's interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 2017
• In the Footsteps of Lady Anne Barnard, Cape of Good Hope, May 2015  —  blog