Curriculum Vitae

JOHN A. HODGSON

 

Forbes College                                                                                                 

Princeton University                                                                                          hodgson@princeton.edu

Princeton, NJ 08544-4000                                                                                  (609) 258-5229

 

 

EDUCATION

            Ph.D.                                                   Yale University                                     1972

                        Ph.D. Dissertation:  "The World's Mysterious Doom:  Melville and Shelley

                                    on the Failure of the Imagination"

            M.A.                                                    Yale University                                     1968

            B.A. magna cum laude                        Dartmouth College                                1967

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

            Dean of Forbes College                         Princeton University                              2001-present

            Director of Studies, Forbes College         Princeton University                              1994-2001        

            Visiting Professor, English                      Tufts University                                    1993

            Associate Professor, English                  St. Anselm College                                1992-93

            Lecturer, History and Literature             Harvard University                                1989-92

            Associate Professor (tenured), English    University of Georgia                             1981‑89

            Associate Professor, English                  Yale University                                     1979‑81

            Assistant Professor, English                   Yale University                                     1972‑79

            Instructor, English                                  Carleton College                                    1970‑71

            Graduate Instructor, English                   Yale University                                     1970

 

            Administrative Responsibilities: 

 

As Dean and formerly as Director of Studies of Forbes College, I am responsible for the organization and oversight of academic advising and the implementation of academic regulations for 450+ freshmen and sophomores, and in this capacity I work closely with a group of fifteen faculty advisers.  I serve as the class dean for Forbes College students and as the Associate Master of the college, and am a non-voting member of the Committee on Examinations and Standing.  In addition, I have taken on a number of special administrative assignments.  Among them:  directing and coordinating the Martin Dale '53 Postgraduate Fellowship competition since its inception in 1996, serving on the Mail Team and writing most of its Phase One report to the APT (1997-98), serving on the Princeton Rhodes Scholarship Committee (since 1998), and supervising a complete revision of the Director of Studies Handbook in preparation for our new appointments to those positions (2000-01).

 

 

            Courses taught, 1972-93 (partial list):

 

                        Graduate:  English Romantic Literature, Modern Literary Theory and Criticism, Studies in the Wordsworth Circle, English and American Romanticism, the Romantic Prometheus, the Politics of Romantic Rhetoric, Detective Fiction, Introduction to Graduate Study in Humanities

 

                        Undergraduate:  English Romantic Poetry, American Romanticism, Contemporary Literary Theory, the European Literary Tradition (epic and dramatic), Detective Fiction, Nineteenth Century English Literature, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature, surveys of English and American literature, Humanities (Renaissance to Twentieth Century), expository writing

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

            NEH Summer Stipend, 1999

            American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, 1994 (declined)

            Dean's letter of commendation for distinguished teaching performance, Harvard Extension School, 1989-90

            Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1981‑82

            Morse Fellow, Yale University, 1976‑77

            Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1967‑68

            Elinor Perkins Prize (outstanding student of English, Greek, or Latin liter­ature), Dartmouth College, 1967

            B.A. with high honors in English, 1967

            Phi Beta Kappa, 1966

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

            Administrative:

 

2003 NASSR Conference Committee, 2001-present – planning the 2003 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism/British Association for Romantic Studies Conference in Manhattan; also setting up a new Tri-State Romantics Group.

 

                        Committee on Instruction, Program on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University, 1990-91 ‑- responsible for senior general examinations, senior oral examinations, junior advising, and action on all student petitions.

 

                        President, Romantic/Victorian Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1986‑87; Nominating Committee, 1987-89; Secretary, 1985‑86 ‑- refereed submissions, organized and chaired annual meeting.

 

                        English Department Graduate Studies Committee, University of Georgia, 1984-86 ‑- responsible for graduate admissions and for review, evaluation, and modification of the program.

 

                        English Department Lanier Professor Search Committee, University of Georgia, 1985-87; English Department Junior Appointments Committee, Yale University, 1974-75, 1977-78 ‑-responsible for finding, evaluating, and recommending faculty candidates.

 

                        Graduate Faculty Committee to Review the Graduate Program in Romance Languages, University of Georgia, 1983-84 ‑- responsible for analyzing and reporting on extensive Educational Testing Service surveys of the Program's faculty, students, and alumni, interviewing most of the Program's faculty and many of its graduate students, investigating the requirements and standards of comparable programs nationwide, contributing to the Committee's final written and oral reports to the Dean of the Graduate School.

 

                        Graduate Faculty Committee on Appointments and Reappointments in the Humanities, University of Georgia, 1985-87 ‑- responsible for review of professional qualifications of graduate faculty candidates.

 

                        Director, English 129 (The European Literary Tradition), Yale University, 1974‑76, 1980‑8l ‑- directed a staff of fifteen senior and junior faculty members, administered all aspects of this, the Department's largest course (400 students).

 

                        English Department Course of Studies Committee, Yale University, 1975‑76, 1980‑81 ‑- responsible for review, evaluation, and modification of the undergraduate major program.

 

                        Freshman Admissions, Yale University, 1975-76 ‑- faculty representa­tive and evaluator for New England region admissions decisions.

 

                        Yale College Summer Term Evaluation Committee, 1975-76 ‑- responsible for preliminary planning for this proposed major change in the Yale academic calendar.

 

            Consulting:

 

                        New Hampshire Humanities Council (Project Evaluation Con­sultant), 1988‑93 (Projects evaluated include documentary film on the life and death of civil rights worker Jonathan Daniels; New Hampshire Public Radio Humanities Features)

 

                        Department of English, University of California, Irvine (full pro­fessor promotion evaluator), 1987-88

 

                        Section for the Study of Foreign Languages, Athens Academy Long Range Planning Committee, 1986

 

            Referee for:

 

                        PMLA

                        Studies in Romanticism

                        Studies in English Literature

                        Rhetorica

                        Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

                        University of Alabama Press

 

 

PUBLICATIONS: 

 

            Books:

 

            Sherlock Holmes:  The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays.  Ed. and intro. John A. Hodgson.  Boston:  Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994.

 

            Coleridge, Shelley, and Transcen­dental Inquiry:  Rhetoric, Argument, Metapsychology.  Lincoln and London:  University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

 

            Wordsworth's Philosophical Poetry, 1797‑1814.  Lincoln and London:  University of Nebraska Press, 1980.

 

 

            Chapters in Books:

 

            "Trembling into Thought:  Approaching Coleridge through 'The Eolian Harp.'"  Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose.  Ed. Richard Matlak.  New York:  Modern Language Association of America, 1991.  69-75.

 

            "The Younger Romantics:  Teaching Shelley with Byron and Keats."  Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Poetry.  Ed. Spencer Hall.  New York:  Modern Language Association of America, 1990.  132-36.

 

            "Sympathy and Imagination:  Wordsworth and English Romantic Poetry."  Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry.  Ed. Spencer Hall.  New York:  Modern Language Asso­ciation of America, 1986.  130‑36.

 

            "Transcendental Tropes:  Coleridge's Rhetoric of Allegory and Symbol."  Allegory, Myth, and Symbol.  Ed. Morton W. Bloomfield.  Harvard English Studies, 9.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1981.  273‑92.

 

 

            Articles:

 

            "An Other Voice: Ventriloquism in the Romantic Period."  Romanticism On the Net 16 (November 1999 [Date of access]).  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/articles.html or  http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/hodgson.html

 

            "Decoding Poe?  Poe, W. B. Tyler, and Cryptography."  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92 (1993): 523-34.

 

            "Tidings:  Revolution in The Prelude."  Studies in Romanticism 31 (1992): 45-70.

 

            "The Recoil of 'The Speckled Band':  Detective Story and Detective Discourse."  Poetics Today 13 (1992): 309-24.  Reprinted in Sherlock Holmes and Contemporary Criticism.  Ed. John A. Hodgson.  Boston:  Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994.  335-52.

 

            "'Was It for This . . . ?':  Wordsworth's Virgilian Questionings."  Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33 (1991): 125-36.

            "Poems of the Imagination, Allegories of the Imagination:  Wordsworth's Preface of 1815 and the Redundancy of Imaginative Poetry."  Studies in Romanticism 27 (1988): 273-88.

 

            "Coleridge, Puns, and 'Donne's First Poem':  The Limbo of Rhetoric and the Conceptions of Wit."  John Donne Journal 4 (1985): 181‑200.

 

            "The Structures of Childe Harold III."  Studies in Roman­ticism 18 (1979): 363‑82.

 

            "Wordsworth Teaching:  'To Joanna.'"  The Wordsworth Circle 9 (1978): 362‑64.

 

            "Poe's Criticism:  The Circular Pursuit."  The Centennial Review 21 (1977): 140‑49.

 

            "Desdemona's Handkerchief as an Emblem of Her Repu­tation."  Texas Studies in Literature and Language 19 (1977): 313‑22.

 

            "Wordsworth's Dialectical Transcendentalism, 1798:  'Tintern Abbey.'"  Criticism 18 (1976): 367‑80.

 

            "The World's Mysterious Doom:  Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life.'"  ELH 42 (1975): 595‑622.  Reprinted in Modern Critical Interpretations:  "The Triumph of Life".  Ed. Harold Bloom.  New York:  Chelsea House, forthcoming.

 

            "'Logical Sequence and Continuity':  Some Observations on the Typograph­ical and Structural Consistency of Absalom, Absalom!"  American Literature 43 (1971): 97‑107.

 

 

            Notes:

 

            "An Allusion to Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet in The Picture of Dorian Gray."  English Language Notes 34 (1996): 41-45.

 

            "Coleridge's 'Coeli Enarrant' and a Source in Robinson Crusoe."  English Language Notes 25 (1987): 40-44.

 

            "The Date of Wordsworth's 'It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown.'"  Notes and Queries 224 (N. S. 26) (1979): 228‑29.

 

            "An Uncollected Poem by William Lisle Bowles."  Notes and Queries 222 (N. S. 24) (1977): 334‑35.

 

            "Left‑Right Opposition in The Nigger of the 'Nar­cissus'."  Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972): 207‑10.

 

 

            Reviews:

 

            Rev. of William Wordsworth:  A Life, by Stephen Gill.  Studies in Romanticism 31 (1992): 255-60.

 

            Rev. of Wordsworth and Philosophy:  Empiricism and Transcen­dentalism in the Poetry, by Keith G. Thomas.  The Wordsworth Circle 21 (1990): 151-52.

 

            Rev. of Wordsworth and Coleridge:  The Radical Years, by Nicholas Roe.  Studies in Romanticism 28 (1989): 499-506.

 

            Rev. of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Language of Allusion, by Lucy Newlyn.  Blake:  An Illustrated Quarterly 22 (1989): 122-24.

 

            Rev. of Wordsworth and The Recluse, by Kenneth R. Johnston.  Studies in Romanticism 27 (1988): 127-32.

 

            Rev. of Aspects of Wordsworth and Whitehead:  Philosophy and Certain Continuing Life‑Problems, by Alexander P. Cappon.  Philosophy and Literature 9 (1985): 116‑17.

 

            Rev. of Wordsworth's Metaphysical Verse:  Geometry, Nature, and Form, by Lee M. Johnson and Wordsworth's Vital Soul:  The Sacred and Profane in Wordsworth's Poetry, by J. R. Watson.  Studies in Romanticism 23 (1984): 121‑27.

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

 

            "An Other Voice:  Ventriloquism in the Romantic Period."  Special session on "Romantic Theatre and Its Other Stages," the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, 1997.

 

            "Wordsworth's Prelude:  Turning the Tide."  The Romanticism Seminar, Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, 1991.

 

            "Wordsworth's Virgilian Questionings."  Special session on "Virgil and the British Romantics," the Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., 1989.

 

            "'Simon Lee':  The Conditions of Revolution."  The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association of America Program on "The Value of Romanticism," the Modern Language Association Con­vention, San Francisco, 1987.

 

            "The Recoil of 'The Speckled Band.'"  Special session on "Sherlock Holmes:  A Centenary Session," the Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, 1987.

 

            "Shelley's Defense against Poetry."  Special session on "Shelley's Poetics Reconsidered," the Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, 1982.

 

 

PUBLIC LECTURES

 

“America’s First Ventriloquist:  The Real Richard Potter.”  Ragged Mountain Fish and Game Club, Potter Place, N. H., 2001.

 

            "Poe and Cryptography."  English Colloquium, Tufts University, 1993.

 

            "Dual-Career Couple Issues in Academe."  Office of Career Services Roundtable, Harvard University, 1992.

 

            Various lectures on Detective Fiction for the New Hampshire Humanities Council Discussion Program, 1990-present.

 

            "Freud's Metapsychology:  The Rhetoric of Argument, the Argument of Rhetoric."  The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Winter Forum on "Representing the Uncon­scious," the University of Georgia, 1985.

 

            "Coleridge's Rhetoric of Allegory and Symbol."  English Department Colloquium, Yale University, 1980.

 

            "Byron's Childe Harold III."  English Department Colloquium, Yale University, 1978.

 

            "Poe's Criticism."  American Literature Colloquium, Yale Univer­sity, 1976.