James Woolley
Frank Lee and Edna M. Smith Professor and Associate Head
Ph.D., Chicago
woolleyj@lafayette.edu
(610) 330-5246
303 Pardee Hall
Teaching and research interests: the literature and social history of the long 18th century (1660-1820); satire; the novel; poetry; songs; literary research methods; the history of the book; digital humanities; analytic bibliography
Selected publications:
Swift’s Later Poems: Studies in Circumstances and Texts. New York: Garland, 1988.
The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan. (A critical edition.) Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
“Swift’s ‘Skinnibonia’: A New Poem from Lady Acheson’s Manuscript.” Reading Swift. Ed. Hermann J. Real. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2008. 309-42.
“Finding English Verse, 1650-1800: First-Line Indexes and Searchable Electronic Texts.” 10th ed. BibSite. 2013. http://www.bibsocamer.org/BibSite/Woolley/index.pdf.
Work in progress: with Stephen Karian (University of Missouri), an edition of the poems volumes of the Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift and a freely accessible web archive of Swift’s poems. These two projects are being supported by a Scholarly Editions Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Honors: Jones Award for Teaching and Scholarship; Student Government Award for Superior Teaching; Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching: Guggenheim Fellowship; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
