Prof George Rousseau's Biography

Prof George Rousseau's Professional Career

Career

Osgood fell in Eng lit then Woodrow Wilson dissertation fell Princeton Univ 1965-66, instr and asst prof Harvard Univ 1966-68, asst prof then assoc prof UCLA 1968-69, German state lectr W Germany univs 1970, hon fell Wolfson Coll Cambridge 1974-75, prof of Eng and eighteenth century studies UCLA 1976-93, Regius Chalmers prof of Eng Univ of Aberdeen 1994-98, research prof of humanities De Montfort Univ 1999-2002, prof Modern History Research Unit Univ of Oxford 2002-08; overseas fell Univ of Cambridge 1979, visiting fell commoner Trinity Coll Cambridge 1982, sr Fulbright research scholar Sir Thomas Browne Inst The Netherlands 1983, visiting exchange prof King's Coll Cambridge 1984, Clark Library prof Univ of California 1985-86, sr fell Nat Endowment for the Humanities 1986-87, Nat Endowment for the Humanities and Westfield Center lectr National Mozart Symposium 1990-91, visiting fell Magdalen Coll Oxford 1993-94, sr US Fulbright prof Univ of Lausanne Switzerland 1994, visiting professorial fell New Coll and Merton Coll Oxford 1999; chm Inst Memberships and prog chm annual meeting American Soc for Eighteenth Century Studies 1971-72, pres Western Soc for Eighteenth Century Studies 1985-86, chm and tstee Soc for Lit and Sci 1985-92; delg Museums, Libraries and Archives Cncl (MLA) Assembly 1971-74; memb Exec Ctee: Div on Lit and Sci MLA 1985-89, Div on Comparative Studies in Eighteenth Century Lit 1989-92; book reviewer NY Sunday Times 1967-; Louis Gottshalk Prize American Soc for Eighteenth Century Studies 1987; memb History of Science Soc 1966; Dr (hc) Univ of Bucharest 2007; FRSM 1967, fell American Cncl of Learned Socs 1970, FRSA 1973

Prof George Rousseau's Publications

Books and Publications

This Long Disease My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (co-author, 1968), English Poetic Satire (co-author, 1969), The Augustan Milieu: Essays Presented to Louis A Landa (jt ed, 1970), Tobias Smollett: Bicentennial Essays Presented to Lewis M Knapp (jt ed, 1971), Organic Form: The Life of an Idea (ed, 1972), Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage (1974), The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Science (1980), The Letters and Private Papers of Sir John Hill (1981), Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades (1982), Science and Imagination: The Berkeley Conference (ed, 1987), Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (co-author, 1987), The Enduring Legacy: Alexander Pope Tercentenary Essays (co-author, 1988), Exoticism in the Enlightenment (co-author, 1990), The Languages of Psyche: Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought (1990), Perilous Enlightenment: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: Sexual, Historical (1991), Enlightenment Crossings: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: Anthropological (1991), Enlightenment Borders: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: Medical, Scientific (1991), Hysteria Before Freud (co-author, 1993), Gout: The Patrician Malady (co-author, 1998), Framing and Imagining Disease (2003), Marguerite Yourcenar: Life and Times (2004), Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature and Culture (2005), Children and Sexuality: The Greeks to The Great War (ed, 2007), The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity (2012)

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