Dr Shef Rogers
BA (Emory) MA, PhD (Chicago)
| shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 8892 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1N7 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
Bibliography, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, NZ Print Culture, Travel Writing
Teaching
ENGL 312 The Art of Reading in Enlightenment England
ENGL 368 Approaches to Writing about Literature
ENGL 476 A Topic in English Literature 1660-1800
Research and Possible Supervision
I have supervised work on editing poetry (Luke Shepherd); servants in Fielding and Smollett, eighteenth-century travel accounts, and NZ book history. I am also happy to supervise studies of travel accounts; NZ book history; eighteenth-century poetry or other literature, satire, most aspects of bibliography or editorial practice, and the use of computers in research or teaching.
Current Research
I am currently editing a Bibliography of eighteenth-century travel writing and collaborating with a group of other scholars on a history of the book in New Zealand.
Publications
Editor
Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2010. For more details, see Script & Print.
Edited Books
Rewriting the Long Eighteenth Century: Selected Proceedings of the XIIIth David Nichol Smith Seminar, ed. Jocelyn Harris and Shef Rogers, special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life (Duke University Press, 2008).
Articles
'New Zealand' entry, and seven other minor bibliographical terms, for the Oxford Companion to the Book, ed. Henry Woudhuysen and Michael Suarez, S.J. (Oxford University Press, 2010).
'Enlarging the Prospects of Happiness: Travel Reading and Travel Writing 1695–1830' in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 5, ed. Michael Suarez, S.J. and Michael Turner (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
'An Extra Echo to Swift's Epigraph for Gulliver's Travels,' Notes and Queries 235:326 (2008).
Chapter in Books
'Alexander Pope: Perceived Patron, Misunderstood Mentor,' Chapter 3 of Varieties of Mentoring Experience: Authority and Influence in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, ed Tony Lee (Ashgate, 2009).
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