BA (Emory) MA, PhD (Chicago)
Emailshef.rogers@otago.ac.nz
Tel+64 3 479 8892
Office 1N7
First Floor
Arts Building
Albany Street
Dunedin
Mail English and Linguistics
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Scholarly interests
Bibliography, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, NZ Print Culture, Travel Writing
Teaching
- ENGL 127 Effective Writing
- ENGL 218 Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
- ENGL 312 Literature in the Age of Invention
- ENGL 337 Creative Writing: Travel Narratives
- ENGL 368 Engaging Literary Stories
- ENGL 404 A Topic in English Language
- ENGL 476 A Topic in English Literature 1660–1800: Voices in Print
- HUMS 501 Writing and Revision for Graduate Research
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 working on a book on the early publications of Alexander Pope.
Publications
Rogers, S. (2021). Presenting "truth" in early eighteenth-century travel narratives: The case of Leendert Hasenbosh. Eighteenth-Century Life, 45(1), 21-46. doi: 10.1215/00982601-8793923
Rogers, S. (2019). Imprints, imprimaturs, and copyright pages. In D. Duncan & A. Smyth (Eds.), Book parts. (pp. 51-64). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Fielding, D., & Rogers, S. (2017). Copyright payments in eighteenth-century Britain, 1701–1800. Library, 18(1), 3-44. doi: 10.1093/library/18.1.3
Fielding, D., & Rogers, S. (2017). Monopoly power in the eighteenth-century British book trade. European Review of Economic History, 21(4), 393-413. doi: 10.1093/ereh/hex007
Rogers, S. (2017). The instructive power of the fable in New Zealand’s Native School Reader (1886). History of Education Review, 46(1), 33-41. doi: 10.1108/HER-11-2014-0043