Peter Shillingsburg
Professor Emeritus
Fields of scholarly interest in teaching and publication: textual studies (including bibliography, textual criticism, editorial theory and practice, and book history); and 19-20th Cent. English and American Lit., particularly William Makepeace Thackeray, but also Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Gilmore Simms, Joyce Cary, A S Byatt, Virginia Woolf, J M Coetzee, and John Fowles.
Education
- Ph.D., English Literature, 1970, University of South Carolina.
Dissertation: The Text of Thackeray's Pendennis (a scholarly edition) - M.A., American Literature, 1967, University of South Carolina
Thesis: The Use of Sources in Simms's Biography of Francis Marion - B.A., Secondary Education, English, 1966, University of South Carolina
Professional Employment
- Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies, Loyola Univ. Chicago, 2008-2013.
- Professor of English and Chairman of the Center for Textual Scholarship at DeMontfort Univ., Leicester, UK, 2003-2008.
- Professor of English at the Univ. of North Texas, 1999-2003.
- Visiting Prof., Univ. of New South Wales, Australian Defense Forces Academy, 1989.
- Giles Distinguished Prof. Mississippi State Univ. 1970-1997.
Publications/Research Listings
Books:
- Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age. English Dept., Royal Military College, U of New South Wales, 1984. Rev. Ed. U Of Georgia Press, 1986. 3rd, Rev. Ed., U. Michigan Press, 1996.
- Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray. U Press of Virginia, 1992.
- Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning. U Michigan Press, 1998.
- William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life. London: Palgrave, 2001.
- From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. Cambridge UP, 2006; Japanese translation, 2009; Italian translation pending.
- Textuality and Knowledge: Essays. Penn State University Press, 2017.
- Textual Criticism as the Curation of Texts. A collection of essays pending translation into Czech.
Books Edited:
- W. M. Thackeray, scholarly edition, 10 vols.
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.
Articles in multiple journals on subjects in my field of interest.
Lectures delivered in 16 countries outside the USA and on all continents, save Antarctica.