Stephen
Karian
Department of English, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-3469
https://academic.mu.edu/engl/karians/
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. English, 2001.
Dissertation: "Jonathan Swift and
the Practices of Eighteenth-Century Authorship."
M.A. English, 1992.
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
B.A. English, 1991.
Associate Professor, English Department, Marquette
University, Fall 2010 to present.
Assistant Professor, English Department, Marquette
University, 2003 to 2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Marquette
University, 2001 to 2003.
Undergraduate
Courses: Rhetoric and Composition 1 and 2; Honors English 1 and 2; Survey of
English Literature 1 and 2; Shakespeare's Major Plays; Seventeenth-Century British
Literature; The Ages of Dryden and Pope; The Age of Johnson; Individual
Authors: Jonathan Swift; and Classics and Remakes.
Graduate
Courses: Introduction to Modern Critical Theory and Practice; English Verse
Satire, 1660-1750; and Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Books:
Jonathan
Swift in Print and Manuscript (Cambridge University Press, 2010) (limited
preview on Google Books).
Eighteenth-Century
Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, co-editor
with Howard D. Weinbrot and Peter J. Schakel (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001).
Reviewed by
Lorna Clymer, Huntington
Library Quarterly 66 (2003): 191-98 (JSTOR or ProQuest); M. A. Box, Notes and Queries,
n.s. 51 (2004): 93-95; and W. A. Speck, Literature &
History, 3rd ser. 13 (2004): 89-90.
Articles:
"Swifts First Poem: 'Ode to the Honourable
Sir William Temple,'"
Huntington
Library Quarterly 71 (2008): 489-501 (ProQuest).
"Edmund Curll and the Circulation of Swift's Writings," in Reading
Swift: Papers from the Fifth Mnster Symposium on
Jonathan Swift, ed. Hermann J. Real (Wilhelm Fink, 2008), 99-129.
"Swift,
Arbuckle, and The
Beasts' Confession to the Priest," Swift Studies 21 (2006): 87-106.
Reviewed in English and
American Studies in German (2006): 43 and by Nora F. Crow, The Scriblerian
40.1-2 (2007-08): 76-77.
"Authors
of the Mind: Some Notes on the QSUM Attribution Theory," Studies in
Bibliography 57 (2005-06): 263-86 (Project
Muse).
"The
Authorial Strategies of Swift's Verses on the Death," in Representations of Swift,
ed. Brian A. Connery (University of Delaware Press, 2002), 77-98.
"The
Texts of Gulliver's
Travels," in Les Voyages de Gulliver: Mondes Lointains ou Mondes
Proches, ed. Daniel Carey and Franois Boulaire (Presses Universitaires
de Caen, 2002), 35-50.
Reviewed in The Scriblerian 37-38 (2005): 66-67.
"Reading
the Material Text of Swift's Verses on the Death," SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41
(2001): 515-44 (JSTOR or Project
Muse).
Winner of the
Richard H. Rodino Prize.
Reviewed by
Peter M. Briggs, The
Scriblerian 35 (2002-03): 35-36.
"Swift's
Epitaph for Stella?: A Recently Discovered
Document," Swift
Studies 16 (2001): 109-13.
Reviewed by
Nora F. Crow, The
Scriblerian 36 (2002-03): 151-52.
"Problems
and Paratexts in Eighteenth-Century Collections of
Swift," Studies
in the Literary Imagination 32.1 (1999): 59-80 (EBSCOhost or ProQuest).
Reviews:
A Tale of a
Tub, The Battle of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit edited by
Frank H. Ellis, The
Scriblerian 41 (2009): 199-201.
Patriotism and
Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin Griffin, The Scriblerian 37 (2004): 62-64.
"Some
Current Publications," Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 23
(1999): 57-67.
Other:
Entries on
Apparatus, Attribution, Bibliography, Print Culture, and Textual Criticism in The Oxford
Companion to the Book, 2 vols., ed. Michael F.
Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010).
Regular
Research Grant, Marquette University, 2009.
Summer Faculty
Fellowship, Marquette University, 2009.
Faculty Development
Award, Marquette University, 2007.
Regular
Research Grant, Marquette University, 2006.
Summer Faculty
Fellowship, Marquette University, 2006.
Summer Faculty
Fellowship, Marquette University, 2004.
Summer
Stipend Fellowship, National Endowment for the
Humanities, 2003.
Irish-American
Research Travel Fellowship, American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003.
Richard H. Rodino Prize, Ehrenpreis Center
for Swift Studies, Mnster, Germany, 2002.
Aubrey
Williams Research Travel Award, American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2000.
William
Freeman Vilas Travel Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.
Ernst Philip Goldschmidt Fellowship,
Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1998.
Nancy Hoefs Fellowship, English Department, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 1998-2000.
Organized and
Hosted:
Johnson
Society of the Central Region.
Milwaukee, April 2007.
"Recent
Developments in the Scholarship of Jonathan Swift,"
Speakers: Hermann
J. Real, James Woolley, Michael J. Conlon, and Claude Rawson. Madison, February 2001.
Presented
Papers:
"The Publication
and Composition of A Tale of a Tub,"
Johnson
Society for the Central Region, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2010.
"Why Did
Swift Publish A Tale of a Tub in 1704?,"
British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford, England, January 2010.
"The
Importance of Swift's Trifles,"
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon, March 2008.
"The Rise
and Fall of Edmund Curll as
Distributor of Texts,"
British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford, England, January 2008.
"The Extra
Lines of Swift's 'On Poetry: A Rapsody,'"
British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford, England, January 2007.
"Edmund Curll and the Circulation of Swift's Writings,"
Fifth Mnster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, Mnster,
Germany, May 2006.
"The
Circulation of Swift's Late Poetry,"
Johnson
Society for the Central Region, Columbia, Missouri, April 2005.
"Print
Culture and A Tale of a Tub: Beyond the Grub Street Paradigm,"
Dublin
Symposium on Jonathan Swift, Dublin, Ireland, October 2004.
"Toward a Taxonomy of Literary Piracy Within and Across National
Boundaries,"
International
Congress on the Enlightenment, Los Angeles, August 2003.
Colloquium
speaker, "Current
Research in Print Culture,"
Center for the
History of Print Culture in Modern America and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies, Madison, April
2003.
"Jonathan
Swift and the Author of A Tale of a Tub,"
East-Central
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, October
2002.
"Ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style': Debating Attribution
in the Long Eighteenth Century,"
Johnson
Society for the Central Region, Notre Dame, May 2002.
"From the
Coffee House to the Bookshop: The Practice of Anonymity in Late Seventeenth and
Early Eighteenth Century London,"
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, April 2001.
"Scribal
Publication in Eighteenth-Century England and Ireland: The Case of Swift,"
East-Central
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Norfolk, Virginia, October
2000.
Colloquium
Speaker, "Readers,
Writers, and Printers in England: A Case Study,"
Center for the
History of Print Culture in Modern America and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies, Madison,
September 1999.
"Swift's
Collections and the Problem of Textual Authority,"
International
Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, July 1999.
"Script,
Print, Author, and Public in Swift's Verses on the Death,"
Society for
the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Madison, July 1999.
"Material
Witness: The Dilemma of Authorship in Swift's Verses on the Death,"
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, March 1999.
"Authorial
Control and Textual Instability in Swift's Miscellanies in Prose and
Verse,"
Mid-Western
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chicago, October 1997.
Other:
Moderator, "Education
and Ideology,"
18th and 19th
Century British Women Writers' Conference, Madison, April 2002.
Assistant Book
Review Editor, American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Reviews Online, Summer
1999 to Summer 2001.
Assistant
Editor, American Literary History, Summer 1998 to Summer 2000.
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May 14, 2010