Klancher 2
Jon Klancher
Curriculum Vitae
Department of English Home Address:
Carnegie Mellon University 208 Essex Knoll Drive
5000 Forbes Ave. Moon, PA 15108
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-mail:
Phone: 412-268-2852 Tel. 412-251-3593
Education
PhD Department of English, UCLA, 1981
MA Department of English, UCLA, 1975
BA Department of English, Pitzer College, 1972
Academic Appointments
Carnegie Mellon University, 1999--Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies
Boston University, 1986-99--Assistant and Associate Professor of English
California Institute of Technology, 1984-86--Postdoctoral Fellow, Div. of Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles, 1981-84--Visiting Lecturer in Literature
Fellowships and Awards
Charles Watts Visiting Professorship in the History of the Book,
Brown University, 2003-2004
Senior Fellow, Humanities Foundation, Boston University, 1997-98
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1990-91
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1989-90
Junior Fellow, Humanities Foundation, Boston University, 1988-89
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech, 1984-86
Regents Intern Fellowship, UCLA, 1972-76
Books
Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age. Cambridge University Press, in press, forthcoming September 2013.
Editor, A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
The Making of English Reading Audiences, 17901832. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Book and Journal Articles
”Remediating Art Controversy in the Nineteenth Century” in Outrage: Art,
Controversy, and Society, ed. Andreea Ritivoi, Judith Schachter, and Richard Howells (New York: Palgrave, 2012): 239-62.
“Configuring Romanticism and Print History: The Making of English Reading Audiences
in Retrospect,” European Romantics Review 23 (2012): 373-79.
“Wild Bibliography: The Rise and Fall of Book History in Nineteenth-Century Britain,”
Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity 1700-1900, ed. Ina Ferris and Paul Keen (New York: Palgrave, 2009): 19-41.
“Introduction,” A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Jon Klancher.
(New York: Blackwell-Wiley, 2009): 1-13.
“Discriminations, or Romantic Cosmopolitanism in London,” in Romantic
Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840, eds. James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006) pp. 165-84.
“William Hazlitt,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. Nancy
Armstrong and David Kastan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
“British Romantic Criticism,” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Criticism and Theory,
Second Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2004).
“Presentism and the Archives,” Praxis, an on-line interdisciplinary publication of
Romantic Circles (March 2002)
“The Vocation of Criticism and the Crisis of the Republic of Letters,” a chapter in
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, volume 5: European Romanticism, ed. Marshall Brown (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000): pp. 296-320.
"Prose and the Language of Public Culture" for The Oxford Companion to Romanticism:
British Culture, 1776-1837, ed. Iain McCalman (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999): 211-222.
"Godwin and the Genre Reformers: On Necessity and Contingency in Romantic
Narrative Theory," in Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998): 21-38.
Introduction, “Romanticism and Its Publics: A Forum,” Studies in Romanticism 33
(1995): 523-25. Ed., Romanticism and Its Publics Forum with essays by James Chandler, William Keach, Mary Favret, Anne Mellor, Kevin Gilmartin, and Orrin Wang.
"Godwin and the Republican Romance: Genre, Politics, and Contingency in Cultural
History," MLQ: A Journal of Literary History 56 (1994):147-67.
Reprinted in Eighteenth Century Literary History, ed. Marshall Brown (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999): 180-199.
"Romantic and Early Nineteenth-Century British Criticism" in The Johns Hopkins Guide
to Criticism and Theory, ed. Martin Kreiswirth and Michael Grodin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993): 112-16
"Transmission Failure: From the London Lecturing Empire to the Collected Coleridge,”
in Theoretical Issues in Literary History, volume 16 of Harvard Literary Studies, ed. David Perkins (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991): 173-95.
"British Periodicals and Reading Publics" in Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism,
ed. Peter Garside and Martin Price. London: Routlege, 1991: 876-88.
"English Romanticism and Cultural Production," in The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram
Veeser (New York and London: Routledge, 1989): 77-88.
"Bakhtin's Rhetoric" in Reclaiming Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of the Classroom,
ed. Ellen Quandahl (Carbondale: So. llinois Univ. Press, 1989): 8396.
Reprinted in Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing, a volume in the Landmark Essay Series ed. Frank M. Farmer (New York: Hermagoras Press, 1998).
"Romantic Criticism and the Meanings of the French Revolution," Studies in
Romanticism 28 (1989): 183-204.
“Reading the Social Text: Power, Signs, and Audience in Early NineteenthCentury
Prose," Studies in Romanticism 23 (1984) : 183204.
"From Crowd to Audience: The Making of an English Mass Readership in the Nineteenth
Century," ELH 50 (1983): 15573.
Book Reviews
Review of This Is Enlightenment ed. by Clifford Siskin and William Warner;
coauthored with Alan Bewell, Christina Lupton, and Ted Underwood, Studies
in Romanticism 50 (Winter 2012): 531-47.
Review of The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building by
Trish Loughran in Publishing Research Quarterly 26 (2010): 146-49.
Review of States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth
-Century Britain and the United States by Oz Frankel, in Victorian Studies 50 (Spring 2008): 340-42
Review of The Twilight of the Literary by Terry Cochran, in New Formations
(November 2004)
“Inventing the Spirit of the Age,” a review of England in 1819 by James Chandler, in
Times Literary Supplement (18 September 1998): 4-6
"The Return of William Godwin," a review-essay on An Enquiry Concerning Political
Justice by William Godwin (facsimile edition) The Wordsworth Circle, (1994)
Review of Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 5, Lectures 1808-1819
On Literature, ed. Reginald Foakes, in Huntington Library Quarterly 53 (1990): 157-61.
“What Critical Intellectuals Do Now," a review essay Criticism and Social Change
by Frank Lentricchia; Foucault, Marxism & History by Mark Poster; and On Signs by Marshall Blonsky, in College English 49 (1987): 2028.
Review of The Politics of Language by Olivia Smith, and Culture, Politics, and Class in
the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt, in Huntington Library Quarterly 49 (1986): 40914.
Recent Courses Taught
Graduate
Modernity and the Sociology of Culture (2010)
Cultural History of Books and Reading 1450-1950 (2012, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2003)
Periodizing Cultural History: The Case of Romanticism (2007)
Romanticism and the Cultural Contradictions of Taste (2006, 2009)
Romanticism and the Politics of Knowledge (2013)
Genealogy of Literary and Cultural Studies (2005-6)
The Sociology of Culture (2002, 2005, 2008, 2012)
Electrifying the Victorians (2007, 2010)
Romanticism and the Clash of Print Cultures (2005)
Undergraduate
Electrifying the Victorians: Sciences, Literature, Culture (2007, 2010)
History of Critical Ideas: Reading and Spectatorship (2006, 2008, 2013)
Victorian Writing, Postmodern Interpretation (2006)
Controversial Victorians (2005, 2012)
Books and Readers in Cultural History, 1450-1850 (2011, 2003)
Literature and the Sciences: From Evolution to Information (2003)
Interpretive Practices (2012, 2010, 2009)
Administrative and Professional Activity
Director, Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English 2012—
Acting Chair, English BA Committee, 2012-13
Co-Director, Public Art Cluster of the Center for Arts in Society, 2008-2011
With John Carson, Head of the School of Art: this is a cross-disciplinary research
initiative partially funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Media @ Pitt center to sponsor
lectures and events in digital humanities at Carnegie Mellon. 2010--
Referee, ACLS New Faculty program, Fall 2010—at both Carnegie Mellon and national
levels of competition.
Faculty Senate, 2008-10, Carnegie Mellon
Director, Public Arts Research Workshop
Center for Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University 2006-2008
Archive of Controversy in the Arts, Center for Arts in Society 2005--2007
Director, Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English, 2001-2005
Appointments, Promotions, Tenure Committee; Faculty Council Academic Procedures
Committee; Academic Conduct Committee; Academic Policy Committee.
Department of English, Boston University, 1986-99
Consulting reader for Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, PMLA, European
Romantics Review, Studies in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, W.W. Norton and for the Chicago, Cambridge, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Toronto and Virginia university presses
MLA Executive Committee, English Romantic Period, Modern Language Assoc., 2003-7
Outside examiner, viva voce, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK (2004)
Tenure reviews for Harvard University., University of California, Berkeley; University of
Minnesota, Wellesley College, University of Utah, Northwestern University, Colby College, and others.
Referee, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1990-99
Advisory Boards: NBOL: Nineteenth-Century Books On Line; Romantic Circles
and Romantic Chronology (World Wide Web)
Papers and Lectures
“Living the “Arts and Sciences”: Print, Mediation, and Cultural Institutions, 1800-1830,”
invited speaker, Interpersonal Print conference, McGill University, Montreal,
March 20-23, 2013
Respondent, “The University of Romanticism” panel, MLA, 3 January 2013, Boston
“The Prosaic ‘Arts and Sciences’: Disciplines and Public Discourse in Britain,
1800-1830,” invited speaker, The Prosaic Nineteenth Century conference
Rutgers University Center for British Studies, 30 November 2012.
“The Making of English Reading Audiences in Retrospect,” North American Society for
the Study of Romanticism, invited speaker, , Park City, Utah, 12 August 2011
“The Myth of the ‘Real Reader’: Issues in the Historicity of Reading,” MLA Convention,
Los Angeles, 9 January 2011
“The Media Turn 1800/2000,” University of Zurich, English Department, invited
Lecture, 12 November 2010.
“Transfiguring the ‘Arts & Sciences’ in the Romantic Age” graduate and faculty
Colloquium presentation, 12 November 2010, English Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
“Ekmediaphrasis: Print, The Artist, and the Romantic Field of Art Practice,” North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Vancouver, 19 August 2010
“New Directions in Visual Studies” for the Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium,
Carnegie Mellon, 1 April 2010
“Predisciplinarity and the Book,” plenary panel for Romantic Disorder Conference,
University of London, 20 June 2009
“The Material Book and the Bibliographical Thing,” Romantic Disorder Conference, University
of London, 19 June 2009
“Public Art Controversies and Eighteenth-Century Questions,” Late-Eighteenth Century
Division, MLA, San Francisco, 29 December 2008
“’Centres of Action, Centres of Attraction’: Henry Bence-Jones and the Victorian
Institutional History,” North American Victorian Studies Association, Yale Univ., November 2008
“Wild Bibliography,” Bookish Histories conference, invited speaker, University of Ottawa,
10 August 2007
Panelist, “Interrogating Reading Nation with William St. Clair,” Division for the
Later Eighteenth Century, MLA, Philadelphia, December 29, 2006
Chair and organizer, “Practices of Taste,” panel for Division on the English Romantic
Period, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 29, 2006
“The Administrator as Cultural Producer: Thomas Bernard, Social Welfare, and the ‘Arts &
Sciences’,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Purdue University, September 1, 2006
“The Sociology of a Phrase: ‘Arts & Sciences’,” Faculty Workshop Leader, NASSR,
Purdue University, September 2, 2006
“The Bibliographer’s Tale: The Rise and Fall of Book History in Britain, 1797-1825”
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Montreal, 31 March 2006
= Chair and organizer, “Romantic Revolutions in the Twenty-first Century,” MLA,
Washington D.C., 28 December 2005
Discussant for Thora Brylowe’s paper, “The Codex and the Collection: Sir William Hamilton’s
Vases in Print,” at the “Material Cultures and the Creation of Knowledge” conference, University of Edinburgh, 10 July 2005
“Modernity and the Madness for Books, 1800/2000” Lectures in Criticism Series,
Boston University, 11 April 2004.
“Bibliographia Literaria: The Rise of Book History in Britain, 1800-1814,” The
Humanities Center, Harvard University, 24 February 2004
“Scientific Print Culture and Historical Bibliography,” MLA convention, San Diego,
28 December 2003.
“The Theme of Lost Writers: Mary Robinson and William Hazlitt,” NASSR
Conference, New York, 3 August 2003
“Who Made the History of Print Culture? Scenes from a Debate,” English Department
Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon University, 16 April 2003
“Romantic Figures, Radical Numbers: On Quantitative Methods in Literary History”
MLA Convention, New Orleans, 28 December 2001
Respondent, “Romantic Lecturing” session, North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism conference, University of Washington, Seattle, 14 August 2001
“Vision and Division in the Romantic Subject,” North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism conference on “Romantic Subjects,” Seattle, 13 August 2001
Respondent to panels on “Romantic-Era Science”: “The Life Sciences,” “Sex and Gender,”
“Intersections of Poetry and Science” for the English Romantics Division, MLA Convention, Washington D.C., 28-30 December 2000.
“The Romantic Group: Notes on a Symbolic Hypothesis in Cultural History,” invited
Lecture for the Washington Area Romanticism Group, University of Maryland, 23 October 2000.
“The Contradictions of Cosmopolis: London, 1770-1830” Romantic Metropolis
confere nce, Huntington Library, 28 January 1999
“The Words of Public Culture and the Rites of Institution in Romantic-Age Britain,”
Carnegie Mellon University, 19 January 1999
“Fields and Publics: Bourdieu, Habermas, and the History of Criticism,” MLA Convention,
San Francisco, 29 December 1998
“Vocations, Professions, Critical Fields: Romanticism and the Crisis of the Republic of
Letters,” Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, 7 March 1998
“The End of the Republic of Letters,” Boston University Humanities Foundation
Council, 20 February 1998
Plenary speaker, “Romantic Critical Crossings: Complexity, Emergence, Disciplinarity, and
Networks,” NASSR Conference, Boston, 6 November 1996
"Complexity and Organization in the Romantic Age of Scientific Revolution" California
Institute of Technology, 5 May 1996
"High Theory, Low Theory: The Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies," NASSR Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 14 July 1995
"Bourdieu, Science, and the Field of Cultural Studies," University of New Hampshire, Durham,
New Hampshire, 9 March 1995
"Hazlitt's Economic Aesthetics," MLA Convention, San Diego, 28 December 1994
"Cultural Criticism and the Public Sphere in the Romantic Age," American Studies Program,
Boston University, 1 December 1994
"Enlightenment Reviewing and the Transformation of Literature," Society for the History
of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Washington D.C., 16 July 1994
Organizer and moderator, “Romanticism and Its Publics,” two panels at the MLA convention,
Toronto, 28-30 December 1993
“Godwin’s Reflex: Genre Reform and the British Culture Industry in the 1790s,” North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism, inaugural conference, London, Ontario, 14 August 1993