Educational History:
Ph.D. McMaster University, Ontario
M.A. Carleton University
B.A. Carleton University

Research Interests:
18th-century English literature; 18th-century Irish literature; colonial American literature and culture; the classics in early modern culture; the image of Socrates in English letters to 1800; physiognomy; the early modern history of ancient philosophy

Awards:
Canada Council-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1978-80; 1980-81
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1977-78
McMaster University Graduate Scholarship, 1977-81
Carleton University School of Graduate Studies Scholarship, 1975-77

Research Awards & Grants:
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2003
Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, Research Fellowship (New York Historical Society), 2003
American Philosophical Society Library Research Fellowship, 2003
Rockefeller Library Fellowship, Colonial Williamsburg, 2003
Virginia Historical Society, 2003
Library Company of Philadelphia-Pennsylvania Historical Society Mellon Fellowship, 2002
McMaster University Library-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship, 2001
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Research Fellowship, 1996
Canadian Studies Program, Canadian Embassy to the United States, Faculty Research Grant, 1991
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel to International Conference Grant, 1987; 1990
Folger Institute for Renaissance and 18th-Century Studies, Folger Seminar Fellowship, 1986
Newberry Library, Short-Term Fellowship, 1985

Professional Honors:
Teacher of the Year, Penn State Shenango, 1996
Mentor of the Year, Penn State, 1995

Major Publications:
Berland, Kevin, Jan Kirsten Gilliam, and Kenneth W. Lockridge, eds. The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover. (2001)

Other Publications:
"Chesterfield Demands the Muse: Dublin Print Culture, Poetry and the 'Irish' Voice, 1745-6." Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris and dá chultúr, 17 (2002): 121-145.
"The Paradise Garden and the Imaginary East: Alterity and Reflexivity in British Orientalist Romances." The Eighteenth-Century Novel, 2 (2002): 137-59.
"'The Air of a Porter: Lichtenberg and Lavater Test Physiognomy by Looking at Dr. Johnson." The Age of Johnson, 10 (1999): 219-230.
"William Byrd's Sexual Lexicography." Eighteenth Century Life, 23, n.s. 1 (February, 1999): 1-11.
"A City Endlessly Rewritten: Some Eighteenth-Century Version of Rome." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34, 2 (Winter 2001): 287-98 (review essay).
"William Byrd's Scriblerian Stories." Scriblerian, 31, 2-32, 1 (Spring & Autumn 1999): 231-34 [with Jan K. Gilliam and Kenneth W. Lockridge].
"The Marks of Character: Physiology and Physiognomy in Absalom and Achitophel. " Philological Quarterly, 76, 3 (Spring 1997): 193-218.
"The Bangorian Controversy," "Edmund Burke (1729-1797)," and "William Law (1686-1761)," in Britain in the Hanoverian Age 1714: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gerald Newman et al. (New York: Garland, 1997), pp. 41-2, 82-4, 398-99.
"Frances Moore Brooke," and "Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan," two chapters of annotated bibliography, in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists: A Critical Reference Guide, ed. Doreen Alvarez Saar and Mary Anne Schofield (New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1996, pp. 18-43.
"Reading character in the face: Lavater, Socrates, and physiognomy." Word and Image, 9, 3 (July-September 1993): 252-69.
"Didactic, Catechetical, or Obstetricious: Socrates and 18th-Century Dialogue," in Compendious Conversations: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Dialogue, ed. Kevin L. Cope. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1992. pp. 93-104.
"Dialogue into drama: Socrates in 18th-century verse dramas." Themes in Drama (Cambridge University Press), 12 (1990): 127-41.
"Frances Brooke and David Garrick." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 20 (1990): 217-30.
"A Tax on Old Maids and Bachelors: Frances Brooke's Old Maid, " in Eighteenth Century Women and Literature, ed. Frederick Keener and Susan Lorsch. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. pp. 29-36.
"The True Epicurean Philosopher: Some Influences on Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague." Dalhousie Review, 66 (1986): 286-300.
"Bringing Philosophy Down from the Heavens: Socrates and the New Science." Journal of the History of Ideas, 47 (1986): 299-308.
"Scott's Dryden: The Whig Interpretation of Literary History." Restoration, 9, 1 (1985): 2-8.
"The Way of Caution: Elenchus in Bacon's Essays." Renaissance and Reformation-renaissance et reforme, N.S. 9, 1 (1985): 44-57.
"Satire and the via media : Anglican Dialogue in Joseph Andrews ," in Satire in the 18th Century, ed. John Browning. New York: Garland, 1983. pp. 44-57.
"Johnson's Life-Writing and the Life of Dryden," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 23 (1982): 197-218.

National Professional Service:
Elected Member at Large, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2001-2004
Corresponding Editor, Eighteenth-Century Life
Editorial reader for British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Novel, Philological Quarterly, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, William and Mary Quarterly
Founder and editor of C18-L, since 1990 the primary international online forum for 18th-century studies across the disciplines: http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/c18-l.htm
Editor of Selected Readings, an online running bibliography of current scholarship in 18th-century studies: http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htm
Member of the editorial board of c18, the online project of the Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire: www.c18.org