Faculty Directory
Rob Hume
Evan Pugh Professor of English
Contact:
31 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-2344
Rob-Hume@psu.edu
www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/h/b/hb1/
Office Hours:
Not Teaching
Educational History:
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Haverford College
Research Interests:
English drama and theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries; British literature (all genres) of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; literary criticism; theory of historical scholarship; history of opera
Major Publications:
A Bundle of Prologues (1777): The Unpublished Text of Garrick's Last Rehearsal Play, Review of English Studies, N58, pgs 482-499, 2007
Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Construction and Legitimation in Literary History (The Review of English Studies, 2005)
Death in Elizabeth Barry's Dressing Room (Yale University Library Gazette, 2005)
The Aims and Uses of "Textual Studies" (The Papers of the Biographical Society of America, 2005)
"Satire" in the Reign of Charles II (Modern Philology, 2005)
Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, Volume 2: The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath, 1789-1795 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001)
Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Italian Opera in Late-Eighteenth-Century London, Volume I: The King's Theatre Haymarket, 1778-1791 (Oxford University Press, 1995)
A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660-1737, 2 vols. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991)
Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737 (Oxford University Press, 1988)
John Downe's Roscius Anglicanus (Society for Theater Research, 1987)
Producible Interpretation: Eight English Plays, 1675-1707 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985)
The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1983)
Vice Chamberlain Coke's Theatrical Papers, 1706-1715 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1982)
The London Theatre World, 1660-1800 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1980)
Elizabeth Powhele's The Frolicks (Cornell University Press, 1977)
The Country Gentleman by Sir Robert Howard and the Duke of Buckingham (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976)
The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 1976)
Dryden's Criticism (Cornell University Press, 1970)
Books in Progress:
Theatre Finances in London, 1660-1800 , a book on The Economics of Culture in London, 1660-1820 .
Teaching Statement:
I particularly enjoy teaching 100- and 200-level undergraduate courses such as 184 (short story), 189 (modern drama), 221-222 (Norton Anthology surveys of British literature), and 268 (intro to drama). English 30 is a special favorite. At the graduate level I teach 18th-century courses but have also taught research methodology (with special stress on technology/computers), 20th-century theatre history, and contemporary feminist theatre.
