 Professor of EnglishAssociate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education and Associate Dean of the Graduate School Office: Hellems 122 Telephone: 303-492-1986 E-mail: John.Stevenson@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Eighteenth-century literature and culture
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1983
B.A., Duke University, 1975
Publications
Books
The Real History of Tom Jones. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
The British Novel, Defoe to Austen: A Critical History. G.K. Hall, 1990
Essays
“Doing More Good, Doing Less Harm: Some Trends in Graduate Education.” ADE Bulletin, forthcoming
"Fielding's Mousetrap: Partridge, Hamlet, and the '45." SEL (1997): 553-71
"'Alien Spirits': The Unity of Lovelace and Clarissa." New Essays on Samuel Richardson. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. St. Martin's Press, 1996, 85-99
"Black George and the Black Act." Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1996): 355-82
"Tom Jones and the Stuarts." ELH 61 (1994): 571-95
"Tom Jones, Jacobitism, and the Rise of Gothic." Gothick Origins and Innovations. Ed. Allan Lloyd Smith and Victor Sage. Rodopi, 1994, 16-22
"Sterne: Comedian and Experimental Novelist." The Columbia History of the British Novel. Ed. John Richetti. Columbia Univ. Press, 1994, 154-80
"'Nelly, Heathcliff is Me!': Wuthering Heights and the Question of Likeness." Nineteenth-Century Literature (June 1988): 60-81
"'Never in a Vile House': Knowledge and Experience in Richardson." Literature and Psychology 34, 1: 4-17
"A Vampire in the Mirror: The Sexuality of Dracula." PMLA (March 1988): 139-49
"'A Geometry of His Own': Richardson and the Marriage-Ending." SEL (1986): 469-83
"The Courtship of the Family: Clarissa and the Harlowes Once More." ELH 48 (1981): 757-77
Selected honors and awards
Kayden Book Prize for The Real History of Tom Jones, CU Boulder, 2007
Elizabeth Wiegers Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1992
Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Teaching Award, 1990