- William C. Dowling
William C. Dowling (born April 5,1944 in
Warner, New Hampshire ) is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature atRutgers University inNew Brunswick, New Jersey , specializing in eighteenth-century English literature, colonial American literature and literature of the early American Republic,Philosophy of Language , andLiterary Theory .Biography
Born in
Warner, New Hampshire , Dowling earned aBachelor of Arts (A.B.) atDartmouth College inHanover, New Hampshire , where he was editor of theDartmouth Jack-O-Lantern , the college humor magazine, a Senior Fellow in English, and recipient of the Perkins Prize in English and Classics. He received his Master of Arts (M.A.) andDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) fromHarvard University . Dowling is a past fellow of the [http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/ Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh] and theNational Humanities Center , and has heldGuggenheim ,National Endowment for the Humanities , and [http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/ Howard Foundation] fellowships. In 1995, he was Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He is past winner of the Richard Beale Davis Prize for work in early American literature and a [http://www.njch.org/ New Jersey Council of the Humanities] award for his book [http://www.upne.com/1-58465-579-8.html"Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table."]Dowling came to national attention in the 1990s through his work with the [http://members.aol.com/peithosophian/RU1000.html Rutgers 1000] campaign which fought for the removal of Division I sports from Rutgers. The original campaign voted to dissolve itself in 2002 when Francis L. Lawrence resigned from the presidency. In 2007, in the wake of a decision to finance a $102 million football stadium expansion when Rutgers was attempting to deal with a $65 million budgetary deficit, the campaign was revived by a group of Rutgers students, alumni, and faculty.
"Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University", Dowling's memoir of the Rutgers 1000 campaign, was the occasion of a long personal interview in "Inside Higher Education," [http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/27/dowling] and received substantial coverage in "The New York Times," "The Weekly Standard", "The Manchester Guardian", and other publications. Dowling is writing "Blossomberry Farm", a memoir of the folk-blues scene at Dartmouth in the 1960s, [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/blossom.htm] and "The Strange Death of Literary Studies", a memoir of teaching English and American literature over the last thirty-five years."'
Books
*"Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University" (Penn State Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-271-03293-1
* "Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, And the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (University Press of New England, 2006) ISBN 1-58465-579-8
* "A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest," with Robert H. Bell (Xlibris, 2005) ISBN 1-4134-8446-8 ( [http://rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ewcd/jestcomp.htm] )
* "The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory" (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) ISBN 0-8032-6617-0
* "Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and the Port Folio, 1801-1812" (University of South Carolina Press, 1999) ISBN 1-57003-243-2
* "The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991) ISBN 0-691-06891-7
* "Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut" (University of Georgia Press, 1990) ISBN 0-8203-1286-X
* "Jameson, Althusser, Marx: An Introduction to the Political Unconscious" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984) ISBN 0-8014-9284-X
* "Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981) ISBN 0-691-06455-5
* "The Boswellian Hero" (University of Georgia Press, 1979) ISBN 0-8203-0461-1
* "The Critic's Hornbook: Reading for interpretation" (Crowell, 1977) ISBN 0-690-00884-8
External links
* [http://www.rutgers.edu www.rutgers.edu] Rutgers University
* [http://english.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Department of English]
* [http://english.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/dowling.html Rutgers English Faculty Profile: William C. Dowling]
* [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/ William C. Dowling's page at Rutgers]
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