Ronald Paulson
Encyclopedia
Ronald Paulson is an American
professor
of English, a specialist in English
18th-century art and culture, and English artist
William Hogarth
.
in 1952 and his doctorate degree in 1958.
from 1959 to 1963 and Rice University
from 1963 to 1967. He was the Chairman of the Johns Hopkins University
English Department from 1967 to 1975. From 1975 to 1984 he was a professor
at Yale University and served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department from 1976 to 1983 and the Director of the British Studies Program from 1976 to 1984.
Paulson returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1984, serving as the Department Chairmen fro 1985 to 1991.
He has been a member of the editorial board of the academic journal
ELH: English Literary History
and has been the senior editor of the journals Studies in English Literature; PMLA; Eighteenth-Century Studies
; and the Johns Hopkins University Press.
and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London
from 1975 to 1984. He has also been Guggenheim Fellow
(1965–66, 1986–87), an NEH Senior Fellow (1977–78), and a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation
(1978, 1987).
In 1988, Paulson traveled with several humorists from the United States to the Soviet Union
as part of a cultural exchange.
United States
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professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of English, a specialist in English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
18th-century art and culture, and English artist
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
William Hogarth
William Hogarth
William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...
.
Education
Paulson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in 1952 and his doctorate degree in 1958.
Academic career
Paulson has taught and held various administrative positions at several universities in the United States, including the University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
from 1959 to 1963 and Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
from 1963 to 1967. He was the Chairman of the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
English Department from 1967 to 1975. From 1975 to 1984 he was a professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at Yale University and served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department from 1976 to 1983 and the Director of the British Studies Program from 1976 to 1984.
Paulson returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1984, serving as the Department Chairmen fro 1985 to 1991.
He has been a member of the editorial board of the academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
ELH: English Literary History
ELH
ELH: English Literary History is an academic journal established in 1934 and devoted to the study of major works in the English language, particularly British literature. It covers developments in literature through historical, critical, and theoretical methods. The current editor-in-chief is...
and has been the senior editor of the journals Studies in English Literature; PMLA; Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Studies is an academic journal established in 1966 and is the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It focuses on all aspects of 18th century history. It is related to the annual Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture...
; and the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Honors and recognitions
Paulson was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1973 to 1975 and has been the Mayer Professor of Humanities since 1985. He was a member of the Academic and Advisory Committees and Governing Board of the Yale Center for British ArtYale Center for British Art
The Yale Center for British Art is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut at Yale University which houses the most comprehensive collection of British Art outside the United Kingdom...
and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London
London
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from 1975 to 1984. He has also been Guggenheim Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
(1965–66, 1986–87), an NEH Senior Fellow (1977–78), and a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
(1978, 1987).
In 1988, Paulson traveled with several humorists from the United States to the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
as part of a cultural exchange.
Books
- Theme and Structure in Swift's 'Tale of a Tub (1960)
- Hogarth's Graphic Works (1965)
- The Fictions of Satire (1967)
- Satire and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (1967)
- Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times (1971)
- Rowlandson: A New Interpretation (1972)
- Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century (1975)
- The Art of Hogarth (1975)
- Popular and Polite Art in the Age of Hogarth and Fielding (1979)
- Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable (1982)
- Representations of Revolution (1789–1820) (1983)
- Book and Painting: Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible (1983)
- Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820 (1989)
- Hogarth's Graphic Works (rewritten and reset) (1989)
- Figure & Abstraction in Contemporary Painting (1990)
- Hogarth, Vols. 1-3 (1991–93)
- The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (1997)
- The Analysis of Beauty (editor) (1997)
- Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (1998)
- The Life of Henry Fielding (2000)