Curriculum Vitae

Gerald Egan 785 Via del Monte, Palos Verdes, CA 90274 Ph: 310 986 3368 gegan@umail.ucsb.edu Degrees Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara expected August 2010 M.A., English Literature, California State University, Long Beach 2004 B.A., cum laude, English Literature, University of California, Riverside 1975 Research and Teaching Interests Eighteenth Century British poetry, British Romanticism, Visual Culture, New Media Publications “Byron, the Grotesque Body and the God of Light.” Submitted to readers by European Romantic Review, September 2009. “The Authorial Self in Image and Text in Pope’s Poetic Editions.” Forthcoming 2010 in Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Christina Ionescu (Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars). “Radical Moral Authority and Desire: The Image of the Male Romantic Poet in Frontispiece Portraits of Byron and Shelly.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming Spring 2009) "Black-letter and the Broadside Ballad," forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: from the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). "‘Devotion and Morality: Take Heed’s a Fair Thing," forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: from the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). “Paper-Making and Ballad Sheet Sizes,” forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: from the Pepys Collection, with Eric Nebeker, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Presentations “The Frontispiece Portrait as Imagistic Footprint in Pope’s Works of 1717,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Dallas, October 2009. “Byron, Nietzsche, and the god of light.” NASSR Conference, Duke University, May 2009. “The Image of the male romantic poet in frontispiece portraits of Byron and Shelly.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Chicago, February 2007. "The Frontispiece Portrait in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" NASSR Conference, Purdue University, September 2006. “The Frontispiece Steel Engraving of the Male Romantic Poet: Fame and Visual Celebrity in the New Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” MMLA, Milwaukee, November 2005. “Fame and the image of the male romantic poet.” International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, October 2005. “Creating an electronic archive of English broadside ballads.” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York City, March 2005. “The Chaucerian narrator in the early dream poems.” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004. “Inter-connections between the classical and the romantic: translation and intertextuality in Keats and Shelley.” PAMLA Conference, Portland, November 2004. “Borderlines between the classical and the romantic: translation and intertextuality in Keats and Shelley.” International Conference on Romanticism, Laredo, Texas, October 2004. “Unhomely Chaucer,” Princeton Graduate Medieval Colloquium, Princeton, March 2004. 1 Presentations "Turning text into software: technical writing and literary studies in the digital age." NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh, March 2004. “Collaboration in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Prelude: A Bakhtinian View,” Texas Tech University Graduate English Student Conference, February 2004. “The male romantic as written by Victorian women: masculine identities in Wives and Daughters and Villette,” SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, November, 2003. Teaching Experience Instructor (with full course responsibilities), University of California, Santa Barbara: English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies – Singing the Body Electric (Fall 2007) Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing (Spring 2007) Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing (Winter 2007) Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing (Fall 2006) English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies – Visual Culture and the Literary Text (Spring 2006) Instructor (with full course responsibilities), California State University, Fullerton: English 170: Producing Online Documents (Spring 2002) English 187: Writing Software Documentation (Fall 2001) English 170: Producing Online Documents (Spring 1999 - 2001) Academic Service Conceived and convened “Visual Culture Studies Group,” University of California, Santa Barbara (2007 - 2008) Conference committee member, “Science & Technology, 1500-1800,” Early Modern Center Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara (March 2008) Conference committee member, “Transliteracies Conference,” University of California, Santa Barbara (June 2005) TEI specialist, English Broadside Ballad Archive, Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (2005 – 2006) Research Assistant, Transcriptions Project, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara (2005 – 2006) Languages English, French (reading), some Latin Professional Organizations The Bibliographical Society Modern Language Association North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Society for Textual Scholarship 2