Kevin Joel Berland
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Penn State Shenango
147 Shenango Avenue
Sharon, PA 16146-1597
Telephone: 724 983-2940
Fax: 724 983-2820
Email:
Education:
B.A. (First Class Honours), 1975, Carleton University
M.A., 1977, Carleton University
Ph.D., 1984, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Dissertation: Indirect Ethical Communication: Fielding, Dialogue, and Dialectic.
Academic Awards & Distinctions:
Canada Council-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1978-80; 1980-81 (new competition and award).
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1977-78..
McMaster University Graduate Scholarship, 1977-81.
Carleton University School of Graduate Studies Scholarship, 1975-77.
Publications:
Ø See Scholarly books and articles.
Ø See Creative writing
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Research Awards & Grants:
Rockefeller Library Fellowship, Colonial Williamsburg, 2004.
Virginia Historical Society, Mellon Fellowship, 2004.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2003.
Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, Research Fellowship (New York Historical Society), 2003.
American Philosophical Society Library Research Fellowship, 2003.
Library Company of Philadelphia - Pennsylvania Historical Society Mellon Fellowship, 2002.
McMaster University Library - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship, 2001.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Research Fellowship, 1996.
Canadian Studies Program, Canadian Embassy to the United States, Faculty Research Grant, 1991.
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel to International Conference Grant, 1987, 1990.
Folger Institute for Renaissance and 18th-Century Studies, Folger Seminar Fellowship, 1986.
Newberry Library, Short-Term Fellowship, 1985.
Areas of research interest:
18th-century English literature.
18th-century Irish literature.
Colonial American literature and culture.
Historiography.
The classics in early modern culture.
The image of Socrates in English letters to 1800.
Physiognomy.
The early modern history of ancient philosophy.
Professional Honors:
Teacher of the Year, Penn State Shenango, 1996.
Mentor of the Year, Penn State, 1995.
Membership in Professional Organizations:
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
International Society for Intellectual History
International Society for the Classical Tradition
Society of Early Americanists
Support of Scholarship:
Elected Vice President (2005-2006), President (2006-2007), East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Elected Member at Large, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2001-2004.
Editorial Board, Eighteenth-Century Life
Have served as editorial reader for British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Novel, The European Legacy, Philological Quarterly, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, William and Mary Quarterly.
Founder and editor of C18-L, since 1990 the primary international online forum for 18th-century studies across the disciplines:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/c18-l.htmEditor of Selected Readings, an online running bibliography of current scholarship in 18th-century studies:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htmMember of the editorial board of c18, the online project of the Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire:
www.c18.org
Papers presented:
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This page was last updated June 9, 2007.