Degrees

DPhil, University of York, 1971

Publications

Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840(University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Exploration and Exchange: British and American Narratives of the Pacific 1680-1900 (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Voyages and Beaches: Europe and the Pacific 1769-1840 (University of Hawaii Press, 1999)
The Rhetoric of Suffering (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)

Biography

Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He received his B.A. and his D.Phil. from the University of York. Before coming to Vanderbilt in 2002, he taught at Princeton University and the University of Auckland. His teaching interests include eighteenth century literature and culture; postcolonial theory; travel writing; comic romance; and aesthetics.

His books include Sterne’s Fiction and the Double Principle (1989) and The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century (1995). His most recent book, Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 (2001), was awarded the John Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies. His articles have appeared in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Studies, English Literary History, and Studies in English Literature.