UK and New Zealand citizen

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University 2002-

Professor of English Literature, Princeton University 1995-2002

Associate Professor of English, University of Auckland, 1991-94

Degrees and Qualifications:

BA first class, University of York, 1966

DPhil, University of York, 1971

Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

President, Australasian and Pacific Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1993-4

The London Library

The Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne

Fellowships and Research Grants

R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library 2005-6

Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 2003

Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Canberra, 2003

Charles J. Cole Visiting Fellow, Lewis Walpole Library, June 2002

Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre (Canberra), 1998

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research . Canberra, 1998

Princeton Committee on Research in the Humanities summer grants, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001

Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1992

Benjamin N. Duke Research Fellow, National Humanities Center, NC, 1991-92

Research Fellow, Yale Center for British Art, January-February, 1989

Research Fellow, William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA, September-December, 1988

Visiting Fellow, University of Sussex, 1988

John Ben Snow Prize, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies for Preserving the Self in the South Seas, November 2002

Best Special Issue prize awarded to The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 1995

Scurvy: the Disease of Discovery commissioned by the Hambledon and London Press for completion in 2006

Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 345

Exploration and Exchange: British and American Narratives of the Pacific 1680-1900, ed. Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith and Nicholas Thomas, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 359.

Voyages and Beaches: Europe and the Pacific 1769-1840, ed. Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr, University of Hawaii Press, 1999, pp. 344

The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 329

Sterne’s Fiction and the Double Principle, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 161

The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century: Narratives and Myths, ed. Jonathan Lamb, Robert Maccubbin and David F. Morrill (Eighteenth-Century Life special issue 18:3, Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1994), pp. 242

Extreme and Sentimental History,  a special issue of Criticism, ed. Vanessa Agnew and Jonathan Lamb, 46:3 (2004), 323-523

`Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales,’ in Things, ed. Bill Brown (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004) 193-226

`Fantasies of Paradise,’ in The Enlightenment World, ed. Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf, and Iain McCalman (London: Routledge 2004), 521-535

`Sterne’s System of Imitation,’ reprinted in Laurence Sterne, ed. Marcus Walsh, (London: Longman: 2002), 138-60

`George Shelvocke,’ entry in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) oxforddnb.com/view/article/25320

`The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a ballad of the scurvy,’ in Richard Wrigley and George Revill eds, Pathologies of Travel (Amsterdam: Rhodopi, 2000), 157-77

`Self-preservation in the South Seas,’ in Jacqueline Lo, Duncan Beard and Rachel Cunneen eds., Impossible Selves: Cultural Readings of Identity (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1999) 2-14

Introduction, Voyages and Beaches ed. Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999) 1-17

`The Comic Sublime and Sterne’s Fiction,’ reprinted in Richard Kroll ed., The Eighteenth-century Novel: A Critical Reader (London: Longman, 1998)

`Sterne’s System of Imitation,’ reprinted in Melvyn New ed. Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne in the Critical Essays on British Literature Series (G.K. Hall and Co., New York, 1998) 19-38

`Exemplarity and Excess in Fielding’s Fiction,’ reprinted in A. Rivero ed. Critical Essays on Henry Fielding, in the Critical Essays on British Literature Series (G.K. Hall and Co., New York, 1998), 94-111

`The Idea of Utopia in the European Settlement of New Zealand,’ in Nicholas Thomas and Klaus Newmann eds., Quicksands: Foundational Histories in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, (University of New South Wales Press. 1999), 79-97

`Re-imagining Juan Fernandez: Probability and Pretence in the South Seas,’ in Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losch eds., Double Vision (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 19-43

`Sterne and Irregular Oratory,’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. John Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 153-74

`The Sublime,’ with a bibliographical appendix, in The Cambridge History of Criticism IV, ed. Barry Nisbet and Claude Rawson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 394-416; 847-51.

`Blocked Observation: Tautology and Paradox in The Vanity of Human Wishes,’ in Cutting Edges, ed. James Gill, a special edition of Tennessee Studies in Literature (University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1995), 335-46

`”These foolish things remind me of you”: First Person Particulars in the Representation of South Pacific Discovery,’ in Remembering Representation, ed. Howard McNaughton (Christchurch: Department of English, 1993), 22-37

`A Sublime Moment off Poverty Bay, October 9, 1769,’ in Dirty Silence: Aspects of New Zealand Literature, ed. Graham MacGregor and Mark Williams (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991), 97-115

`Risks of Myth: The Politics of New Zealand Literary Journals,’ in Contemporary Essays on Literary Periodicals, ed. David Carter (Sydney: Local Consumption Press, 1991), 193-202

`The Double Principle in Eighteenth-Century Literature,’ Comic Relations, ed Pavel Petr (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1985), 13-27

`Inchoate Possession: How Captain Kerguelen claimed an island,’  Journal of Maritime Research (online at www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/lamb),  January 2005, 1-9

`Captain Cook and the Scourge of Scurvy,’ BBC Exploration website, August-September 2002

`Coming to terms with what isn’t there: early narratives of New Holland,’ Eighteenth-Century Life 26:1 (Winter 2002), 147-55

`Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century,’ SEL 41, 3 (Summer 2001), 623-75

`Despair and Delight: Mixed Feelings in the South Seas,’ review article of Rod Edmond, Representing the South Pacific (Cambridge 1997), the online  Journal of Maritime Research 1999

`The Medium of Publicity and the Garden at Stowe,’ Huntington Library Quarterly 59:1 (1997), 53-72

`Eyewitnessing in the South Seas,’ The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (a special issue devoted to the Pacific in the eighteenth century, edited by Bridget Orr) 38:3 (1997) 201-212

`Global ethnographies, local histories: How ‘natives’ think’,’ Canberra Anthropology 19:1 (April 1996) 118-32

Introduction, The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century (1994), ed. Lamb, Maccubbin, Morrill, 1-7

`Circumstances surrounding the death of John Hawkesworth,’ The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century (1994), ed. Lamb, Maccubbin, Morrill, 97-113

`Minute Particulars and the Representation of South Pacific Discovery,’ Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28:3 (1995), 281-294

`Coconuts: First Persons Singular and Unrelative Events,’ Interstices 3 (University of Auckland, 1995), 9-16

`Longinus, the Dialectic and the Practice of the Sublime,’ ELH 60 (1993), 545-567

`The Subject of the Subject: the Sublime and Self-reference,’ Huntington Library Quarterly 56:2 (Spring, 1993), 191-207

`Social Facts, Political Fictions and Un-relative Events: Gananath Obeyesekere’s Critique of Marshall Sahlins,’ Social Analysis 34 (University of Adelaide, 1994), 56-60

`The Quadrature of Stone,’ Interstices 1:2 (Auckland, 1992), 45-61

`The Job Controversy, Sterne and the Question of Allegory,’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 24:1 (Fall, 1990), 1-19

`On Two Sublimes,’ Interstices 1:1 (Auckland, 1990), 1-16

`The New Zealand Sublime,’ Meanjin 49:4 (1990), 663-675

`Job, Epitaphs, and Blake’s Illustrations,’ The Clark Library Newsletter 16 (1989), 4-7

`Exemplarity and Excess in Fielding’s Fiction,’ Eighteenth-Century Fiction 1:3 (1989), 187-207

`The Fragmentation of Originals and Clarissa,’ Studies in English Literature 28 (1988), 443-59

`Risks of Myth: The Politics of New Zealand Literary Journals,’ Meanjin 3/1987, 377-84

`Problems of Originality:, or, Beware of Pakeha Baring Guilts,’ Landfall 159:40 (1986), 352-58

`The Uncanny in Auckland,’ AND 4 (University of Auckland, 1985), 32-45

`Hartley and Wordsworth: Philosophical Language and Figures of the Sublime,’ Modern Language Notes 97 (1982), 1064-85

`The Comic Sublime and Sterne’s Fiction,’ ELH 48 (1981), 110-43

`Sterne’s System of Imitation,’ Modern Language Review 76 (1981), 794-810

`Sterne’s Use of Montaigne,’ Comparative Literature 32 (1980), 1-41

`“Uniting and Reconciling Every Thing”: Book-Wit in Tristram Shandy,’ Southern Review 7: 3 (Adelaide, 1974), 236-45

`A New Critical Approach to Tristram Shandy,’ D.Phil dissertation, University of York (UK), 1971

`Contingent Shores’ a review of Tim Fulford et al., Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era, (Cambridge University Press 2004) in Postcolonial Studies 8:4 (2005), 487-89

James Noggle, The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists (Oxford 2001) in Modern Philology 102:1 (2004), 126-29

Michael Sturma, SouthSea Maidens (World History 95, 2002) in American Historical Review (2004) 1215-6

Julia V. Douthwaite, The Wild Girl, Natural Man and the Monster (Chicago 2002), Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17:1 (2004), 130-32

Kathleen Wilson, The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge 2003), in Albion (Summer 2004) 145-7

Pacific Lives, Pacific Places,’ ed. Brij V. Lal and Peter Hempenstall (Canberra 2001) in the Journal of Pacific History 38:1 (2003), 138-9

`A Look around the Estate,’ review of Wolfram Schmidgen, Eighteenth-century Fiction and the Law of Property (Cambridge 2002) and Thomas Keymer, Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (Oxford 2002) in The Times Literary Supplement, 21 March 2003, 22-23

`Dreamland,’ review of Glyn Williams, Voyages of Delusion (HarperCollins 2001), and Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Voyage to Desolation Island (Harvill 2001) in The London Review of Books, 20 March 2003,  27-29

‘Bard of Tropes,’ review of Nick Groom ed., Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture (Palgrave 1999) in London Review of Books 20 September 2001, 32-33

John Barrell, Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-96 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101: 1, (2001) 145-48

Roger D. Lund ed., The Margins of Orthodoxy: Heterodox Writing and Cultural Response 1660-1750 (1995) and Ronald Paulson, The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Orthodoxy (1996) in Modern Philology 96:2 (November 1998), 241-248

Vanessa Smith, Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-century textual encounters in Journal of Pacific History  (1998) 33:3, 313-14

Greg Dening, Performances, in Australian Historical Studies 34:3 (1997), 221-4

Germaine Warkentin ed. Critical Issues in Editing Exploration Texts in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 25:1 (January 1997) 147-49

Ian Bell, Literature and Crime in Augustan England, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction4:2 (1992), 167-68

Martin Battestin, Henry Fielding: a Life, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 3:1 (1990), 83-85

Ralph Flores, The Rhetoric of Doubtful Authority, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (New York, AMS Press, 1989), 715-16

John Docker, In a Critical Condition, in Landfall 156 (1985), 506-14

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction, in AND 3 (1984), 114

Mark Loveridge, Tristram Shandy and the Argument about Design, in Comparative Literature 35:3 (1983), 297-99

Michael Seidel, Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne, in Comparative Literature 34:4 (1982), 374-76

Papers and Conferences:

`Distributive Justice and the Lives of Things,’ `Vital Matters Conference,’ Clark Library, UCLA, May 20, 2006

`The Things Things Say to Us,’ public lecture, Friends’ Hall, Huntington Library, 31 January 2006

`Reports of maritime discovery and the question of the real’, British Maritime History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 20 December 2005

`Sterne, Sebald and Siege Architecture,’ `Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities’ a conference convened by Carolyn Strange, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, 8 December 2005

`Settlers as Dogs,’ in `Settlers, Creoles and the Re-enactment of History,’ the third Re-enactment History Conference, organized by Jonathan Lamb, Robert Penn Warren Center, Vanderbilt University, 12 November 2005

`Still Life and The Rape of the Lock,’ UCLA Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, 4 November 2005

`The Independence of Things and the Rise of the Novel,’ graduate seminar, Department of English, University of Chicago, 12 October 2005

`Still Life and The Rape of the Lock,’ Nicholson Center Lecture, Department of English, University of Chicago, 11 October 2005

`Biculturalism and Settler History’ in `Biculturalism or Multiculturalism,’ a conference convened by Mark Williams, School of Culture, University of Canterbury (NZ). 2 September 2005

`Extreme and Sentimental History,’ given during a two-day graduate workshop on Re-enactment History, ANU Centre, Melbourne, 15 August 2005

`Extreme and Sentimental History,’ in a one day graduate workshop on Re-enactment History, Humanities Research Center, ANU, 5 August, 2005

`Sterne, Sebald and Siege Architecture,’ in `Extreme and Sentimental History,’ the second Re-enactment History Conference, organized by Jonathan Lamb and Iain McCalman, Huntington Library, 14 May, 2005

`The Rape of the Lock and Still Life’ in `Custom, Ritual, Habit, Fetish: The Idols of the Eighteenth Century,’ a Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies workshop chaired by Fritz Breithaupt, University of Indiana, 12 May 2005

`Extreme and Sentimental History,’ opening statement of a two-day graduate workshop on Re-enactment History entitled, `Re-enactment and Extreme History,’ convened by Jonathan Lamb and Iain McCalman, Caltech, 9 May 2005

`What’s Yours to Know, and What’s Yours to Imagine’ `The Guises of Reason: Taste and the Aesthetic 1660-1830’, a conference hosted by John Brewer, Caltech, 6 May 2005

`Owning up to the loss of property: the salience of missing things in South Seas narrative’ in `Maritime in Modernity’ a conference arranged by Margaret Cohen, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, 30 April, 2005

`The Things Things Say,’ English Department, University of Glasgow, 18 April, 2005

`Distributive Justice and the Rise of Realist Fiction’ English Department, Johns Hopkins University, February 11, 2005

`The Place of Property in South Seas Narrative,’ `Exploring Text and Travel,’ National Maritime Museum, 12 March 2005

`Distributive Justice and the Rise of Realist Narrative,’ English Department, Johns Hopkins University, 10 February, 2005

`What is yours to know and what isn’t: empiricism and narrative in the early 18^th century’, MLA, Philadelphia, 28 December, 2004

`Settlers and Creoles.’ MLA, Philadelphia, 28 December, 2004

`Extreme and Sentimental History,’ Max Planck Institute, Berlin, 8 December 2004

Discussion of my book Preserving the Self in the South Seas, chaired by Margaret Cohen, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, November 4, 2004

`The Things Things Say to Us,’ Inaugural lecture for the Mellon Chair in Humanities, Vanderbilt University, October 1, 2004

`The Superiority of the Undone: built ruins in eighteenth-century gardens,’ a conference on Ruins at University of Paris VII, 17 September 2004

`The Crying of Lost Things:   Advertisements for Lost Property and The Beggar’s Opera,’ Centre for Cultural Inquiry and the Department of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2 August, 2004

`The Crying of Lost Things,’ research presentation to the Cultural Transformations Research Group and the Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand, Friday 30 July, 2004

`The Cold South Seas,’ open lecture to the Division of Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 29 July, 2004

`Extreme and Sentimental History,’ David Nichol Smith Seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian Nation University, 19 July 2004

Convened and introduced a conference entitled `Extreme and Sentimental History’, Vanderbilt University, 2-3 April, 2004

`Chattels and machines,’ ASECS, Boston, 25 March 2004

Convened and introduced a conference entitled `Nothing’ at the Humanities Centre, Vanderbilt University, 13 February 2004

`Creolism and Metamorphosis,’ English Dept, Yale University, 7 February 2004

`The Crying of Lost Things,’ English Dept., University of Notre Dame, February 5, 2004

`Creolism and hybridity,’ MLA, San Diego, 28 December 2003

`Metamorphosis and Settlement,’ plenary paper at the Canadian Society of Eighteenth-century Studies, Vancouver, 29 September, 2003

`Lemuel Gulliver and the Lives of Animals’, Eighteenth-century Colloquium, Northwestern University, 6 November, 2003

`Lemuel Gulliver and the Lives of Animals,’ Lunchbox Lecture hosted by David Wood, Nashville Public Library, September 3, 2003

`Metamorphosis and Settlement,’ roundtable `Anthropology and the Enlightenment’ convened by Larry Wolff, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, UCLA, August 5, 2003

 Chair of two sessions of `Aesthetic Positions,’ held at King’s College, University of Cambridge, 21 June 2003

`Voices of Metamorphosis,’ `The Prehistory of the Posthuman,’ Princeton University, 8 June 2003

`Metamorphosis and Settlement: How Change is managed in the New World,’ Stanford Humanities Center, May 12, 2003

`Inchoate Title: the Taking Possession of Desolation Island,’ `From South Sea to Pacific Ocean: Conceptualizing the Pacific, 1500-1945,’ co-sponsored by the National Maritime Museum and the Huntington Library, Huntington Library, March 27, 2003

`Seven Types of Litotes,’ Romantics Seminar, King’s College, Cambridge University, February 27, 2003

`Lemuel Gulliver, Elizabeth Costello and the Voices of the Nonhuman,’ WSECS Conference, Huntington Library, February 15, 2003

`Metamorphosis and Settlement,’ Workshop, English Department, University of Chicago, February 12, 2003

`Sympathy and Gulliver’s Travels,’ Graduate Seminar, English Department, University of Cambridge, February 5. 2003

`Inchoate Possession: The Story of Kerguelen Island,’ National Maritime Museum Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, February 4, 2003

`Seven Types of Litotes,’ paper delivered to the English Department, Duke University, October 29, 2002

`I sailed with Cook,’ talk given to the Adult Education Program, Princeton, October 8, 2002

Convenor of the fourth and last joint conference between Princeton University and the National Maritime Museum, `The History of the Maritime Book,’ Princeton, October 4-5, 2002

`Desolation Island and Cook’s Third Voyage,’ `History of the Maritime Book’, Princeton, October 4, 2002

`Do Animals have a Voice?’ Princeton Eighteenth-Century Studies Group seminar on animals in the eighteenth century, `Pet Theories,’ May 11, 2002

`Settlement and Metamorphosis,’ in `Unsettling Settlement’, a seminar held at the University of Auckland, March 22, 2002

`Sympathy and the Lives of Animals,’ seminar, University of Michigan, March 7, 2002

Roundtable discussion, `De-centering Europe in Postcolonial Studies,’ GEMCS conference, Philadelphia, November 18 2001

`Seven Types of Litotes: The Eloquence of Distant Places,’ 11<sup>th</sup> David Nichol Smith Conference, `The Exotic during the long 18^th Century,’ Australian National University, Canberra, 27 March 2001

Discussant, `The Dream in Western Europe 1500-1800,’ Princeton University, 24 February 2001

Convenor of `Exchanging and Changing: Conversions of Faiths, Identities, Things and Spaces,’ a joint Princeton/ National Maritime Musuem seminar, Princeton University, October 6-7, 2000

`The Eloquence of Distant Places,’ Travel and Nation conference, British Academy, 14 July 2000

`The Subtlety of Islands,’ The Global Eighteenth Century Conference, (Islands section), Clark Library, UCLA, 8 April 2000

`The Things Things Say,’ seminar, Department of Anthropology, University College, London, January 2000

`Scorbutic Vision in the South Seas,’ Department of English Graduate Colloquium, St Johns University, Queens, New York, 25 October 1999

`The Literary Imagination of Maritime History,’ Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 12 October, 1999

`Curiosities and Fetishes: the Conversion of Objects on the Beach,’ Princeton/National Maritime Museum interdisciplinary seminar, National Maritime Museum, 15 October, 1999

`Scurvy and Coleridge,’ one-day conference organised by the Comparative Literature Dept, Princeton University, 19 May 1999

`Coleridge and Scurvy,’ Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, Rhode Island, October 23 1998

`Preserving the self in the South Seas,’ paper given to the English Department of the Australian Defence Force Academy, 4 June, 1998

`Preserving the self in the South Seas,’ seminar in the Humanities Research Centre, 28 May 1998

`The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a ballad of the scurvy,’ at Re-orienting Romanticism, Australian National University, 15 April 1998

`Preserving the self in the South Seas,’ graduate seminar at Monash University, 6 April, 1998

`Self-preservation and the cross-cutlural transition,’ Crossing Cultures, keynote address, Department of English, Australian National University, 25 March, 1998

`What happens to time in two South Pacific utopias,’ American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies annual meeting, Nashville, 21 March 1997

`Anthropology and Utopia in the South Seas,’ Anthropology Department, University of Chicago, 19 May, 1997

General discussant at `Travel within and beyond Europe,’ a seminar sponsored by the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at the University of Sydney, 29 August, 1997

`Butler’s Erewhon and the Foundation of New Zealand,’ Foundational Histories Seminar, Coogee, New South Wales, 29-31 August, 1997

`Butler’s Utopia’, given to the American Studies Graduate Seminar, Princeton University, 5 November, 1997

`Shaftesbury, Mandeville and the Terra Incognita,’ CUNY Graduate Seminar, 7 November, 1997

`Darwin, Wakefield and Butler: Building Utopia in New Zealand,’ Weiner Lecture, delivered at Brandeis University 18 November, 1997

`Privateering in the South Seas: The Voyages of John Clipperton and George Shelvocke,’ Hakluyt Society colloquium Voyages and Travels on November 23, 1996

With Michael Wood I convened at Princeton a conference called, Narrative Encounters and read a paper: `Eyewitnessing in the South Seas,’ October 19-20, 1996

`The Medium of Publicity and the Garden at Stowe,’ at An Age of Reason? Re-Thinking the Eighteenth Century, a colloquium hosted by the English Department, University of Melbourne, 27 July, 1996

`The Eye-Witness at the Edge: The Public Value of First Person Testimony in the South Seas Voyages of the Eighteenth Century,’ plenary paper delivered to the tenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, entitled Margins and Metropolis: Literature, Culture, and Science 1660-1830, held at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 2-5 July, 1996

`Reimagining Juan Fernandez: Empire and Pretence in the South Seas’ given to Reimagining the Pacific, a conference hosted by the National Library of Australia, 1-4 August 1996

`The Medium of Publicity and the Garden at Stowe,’ Eighteenth-Century Seminar, Columbia University, February, 1996

`The Medium of Publicity and the Garden at Stowe,’ Architecture Seminar, Princeton University, May, 1996

`Civil Society and Savage Resentments,’ Early Modern Culture 1450-1850, (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies) Dallas, October 5, 1995

 `The Jacobite Piracy of George Shelvocke,’ Jacobitism, Scotland and the Enlightenment, University of Aberdeen, July 31, 1995

`The Deathsong: the Place of the Savage Complaint in Eighteenth-Century Theories of Civil Society,’ The Body in the Library, University of Queensland, August 26, 1994

`Problems with the Narrative of Cook’s Landfall,’ Reading New Zealand, a conference held in the Australian Studies Centre, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, June 21, 1994

`Coconuts: First Persons Singular and Unrelative Events in the Narratives of South Pacific Discovery,’ Postcolonial Seminar, University of Kent, May, 1994

Convened Voyages and Beaches: Discovery, Empire and the Pacific, David Nichol Smith Seminar IX, University of Auckland, August 24-28, 1993

`John Hawkesworth’s Use of Minute Circumstances,’ Voyages and Beaches, Auckland, August 27, 1993

`Funding for Research in the Humanities at New Zealand Universities,’ panel paper delivered at the inaugural meeting of the New Zealand Academy for the Humanities, National Library, Wellington, June 26, 1993

`First Person Particulars: the Rhetoric of Travel Narratives in the South Pacific,’ faculty seminar, English Department, University of Auckland, June 10, 1993

`John Hawkesworth and the Problem of Particularity,’ faculty seminar, History Department, University of Auckland, April 29, 1993

Contributor to a film entitled Scuttlebut, directed by Kim Mackenzie, dealing with issues arising out of `The Ship’ and re-enactment history in general, filmed in Cairns and Cooktown, 4—6 December 2003

Contributor on scurvy to Nigel Rigby’s three-part BBC Radio 4 programme `The Three Voyages of James Cook,’  September 2002

Publicity for `The Ship’—interviews on Look North TV and Radio Five Live, August 2002

Historical consultant to, and participant in `The Ship,’ a six-part BBC 2 documentary about James Cook’s first voyage, filmed on the Endeavour bark while sailing between the Endeavour River in Queensland, Australia, and Bali, Indonesia, August 25-October 6, 2001. Shown on BBC 2 August-September, 2002, and the History Channel, October 2002. In Australia (ABC) April 2003, and New Zealand 2004

`Who killed the Albatross,’ BBC Radio 4 Documents programme about the maritime background to Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner, broadcast November 2000.

Jonathan Lamb, Alan Smythe, Jan Kemp eds. New Zealand Poets Read their Work (1976), three disc archival anthology of New Zealand poetry, currently being reissed (2002).

Chair of the ASECS search committee for a new editor of Eighteenth-century Studies (2004)

Member of the advisory board, The Journal for Maritime Research (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Member of the editorial board of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation

Member of the editorial board of Eighteenth-century Fiction

Member of the editorial board of Interstices (University of Auckland)

Reader for Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-century Contexts as well as the above

Reader for Cambridge University Press, Chicago University Press, University of Delaware Press, Pickering and Chatto

2004   Chair, world literature search

2004- Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities advisory committee

2004- Promotions and Tenure Review Committee, Vanderbilt University

2002, -3, -4, Vanderbilt University search committees

2000-2   Organiser of the Program for British and Postcolonial Studies, Princeton University

1999-       Organiser of the joint conferences on maritime history, Princeton and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

2001-2   Rhodes and Marshall scholarship applications

1999            Eighteenth-century job search committee

1998            Rhodes scholarship applications

1996        Junior job search committee

                Chair tenure review committee

1995        Chair junior job search committee

                Chair graduate examinations committee

                Graduate applications committee

                Affirmative action officer, English Department

                Adviser to candidates for Rhodes and Keasbey scholarships

1994        Chair Graduate/Conference/Research Committee, Department of English, University of        Auckland

1993        Arts Faculty representative on Senate, 1990-93

Professor Joan Dayan, Department of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235

Professor Claudia Johnson, Department of English, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544

Professor James Chandler, Department of English, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637

Professor Claude Rawson, Department of English, Yale University, New Haven CT 06520