Ronald Paulson

Ronald Paulson
Born (1930-05-27) May 27, 1930
Bottineau, North Dakota, US
Occupation Writer, professor

Ronald Paulson (born May 27, 1930 in Bottineau, North Dakota), is an American professor of English, a specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and English artist William Hogarth.[1]

Education

Paulson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1952, where he was an editorial associate of campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[2] He earned his doctorate degree from Yale in 1958.

Academic career

Paulson has taught and held various administrative positions at several universities in the United States, including the University of Illinois 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.[3]

Paulson returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1984, serving as the Department Chairman from 1985 to 1991.[3]

He has been a member of the editorial board of the academic journal ELH: English Literary History and was senior editor from 1985 to 2004; he served on the editorial boards of the journals Studies in English Literature; PMLA; Eighteenth-Century Studies; and the Johns Hopkins University Press.[3]

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 Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London from 1975 to 1984. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow (1965–66, 1986–87), an NEH Senior Fellow (1977–78), and a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation (1978, 1987).[3]

In 1988, Paulson traveled with several humorists from the United States to the Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange.[4]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 "Hogarth; His Life, Art and Times. By Ronald Paulson. Illustrated. Vol. I, 558 pp. Vol. II, 557 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. Hogarth". New York Times. January 2, 1972. Retrieved January 18, 2011. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  2. ↑ The Yale Record. New Haven: Yale Record. February, 1951. p. 3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Ronald Paulson – English Department – Johns Hopkins University". english.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  4. ↑ New York Times Service (February 16, 1988), "Laugh Exchange: Humorists take humor to Soviet Union", Milwaukee Journal, p. G1, retrieved January 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Broyard, Anatole (June 2, 1983). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  6. ↑ Dorment, Richard (May 27, 1993). "The Genius of Gin Lane". The New York Review of Books (The New York Times). Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  7. ↑ Furbank, P.N. (December 18, 1997). "The Pleasures of Reading Hogarth". The New York Review of Books (The New York Times). Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  8. ↑ Gorfkle, Laura J. (1999). "Review of Ronald Paulson's Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter". Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America (he Cervantes Society of America) 19 (1): 145–149. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
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