Scott Black

Assistant Professor
Department of English
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Ave.
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
scott.black@villanova.edu
610.519.4642

education

Ph.D.  The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1999
M.A.  The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1996
B.A.   McGill University, Montreal, 1988, with first-class honors

teaching

1999-             assistant professor, Villanova University, Villanova PA
1998-1999     adjunct professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC
1993-1998     instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
1991-1992     English tutor, Seoul, Korea
1989-1991     English teacher (junior high school), Taro-cho, Iwate-ken, Japan

publications

Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (forthcoming, Palgrave)
"Trading Sex for Secrets in Haywood’s Love in Excess," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15 (2003)
"Addison’s Aesthetics of Novelty," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001)
"Social and Literary Form in the Spectator," Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (1999)

fellowships and awards

Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2002-2003
Clark Library / Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies Fellowship, UCLA, 2003
Pforzheimer Fellowship, Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Summer Research Fellowship, Villanova University, 2002
Beneficial-Hodson Trust Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1995-1999
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1997
Johns Hopkins Summer Seminar in the Humanities, 1995
Johns Hopkins University Fellowships, 1992-1994
Dow-Hickson Scholarship, McGill University, 1987-1988
Algie Smillie Noad Prize, McGill University, 1988

papers delivered

“Recycling Joseph Andrews,” ASECS Conference, Las Vegas, April 2005
“The Legacy of Quixote: Reading and Anachronism in Joseph Andrews,” Don Quijote at 400 Conference, Villanova PA, March 2005
“Reading and Writing ‘by way of essay,’” NACBS Conference, Philadelphia, Oct 2004
“Sonata Form in Evelina,” EC ASECS Conference, Cape May, Oct 2004
“Forms of Homosociality in Wycherley’s and Etherege’s Plays,” SCSECS Conference, Santa Fe, Feb 2004
“Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain,” Delaware Valley British Studies Seminar, Nov 2003
“Essays and Libraries: examples from the Huntington collection,” Huntington Library, San Marino, April 2003
“Of Essays,” Renaissance Workshop, Huntington Library, San Marino, March 2003
“Skepticism and Charity in Joseph Andrews,” ASECS Conference, Colorado Springs, April 2002
“Fluid Dynamics: Essay as Liquid Form,” GEMCS Conference, Philadelphia, Nov 2001
“Trading Sex for Secrets in Haywood’s Love in Excess,” ASECS Conference, New Orleans, April 2001
“The Essay and the Invention of Civil Society,” DeBartolo Conference, Tampa, February 2001
“Essays, Novelty, and Utopia in the Female Spectator,” Aphra Behn Society Conference, Denver, Nov 2000
“Association, the Essay, and Hume’s Essays on Criticism,” EC ASECS Conference, Norfolk, Oct 2000
“The Modernity of Tom Jones,” NE ASECS Conference, Durham NH, Dec 1999
“Reading Eliza Haywood,” Aphra Behn Society Conference, Philadelphia, Nov 1999
“The Form of Play and Friendship in Montaigne’s Essays,” NE MLA Conference, Pittsburgh, April 1999
“Addison’s Aesthetics of Novelty,” ASECS Conference, Milwaukee, March 1999
“The Spectator, the Essay, and the Press,” DeBartolo Conference, Tampa, Feb 1999
“The Commerce of Experience in Hume’s Essays,” NYU 18th-C Group Conference, New York, Feb 1998
“‘A Gentle Exercise of the Faculties’: The Journal, Clubs, Aesthetics," Hopkins, Baltimore, Oct 1997
“The Tatler: From the Urban to the Urbane,” MW ASECS Conference, Chicago, Oct 1997