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Christopher Fox
Professor of English and Director of the Keough Institute
Keough Institute for Irish Studies
1146 Flanner Hall
Phone: (219) 631-3555
Fax: (219) 631-3620
Email: Fox.1@nd.edu |
Christopher Fox received his PhD from SUNY-Binghamton where he won
"The Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts Prize"
for1978. From 1978-1986, he taught at Wilkes College in Pennsylvania
where he received the Carpenter Award for Outstanding Teacher of the
Year (1984). Since coming to Notre Dame in 1986, he has taught in
the Department of English. He has also been a Fellow of the Reilly
Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and of the Keough
Institute for Irish Studies, which Professor Fox co-founded with Seamus
Deane. Professor Fox's teaching and research have ranged from such
topics as the relations between literature and philosophy and literature
and science, to the emergence of the social sciences in the long eighteenth
century, and more recently, to literature, politics, and science in
eighteenth-century Ireland. He is also currently interested in exploring
the impact of the so-called "New British History" on our understanding
of the dynamic of literary and cultural relations between eighteenth-century
Ireland, Scotland, and England. In the late 1980s, Christopher Fox
founded the interdisciplinary Notre Dame Eighteenth-Century Seminar
which is still running. He has also organized a series of scholarly
meetings at Notre Dame, including the Midwestern American Society
For Eighteenth-Century Studies (1988), the Notre Dame Sesquicentennial
Irish Meetings (1991) and, with his colleague Julia Douthwaite, the
national meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(1998), the largest in the Society's history, in conjunction with
an international meeting co-sponsored by the Irish government on the
Great Irish Rebellion of 1798. Professor Fox has served on many collegiate
and university committees, including the Board of the Friends of the
Library and of the Notre Dame Press. He has been elected to national
Executive Board of the American Society For Eighteenth-Century Studies
and served on various editorial boards, including Eighteenth-Century
Studies. He has been President of the Midwestern American Society
For Eighteenth-Century Studies, and currently serves as President
of the Samuel Johnson Society. Fox also heads the Irish Caucus of
the American Society For Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Christopher Fox served as Chairperson of Notre Dame's English Department
from 1992 to 1997, where he worked to build the Medieval, Irish
literature and Creative Writing programs and tripled the number
of graduate applications. In 1997, Christopher Fox became Director
of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and Associate
Dean for Faculty and Research of the College of Arts and Letters
at Notre Dame. In his work for the Institute he led the College
of Arts and Letters to the then largest number of grants in the
University's history. He also spearheaded such efforts as The Irish
Seminar, The PhD in Literature Program, The Shakespear
Initiative and The Medieval Literature Initiative (the last, a plan
to build Notre Dame's library collection into international status).
In 2000, Professor Fox served as Acting Dean of the College of Arts
and Letters and, in 2001, became Director of the Keough Institute
for Irish Studies. In 2001, he also received an award from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to direct a NEH Seminar for College
and University Teachers on the theme, "Anglo-Irish Identities 1600-1800."
Christopher Fox has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.
He has been a Fellow of the Newberry Library and the Folger Institute
and has received individual research awards from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
His institutional Challenge Grant, "Building Medieval and Irish Studies
at the University of Notre Dame," is the largest NEH in Notre Dame's
history. He is the author of Locke and the Scriblerians:
Identity and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(Berkeley and London, 1988) and the editor or co-editor of several
books, including Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century
(New York, 1987), Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry (New
York,1990), with Brenda Tooley, Walking Naboth's Vineyard:
New Studies of Swift (Notre Dame and London, 1995), and Gulliver's
Travels: Authoritative Text and Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism (Boston, New York and London, 1995). With Roy Porter
and Robert Wokler, Christopher Fox has published Inventing Human
Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains (Berkeley and London,
1995). He is currently completing The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan
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