NAME: Sean Shesgreen RANK: Distinguished Research Professor
DEPT: English
ADDRESS: English Department OFFICE: 815.753.1040
Northern Illinois University EMAIL: shesgreen@niu.edu
Dekalb, IL 60115 FAX: 815.753.0606
1411 Davis Street HOME PHONE: 847.475.6187
Evanston,
Illinois 60201 CELL PHONE:
847.630.1411
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (English) 1970 Northwestern
University (Evanston)
M.A.
(English) 1966 Loyola University (Chicago)
B.A.
(Philosophy) 1962 Loyola
University (Chicago)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Distinguished Research Professor 1997-Present
Presidential Research Professor
1991-1996
Professor 1982-Present
Associate Professor 1974-1982
Assistant Professor 1969-1974
Director
of Graduate Studies 1986-1988
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS:
British
Academy (London) July 2000
NEH Senior Fellow, Newberry Library
(1998-99)
Winner of Northern Illinois University's
Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching Award
(1995-96)
Yale University/Lewis Walpole Library
Fellow (1996)
Advisory Editor (Art History), Eighteenth-Century
Studies (1993-5)
Houghton
Library Fellow, Harvard University (Spring 1995)
NEH
Fellow, Brown University (Summer 1992)
Ball
Brothers Foundation Fellow at the Lilly Library (1991)
The
ASECS Fellow, Yale Center for British Art (1990)
NEH
Fellow (Summer 1989)
Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington (1989)
American
Philosophical Society Grant (1976)
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles:
“From
Broadside to Book: Pen and Pencil in the Cries of London.” Word and Image 18:1 (Winter 2002), 57-86.
"`The Manner of Crying Things in
London': History, Chalcography, and Meaning," Huntington Library
Quarterly. 10 (Spring 1999), 404-63.
"The First London Cries for
Children." Princeton University Library Chronicle, 59 (1998),
223-50. With David Bywaters.
"The First London Cries." Print Quarterly, 10 (December 1993),
364-73.
"The Cries of London in the
Seventeenth Century," Publications of the Bibliographical Society of
America, 86 (September 1992), 269-94.
"The New Urbanity of Marcellus
Laroon's Cryes of the City of London." Harvard Library Bulletin,
35 (Fall 1987), 254-79.
"The Editions, Imitations and the
Influence of Marcellus Laroon's Cryes of the City of
London." Studies in
Bibliography, 13 (1982), 258-72.
"Hogarth's Industry and
Idleness: A Reading." Eighteenth-Century
Studies, 9 (Summer 1976), 569-98.
"A Harlot's Progress and the
Question of Hogarth's Didacticisms." Eighteenth-Century Life,
2 (December 1975), 22-28.
Esays
in Books:
“William Hogarths Enraged Musician
and the Cries of London.” In Hogarth: Representing Nature’s Machines.
Edited by David Bindman, Frederic Ogee and Peter Wagner (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2001).
“Marriage in the French and English
Manners: Hogarth and Abraham Bosse.” In The Other Hogarth. Edited by Bernadette Fort. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
"The Moral
Function of Thwackum, Square, and Allworthy." In Tom Jones: The History
of a Foundling. Edited by Sheridan
Baker. New York, Norton, 1995.
Feature
Essays:
"Scholarly Revelations: A Day at
Blenheim Palace with the Seventeenth-Century Engraver Marcellus Laroon," The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 September 1988, B2-B3.
Reviews:
In The Eighteenth-Century: A
Current Bibliography; The Eighteenth-Century: Theory
and Interpretation; Notes and Queries; The
Scriblerian; Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Books:
The Criers and Hawkers of London:
Engravings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon. Stanford UP, 1990. Reviewed: Journal of Gastronomy, 5 (Spring
1990), 100-04; RSA Journal (July 1990), 567-68; Library Review
39 (1990) 64-65; Sunday New York Times Book Review,
September 23, 1990, 51; Eighteenth-Century Studies, 24 (Winter
1990-91), 266-67; Social History, 16 (October 1991), 402; British
Journal of Aesthetics (October 1991), 380-81; Costume, 25 (1991),
113-15; Modern Language Review, 87 (January 1992), 171-72.
Eighteenth-Century Cities: A Panorama. Bloomington, IN: The Lilly Library,
1983. An exhibition catalogue featuring
books and prints from the Lilly Library on eighteenth-century cities. With
Michael L. Berkvam. Reviewed: Johnsonian
News Letter, 53 (1983), 10.
Hogarth and the Times-of-the-Day
Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
1983.Reviewed: Choice (September 11, 1983), 100; The Eighteenth-Century,
26 (1985), 94-101; University of Toronto Quarterly
54 (1985), 293-97; British Journal of Aesthetics,
24 (Autumn 1984), 378-79; The Scriblerian, 17 (Autumn 1984),
66-67; Studies in English Literature 24 (1984),
596; Philological Quarterly, 65 (Summer 1986), 410-12. Etudes Anglaises 38 (1985),
81.
Engravings by Hogarth: 101 Prints.
New York, London, and Toronto: Dover Publications, 1973. Reviewed: The Scriblerian, 4
(Spring 1974), 100; The New Republic, 170 (26 January
1974), 33; Choice, 11 (September 1974), 930; Philological Quarterly,
54 (Fall 1975), 959.
Literary Portraits in the Novels of Henry
Fielding. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1972. An MLA Scholars Library Selection. Reviewed: Southern Humanities Review,
9 (Spring 1975), 215-17; Modern Philology, 72 (February 1975),
321-24; The Year's Work in English Studies
1973, 54 (1975), 297; H. G. Hahn, Henry Fielding: An Annotated
Bibliography (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979), 65-66.
INVITED LECTURES
Newberry Library Teachers as Scholars Program
(2001)
Newberry Colloquium for Fellows, Staff, and Readers (1999)
Newberry Library President's Circle Lecture (1998)
Newberry Library NEH Fellow's Seminar (1998)
Clark Library Lecture, UCLA (1997)
Northwestern University Block Gallery Lecture
(1997)
Folger Library Institute Colloquium (1995)
Davis Seminar Lecture, Princeton University
(1995)
NEH Summer Seminar Lecture, Brown University
(Summer 1992)
Friends of the Lilly Library Lecture,
Bloomington (1990)
Johnson Society (Midwest), Notre Dame
University (1988)
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
1. Images of the Outcast: The Urban
Poor in the Cries of London from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century.
Book-length manuscript under contract and in production at Manchester
University Press.
2. “Swift, Reynolds, and the Lower
Orders.” Accepted for publication and in production in a collection of essays
forthcoming from Delaware University Press.