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S. W. REID
EDUCATION
Duke University A.B. (1965)
University of Virginia M.A. (1966), Ph.D. (1972)
APPOINTMENTS
Professor of English
Director, Institute for Bibliography and Editing
Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Modern Language Association of America
The Bibliographical Society (London)
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Joseph Conrad Society of America (Executive Committee, 1981--1994)
Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.)
Association for Documentary Editing
AWARDS & GRANTS
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1974
Research Grant, Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1977
Research Grant (with Bruce Harkness), National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977--1979; renewed, 1980--1981
Research Grant (with Sydney J. Krause), National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979--1980; renewed, 1981--1982, 1983--1984
Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991--1992
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1992--1993
Ohio Humanities Council conference grant, 1995
Distinguished Scholar Award, Kent State, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
THE NOVELS AND RELATED WORKS OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN: BICENTENNIAL EDITION. An MLA-CEAA / CSE edition. 6 vols. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1977--1987. TEXTUAL EDITOR.
Wieland or The Transformation: An American Tale. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Edited with Sydney J. Krause and Alexander Cowie (1977). Volume I.
Ormond or The Secret Witness. Edited with Sydney J. Krause and Russel B. Nye (1982). Volume II.
Arthur Mervyn or Memoirs of the Year 1793. First and Second Parts. Edited with Sydney J. Krause and Norman S. Grabo (1980). Volume III.
Edgar Huntly or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker. Edited with Sydney J. Krause (1984). Volume IV.
Clara Howard. Jane Talbot. Edited with Sydney J. Krause and Donald A. Ringe (1986). Volume V.
Alcuin: A Dialogue. Stephen Calvert. Edited with Sydney J. Krause and Robert D. Arner (1987). Volume VI.
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin, by Charles Brockden Brown. Edited with Sydney J. Krause. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1978. (A "practical edition" derived from the Bicentennial volume, with a new Introduction.)
Edgar Huntly or Memoirs of A Sleep-Walker, by Charles Brockden Brown. Edited with Sydney J. Krause. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1986. (A "practical edition" derived from the Bicentennial volume, with revised Introduction and Note on the Text.)
Arthur Mervyn or Memoirs of the Year 1793. First and Second Parts. "Revised Edition", by Charles Brockden Brown. Edited with Sydney J. Krause and Norman S. Grabo. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 2002. (A "practical edition" derived from the Bicentennial volume, with a new critical note and "Selected Bibliography.")
Alcuin: A Dialogue. Edited with Sydney J. Krause. (In press). (A "practical edition" derived from the Bicentennial volume, with a new "Note on the Text" and a new Introduction by Fritz Fleishman.)
CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF JOSEPH CONRAD. An MLA-CSE Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. CHIEF EXECUTIVE EDITOR, 1985-.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. Edited with Bruce Harkness (1990).
Almayer's Folly: A Story of An Eastern River. Edited by Floyd Eugene Eddleman and David Leon Higdon; Introduction by Ian Watt (1994).
Notes on Life and Letters. Edited by J. H. Stape, with the assistance of Andrew Busza. (2003).
B. Articles & Notes
"The Composition and Revision of Coleridge's Essay on Aeschylus' Prometheus," Studies in Bibliography, 24 (1971), 176--183.
"Two Emendations in Passion Play II' of the Ludus Coventriae," English Language Notes, 11 (1973), 86--87.
"Justification and Spelling in Jaggard's Compositor B," Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974), 91--111.
"Another Copy of Hill's British Herbal (1756)," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 68 (1974), 310--312 (co-author).
"Brockden Brown in England: Notes on Henry Colburn's 1822 Editions of His Novels," Early American Literature, 9 (1974), 188--195.
"Charles Brockden Brown's Copy of Johnson's Dictionary (1783)," The Serif, 11 (Winter 1975), 12--20.
"Compositorial Spelling and Literal Rhyme: The Example of Jaggard's Compositor B," The Library, Ser. V, 30 (1975), 126--133.
"Some Spellings of Compositor B in the Shakespeare First Folio," Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976), 102--138.
"An Anomalous Copy of Smith's Edwin and Angelina (1797)," The Library, Ser. V, 32 (1977), 55--56.
"Don Manuel' and Its Ascription to Charles Brockden Brown," Resources for American Literary Study, 7 (1977), 177--181.
"An Index to Robert Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar, Studia Neophilologica, 49 (1977), 135--137.
"The Earliest Reposit = Replace'?" American Notes & Queries, 15 (1977), 86--87.
"Definitive Editions and Photocomposition," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 72 (1978), 321--326.
"The Typescript Leaf of Nostromo in the British Library," Conradiana, 13 (1981), 149--150 (co-author).
"The States and Issues of Brown's Edgar Huntly, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 75 (1981), 326--339 (co-author).
"The Editing of Folio Romeo and Juliet," Studies in Bibliography, 35 (1982), 43--66.
"The Texts of King Lear: A Review Essay," Shakespeare Studies, 15 (1983), 327--339.
"McKerrow, Greg, and Quarto Copy for Folio Romeo and Juliet," The Library, Ser. VI, 5 (1983), 118--125.
"The First Editions of The Secret Agent," The Library, Ser. VI, 5 (1983), 237--253.
"B and J': Two Compositors in Two Plays of the Shakespeare First Folio," The Library, Ser. VI, 7 (1985), 126--136.
"Optical Scanning and Systematic Documentary Editing," Documentary Editing, 13 (1991), 61ñ64; rpt. with corr. Documentary Editing, 13 (1991), 95--98.
"Conrad in Print and on Disk," Studies in the Novel (1995), 375--86; rpt. Textual Studies and the Common Reader, ed. Alexander Pettit (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2000), 126--40.
"American Markets, Serials, and Conrad's Career," The Conradian, 28 (2003), 57--99.
"Some Reflections on the Typescript Version of The Smile of Fortune'," Conradiana (in proof).
C. Reviews & Miscellaneous
Correspondence: "The Compositors of the Pavier Quartos," The Library, Ser. V, 31 (1976), 382--384.
"Toward the Definitive Text: Seminar at the International Shakespeare Association Congress, Washington, D.C. April 20, 1976," The Shakespeare Newsletter, 26 (November 1976), 34; rpt. Shakespeare: Pattern of Excelling Nature, ed. David Bevington & Jay L. Halio (Newark, Del.: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1978), pp. 242--243.
Review: The Printed Book in America, by Joseph Blumenthal, Resources for American Literary Study, 9 (1979), 230--232.
Review: The Texts of King Lear and their Origins, vol. I, by Peter W. M. Blayney, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 78 (1984), 489--493.
Correspondence: "To the Editor," Early American Literature, 20 (1985), 180--185 (co-author).
"Editorial Manual: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad." Center for Conrad Studies, Kent State University, 1986. Revised 2001.
Correspondence: "University Presses," TLS, 21--27 July 1989, 799.
Review: "William Makepeace Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond. Edited by Edgar F. Harden. Volume I, The Works of W. M. Thackeray: General Editor, Peter L. Shillingsburg. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1989. Pp. xxx + 660," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 90 (1991), 583--88.
The Conrad Courier (Newsletter of the Cambridge Edition of Joseph Conrad), no. 1, March 1995.
Correspondence: "A Modest Proposal," Joseph Conrad Today, 20, no. 3 (1995), 3--4.
Review: "Walter Pater: Gaston de Latour: The Revised Text. Edited by Gerald Monsman. Greensboro: ELT Press, 1995. Pp. xlvi + 336, English Literature in Transition, 1880--1920, 39 (1996), 345--48.
D. Papers & Conferences
"The Text of Brown," MLA convention, December 1974.
Secretary, seminar on Shakespeare's text, International Shakespeare Association Congress, April 1976.
"Identifying Folio Compositors: The State of the Art," seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, April 1977.
Discussant, seminar on Shakespeare's text, Shakespeare Association of America, April 1978.
"Apparatus for Shakespeare," seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, April 1979.
"Reversible Readings in The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad Society of America, MLA convention, December 1980.
"The Bad Quarto' and the Folio Text of Romeo and Juliet," seminar, International Shakespeare Association Congress, August 1981.
"Textual Bibliography and Conrad's Fiction: Light Shed by the Dismal Science," MLA convention, December 1981 (co-author).
Respondent, "Textual Problems as They Bear upon Editing Conrad," Joseph Conrad Society of America, MLA convention, December 1985.
"Conrad's Collected Editions: The Case of The Secret Agent Author's Note'," Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), July 1986.
"Computing Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America, April 1989.
"Computerizing Editions: Requirements and Repercussions," Society for Textual Scholarship Fifth Biennial International Conference, April 1989.
Chair, Bibliography & Textual Studies Discussion Group, MLA, December 1990.
"Shakespeare on Computer: A View of the Ins and Outs," Shakespeare Association of America, April 1990.
"Optical Scanning and Systematic Documentary Editing," Association for Documentary Editing, October 1990.
"Conrad Research: Resources for the Future," Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), July 1993.
Panelist, "The BBC Film Version of The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), July 1993.
"Conrad from PC to Typesetter," Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1994.
"The Cambridge Digital Edition of Joseph Conrad," white paper for a meeting of the Editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, 8 April 1995.
Co-organizer, "Conrad's Century: The Past and Future Splendour," special international meeting of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, Kent State University, 6--9 April 1995.
Secretary, Bibliography section, Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1995.
Discussant, "Twenty-first Century Technologies and the Practice of Bibliography and Scholarly Editing," Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1995.
"Present and Future Plans for the C.U.P. Collected and Digital Editions of Joseph Conrad," Twenty-second Annual International Conference on Conrad, July 1996.
Chair, Bibliography section, Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1996.
"Standards for Transcription of Manuscripts and Typescripts," Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1996.
Chair, "Plenary Session: The Informer': Conrad's Aesthetic Adventure, by Ted Billy," Conrad in Philadelphia: 1997 (Special Meeting of the Joseph Conrad Society of America), April 1997.
"On Screen: Student Access to The Secret Sharer'," Modern Language Association, December 1997.
"What's Happening to Conrad's Texts?" Joseph Conrad Society (UK), July 1998.
Chair, "Plenary Session: Life and Letters, Letters and Life: the final three volumes,' by Frederick R. Karl" Joseph Conrad Society of America (Special Meeting, Colgate University), August 1998.
"Changing Texts of Conrad," Joseph Conrad Society of America (Special Meeting, Colgate University), August 1998.
"A New Berth for The Secret Sharer' (text)?" The Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), July 2000.
"The Typescript Version of The Smile of Fortune'," Joseph Conrad Society of America (Special Meeting, Texas Tech University), August 2000.
"Reflections on the Typescript Version of The Smile of Fortune'," The Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), July 2001.
"Dismayed but Not Defeated: Conrad's Colonization of the Serial," Plenary Address: Joseph Conrad Society of America (Special Meeting, "Conrad and Territoriality," University of British Columbia), August 2002.
"The Secret Sharer': Two Observations on Leggatt's Englishness," The Joseph Conrad Society (UK), July 2003.
E. Digital Forms
ModBrits: Modern British and Irish Literature, 1895--1955. Internet Discussion Group. Founder and "owner"; joint editor / moderator. 1992-. Over 1,000 subscribers, though number varies.