HUGH JOHN ORMSBY-LENNON

        University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1977 (Diss. Title: The Dialect of those Fanatick Times: Language, Communities and English Poetry, 1580-1660."
                    Directors: Paul J. Korshin and Roland Mushat Frye).
        University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1974 (with distinction).
        Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1971-72.
        King's College, Cambridge, M.A., 1974; B.A., 1970 (First Class Honors).

BIBLIOGRAPHY
(Note: A list of papers presented is omitted but can be supplied.)

Books:

Curious Couple: Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin. In progress.

Hey Presto! Jonathan Swift, Jesus the Mountebank, and A Tale of a Tub. Accepted for publication by the University of Delaware Press, Spring 2007. Publication expected ca. spring 2008.

Fools of Fiction: Reading William Trevor's Stories. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., January 2005.

Co-editor and contributor, Secret Texts: Literature of Secret Societies. New York: AMS Press, 1995.

Essays:

"From Banbury Churchyard to Edge of Empire: Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin" (in press, Swift Studies, 2007).

ATrips, Spies, Amusements and the Apogee of the Public Sphere,@ Proceedings of the Fourth Muenster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. H. J. Real (Munich, 2003), pp. 177-224.

        Two 2000-word entries, on APornography@ (co-authored with Joseph Pappa) and on ASatire,@ The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2003).

    "Fields of Dreams: Diggers, Cargo Cults, and the Ursprache,” In The Language of Adam. Ed. Allison Coudert. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999, pp. 193-245.

    "Classis? Under the Stage-Itinerant." In Swift: The Enigmatic Dean. Ed. R. Freiburg. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1998, 173-199.

     "Commonplace Swift." In Reading Swift. Ed. Hermann J. Real. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998, 13-44.

    "Nature's Mystick Book: From Renaissance Arcanum to Restoration Cant," Secret Texts: Literature of Secret Societies, eds. Marie Roberts and Hugh Ormsby-Lennon (New York: AMS Press, 1995), 22-94.

    "From Shibboleth to Apocalypse: Quaker Speechways during the Puritan Revolution," Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language, eds. Peter Burke and Roy Porter (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), 72-112. A substantially revised and updated version of "Dallo Scibboletho all'Apocalisse."

    "Swift and the Quakers: II," Swift Studies 5 (1990), 53-89.

    "Dallo Scibboletho all'Apocalisse: Le Consuetudini Linguistiche dei Quaccheri durante La Rivoluzione Puritana," Lingua Tradizione Rivelazione: Le Chiese e la Comunicazione Sociale, eds. Lia Formigari and Donatella Di Cesare (Casale Monferrato: Marietti Universita, 1989), 107-31.

    "Swift and the Quakers: I," Swift Studies 4 (1989), 34-62.

   "Rosicrucian Linguistics: Twilight of a Renaissance Tradition," Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe, ed. Ingrid Merkel and Allen Debus (Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1988), 311-341; Reviewed favorably in TLS.

    "Raising Swift's Spirit: Das Dong-an-sich," Swift Studies 3 (1988), 9-78.

    "Radical Physicians and Conservative Poets in Restoration England: Dryden among the Doctors," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 7 (1978), 389-411. Reviewed favorably in RES, MLR.

    "Metaphor and Madness," ETC: A Review of General Semantics 33 (1976), 307-18.

    "Poetic Standards on the Early Augustan Battleground," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 5 (1976), 252-80.

Review Essays

    Review of William Trevor, A Bit on the Side (2004), forthcoming in The Weekly Standard.

    Review of Raymond Stephanson, The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750 (2004), forthcoming in University of Toronto Quarterly.

    “And So to Bed: the extraordinary life of Samuel Pepys,” The Weekly Standard, January 20, 2003, 31-35, review-essay of Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002). Lead review-essay.

    “The Dream of Mechanical Life,” The Weekly Standard, December 23, 2002, 31-35. Lead review-essay of thirteen books on eighteenth-century automata, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. “Flash” on cover. Lead review-essay.

    "The Last Alchemist,@ review of Iain McCalman, Count Cagliostro: Master of Magic in the Age of Reason (2003). The Weekly Standard, September 15, 2003, 43.

    "Wren=s London," The Weekly Standard, February 4, 2002, 35-37. Review-essay of Adrian Tinniswood, A Life of Sir Christopher Wren (2001).

   "Ackroyd=s Guide to London," The Weekly Standard, October 15, 2001, 35-38. Review-essay of Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (2001).

AThe Correspondence of Jonathan Swift: A Review Article,@ Anglican and Episcopal History, 70 (2001), 498-503. Review-essay of David Woolley, ed., The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift: Volume I, Letters 1690-1714 (1999).

"Hobbes's Nature: The Life of the liveliest and most fearful philosopher," The Weekly Standard, February 19, 2001, 33-39.

   "Jonathan Swift's Travels: The Life of the Enigmatic Dean," The Weekly Standard, May 24, 1999, 31-34. Review essay of

    Richard W. F. Kroll, The Material Word: Literate Culture in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century (1991), The Age of Johnson 5 (1992), 477-486

    Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy: On The Interpretation of Narrative (1979), CLIO 13 (1984), 273-278.

Reviews
    Patricia Fara, Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England (1997) First Things 73 (1997), 53-55.

    Francoise Lapraz-Severino, Relativité et Communication dans Les Voyages de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift (1988), The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 15 (1996), 420-421.

    Kenneth Craven, Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness: The Information Age in Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1992), Anglican and Episcopal History 79 (1995), 87-89.

    Richard S. Harrison, Cork City Quakers, 1655--1939: A Brief History (1991), Quaker History 82 (1993), 42-44.

    Lyndy Abraham, Marvell and Alchemy (1990), Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism 12 (1993), 13-15.

    Marie Roberts, British Poets and Secret Societies (1986), The Wordsworth Circle 19 (1988), 219.

    Michael Srigley, Images of Regeneration: A Study of Shakespeare's The Tempest and its Cultural Background (1985), Modern Philology 85 (1988), 321-323.

    Gerard Reedy, S.J. The Bible and Reason: Anglicans and Scripture in Late Seventeenth-Century England (1985) and Stephen H. Daniel, John Toland: His Methods, Manners, and Mind (1984), The Modern Language Review 83 (1988), 954-957.

    Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans (1981) and Robert E. Sullivan, John Toland and the Deist Controversy (1982), Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism 7 (1988), 11-13.

    Sylvain Auroux, Jean-Claude Chevalier, Nicole Jacques-Chaquin and Christiane Marchello-Nizia, eds., La Linguistique Fantastique (1985), Language and Society 15 (1986), 575-576.

    Alan Rudrum, ed., The Works of Thomas Vaughan (1984), ISIS, 77 (1986), 195-196.

    Timothy D'Arch Smith, Montague Summers: A Bibliography (1983) and R.A. Gilbert, A.E. Waite: A Bibliography (1983), The Yearbook of English Studies 16 (1986), 354-356.

    G.S. Rousseau, ed., The Letters and Papers of Sir John Hill (1982), The Yearbook of English Studies 16 (1986), 270-272.

    Charles Schmitt, John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England (1983), ISIS 76 (1985), 637-638.

    Wayne Shumaker, Renaissance Curiosa: John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Girolamo Cardano's Horoscope of Christ; Johannes Trithemius and Cryptography; George Dalgarno's Universal Language (1982), Modern Philology 82 (1985), 417-419.

    Walter Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science Medicine (1982), Annals of Science 40 (1983), 508-10.

    Robert M. Schuler, ed., English Magical and Scientific Poems to 1700: An Annotated Bibliography (1979), ISIS 72 (1981), 111-12.

    Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge, Language as Ideology (1979) and K.K. Ruthven, Critical Speculations (1979), The Modern Language Review 76 (1981), 139-42.

    S.K. Heninger, Jr., The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe (1977), Modern Philology 77 (1980) 432-435.

    Patrick Parrinder, Authors and Authority: A Study of English Literary Criticism and its Relation to Culture 1750-1900 (1977), The Modern Language Review 75 (1980), 630-632.

    Norman Fruman, Coleridge: The Damaged Archangel (1971), American Scholar 41 (1972), 468-472.

Other
    "Widening Perspectives in Renaissance Language," Catalogue to Book Exhibit at the Newberry Library (for limited circulation), 1981.

Film
    Basic Training (Le Bul Productions, Philadelphia, 1972).

Prizes and Fellowships

Villanova University Summer Research Grant, 1998.
Villanova University Summer Grant-in-Aid, 1997.
Herzog August Bibliotek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Travelling Fellowship, May 1995.
American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1991.
ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1990.
ACLS Travel Grant, May 1989.
T. Wistar Brown Fellow, Quaker Collection, Haverford College, 1987-88.
ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1987.
Villanova University Summer Research Grant, 1986.
Northwestern University Research Grant, 1982.
Research Fellowship, The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles,
     Spring 1981 (declined).
NEH Fellow, The Newberry Library, 1980-81.
ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1979.
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow, 1976-77.
Irving J. Lee Award for General Semantics (presented by the International Society for General Semantics), 1973.

Scholarships
Thouron Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 1971-74.
Rupert Brooke Travelling Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, 1969.
Senior Scholar, ibid., 1969-70.
Prizeman, ibid., 1968-70.
Leathersellers' Company Scholar, Cambridge University 1967-70.
Haberdashers' Company Scholar, ibid., 1967-70.

Academic Positions
Associate Professor of English, Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania, 19085
    1990 to present.
Assistant Professor, Villanova University, 1985-1990.
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, 1984-1985.
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 1977-1984.
Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1976.
English Master, Sherborne School, Dorset, England, 1971.

Employment
Resident Advisor, Harnwell House, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-76.
Research Assistant, Higher Education Research Unit, London School of Economics, 1970.
Secretariat, Royal Commission on Medical Education, 1967.