Education: A.B. 1957 Oberlin; A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1964 Harvard
Interests: 18th Century English Literature; Rise of the Novel; Satire.

Selected Works: The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910 – 2009 (2010).  Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe (1975, revised 1993); Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift (1972); Daniel Defoe and Middle-Class Gentility (1968).