Curriculum Vitae

Nelson Hilton

[ August, 2007 ]

Academic History

Name: Howard Nelson Hilton
Rank: Professor of English; Director, Center for Teaching and Learning; Director of Extended Education
Tenured: September 1985
Graduate Faculty: Since 1984
Highest Degree: Ph.D. in Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz, March 1979

Academic Positions:

• Professor, University of Georgia, since Sept., 1995
• Associate Professor, University of Georgia, 1985-95
• Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, 1979-85
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Fall, 1981
• Student Teacher, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer in Summer Session, Associate in Literature, Lecturer in Literature; University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971-79

Post-Graduate Awards:

• University of Georgia Study in a Second Discipline (Computer Science), 1996-97
• Yale Center of British Art, Summer Institute Fellowship, 1985
• Huntington Library Visiting Fellow, 1980
• The School of Criticism and Theory, Fellowship, 1979
• Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, United Kingdom, 1976-77

Scholarly Activities:

Books:

• Lexis Complexes: Literary Interventions. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 225.
• Literal Imagination: Blake's Vision of Words. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. xvi + 391.

Books edited and co-edited:

• Unnam'd Forms: Blake and Textuality. Edited with Thomas A. Vogler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986.
• Essential Articles for the Study of William Blake. Archon Books. Hamden, CT: The Shoe String Press, 1986.

Chapters and articles in books:

• "Blake & the Play of ‘Textuality’," in The Palgrave Companion to Blake Studies, ed. Nicholas Williams. Palgrave, 2006. Pp. 85-105.
  
• "Chip off the Old Board," in Technology and English Studies: Innovative Professional Paths, ed. James A. Inman and Beth L. Hewett. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 2006. Pp. 15-28. [pdf]
• "Blake's early works," in The Cambridge Companion to Blake, ed. Morris Eaves. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 191-209.
• "Renewing English Teaching with Computer Applications," in Teaching with Technology, ed. David G. Brown. Bolton, Ma.: Anker Publishing, 2000. Pp. 164-66.
• "What has Songs to do with Hymns?" in Blake in the Nineties, David Worrall and Stephen Clark, eds. London: St. Martin's, 1999. Pp. 96-113.
• " William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience," in A Companion to Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Pp. 103-112.
• "The Rankest Draught," in Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's Poetical Sketches, ed. Mark Greenberg. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. Pp. 165-202.
• "Blake in the Chains of Being" [below], reprinted in William Blake, New Casebooks, ed. David Punter. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. 71-93.
• "Blakean Zen" [below], reprinted in Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. 1-16.
• "Blake, William," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, eds. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1994. P. 92
• "Keats, Teats, and the Fane of Poesy," in Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms, eds. Deirdre Coleman and Peter Otto, West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1992; 49-72.
• "Edward Young. The Complaint and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts, in Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress, Washington: Library of Congress, 1991; 296-97.
• "Literal Tiriel Material," in Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method, eds. Donald Ault, Mark Bracher, and Dan Miller, Duke University Press, 1987; 99-110.
• "An Original Story" in Unnam'd Forms, eds. Hilton and Vogler [above]

Journal articles:

• "<emma>: Re-forming Composition with XML," with C. Desmet (lead), R. Balthazor, R. Cummings, A. Mitchell, A. Hart, Literary and Linguistic Computing, June 2005.
• "www.english.uga.edu/wblake," Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly (BIQ hereafter), 33.1 (Summer 1999), 11-16.
• "The Blake Digital Text Project," Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning, 1:1 (May 1999).
• "'I' Sings Blake's Songs," Symposium on Romanticism, eds. Deirdre Coleman and Peter Otto, Centre for British Studes, Occasional Papers No. 1 (Adelaide: CBS, 1990), 25-48 (+12 pp. illus.).
• "Fellow Travellers ..." Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 23:4 (Spring 1990), 204.
• "Under the Hill," BIQ 22:1 (Summer 1988), 16-17.
• "Blake and the Apocalypse of the Canon," Modern Language Studies, 18:1 (Winter 1988), 134-49.
• "Blake and the Perception of Science," Annals of Scholarship, 4:1 (Fall 1986), 54-68.
• "The Heavy Metal of Blake's Language," New Orleans Review, 13:3 (Fall 1986), 34-39.
• "Tennyson's Tears: Idle, Idol, Idyl," Essays in Criticism, 35:3 (July 1985), 223-37.
• "Blakean Zen," Studies in Romanticism, 24:2 (Summer 1985), 183-200.
• "Pudendaddendum," BIQ, 18:4 (Spring 1985), 235-36.
• "Some Sexual Connotations," BIQ, 16:3 (Winter 1982-83), 166-71.
• "Becoming Prolific Being Devoured," Studies in Romanticism, 21:3 (Fall 1982), 417- 24.
• "The Spectre of Darwin," BIQ, 15:1 (Summer 1981), 36-48.
• "Blake and the Mountains of the Mind," BIQ 14:4 (Spring 1981), 196-205.
• "Blake in the Chains of Being," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Inter- pretation 21:3 (Fall 1980), 212-35.
• "Spears, Spheres, and Spiritual Tears: Blake's Poetry as 'The Tyger,' ll. 17-20," Philological Quarterly, 59:4 (Fall 1980), 515-29.
• "The Sweet Science of Atmospheres in The Four Zoas," BIQ 12:2 (Fall 1979), 80-87.
• "The End of Bishop Blougram," Studies in Browning and His Circle, 7:2 (Fall 1979), 57-63.

Bulletins or reports:

• "Blake Rouzes the Faculties," in Teaching the Eighteenth Century: Three Courses, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1987, 24-37.
• "Universal Access to Information: Impossible Necesity?" (with Howard J. Hilton), in Sixth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, eds. Sarah K. Burton and Douglas D. Short, Rockville, Md.: Computer Science Press, 1983, p. 281.
• "Interface Standard Seen Key to Terminal Use," Computer World, March 29, 1982, pp. 21-22.

Electronic Publications:

• "Wordsworth Illustrates Blake ('All light is mute amid the gloom')," in ImageText 3.2 (www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext)
• "Golgonooza Songs" in Romantic Circles: Praxis Series, special issue, Digital Designs on Blake, ed. Ron Broglio. January 2005.
• Blake Digital Text Project (ongoing since February 1996)--this includes the electronic edition of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman; an on-line Concordance to that text, and an annotated, hypertext edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Notes in books:

• "Blake, William," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. P. 92.
• "Edward Young. The Complaint and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts," in Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1991. Pp. 296-97.

Abstracts:

• "Revelation from a bread mould" (with Jonathan Arnold), in Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science 422 (24 April 2003), 822-23.
• "Blake, Books, and the Press: Material Vehicles,"in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Transactions of the Seventh International Congress on the Enlightenment (1989), 619-20.

Book reviews:

• G. E. Bentley, Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: a Biography of William Blake, in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 37.3 (Winter, 2003-04), 107-12.
• K. E. Smith, An Analysis of William Blake's Early Writings and Designs to 1790, Including Songs of Innocence, in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 37:1 (Summer, 2003), 36-38
• Iain McCalman, et al. eds., The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 36.3 (Winter 2002-03), 107-111.
• William Richey, Blake's Altering Aesthetics, in European Romanticism Review 10.3 (Summer 1999), 380-86.
• Helen Bruder, William Blake and the Daughters of Albion, in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 32:1 (Summer 1998), 20-23.
• Marvin D. L. Lansverk, The Wisdom of Many, the Vision of One: The Proverbs of William Blake, in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 31:3 (Winter 1997-98); 84-86.
• Gerda Norvig, Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress; Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s; Morris Eaves, The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake; in Eighteenth-Century Studies 27.3 (Spring 1994): 519-25.
• Laura Dabundo, ed. Encyclopedia of Romanticism. New York: Garland, 1992. Jean Raimond and J. R. Watson, eds. A Handbook to English Romanticism. New York: St. Martin's, 1992. Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 27.3 (Winter 1993-94): 81-82.
• Peter Otto. Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Los, Eternity, and the Productions of Time in the Later Poetry of William Blake. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. Southern Review 26.3 (November 1993): 481-4.
• Harold Bloom, ed., William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Modern Critical Interpretations), in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (ECCB hereafter), n.s. 13 (1992), 385-86.
• Margaret Storch, Sons and Adversaries: Women in William Blake and D. H. Lawrence, in BIQ 25.4 (Spring 1992), 171-72.
• Robert N. Essick, William Blake and the Language of Adam, in BIQ 24.2 (Fall 1990), 67-70.
• Jerome J. McGann, Social Values and Poetic Acts: The Historical Judgment of the Literary Work, in South Central Review, 5:2 (Summer 1988), 99-100.
• G. E. Bentley, Jr., ed., William Blake's Works in Conventional Typography, in ECCB, n.s. 10 (1989), 558-59.
• Tadeusz Slawek, The Outlined Shadow: Phenomenology, Grammatology, Blake, in BIQ 22.4 (Spring 1989), 121-22.
• Michael Ferber, The Social Vision of William Blake, in Modern Language Studies, 18:1 (Winter 1988), 195-97.
• Alvin Kernan, Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson, in BIQ, 21:4 (Spring 1988), 165-67.
• Heather Glen, Vision and Disenchantment, in ECCB, n.s. 9 (1988), 526-27.
• Stanley Gardner, Blake's Innocence and Experience Retraced, in BIQ, 21:1 (Summer 1987), 27-29.
• Stephen Behrendt, The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton, in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 27:1 (Winter 1986), 106-12.
• Mark Bracher, Being Form'd: Thinking Through Blake's Milton, in Romanticism Past and Present, 10:1 (1986), 67-70.
• Edward Larrissy, William Blake, in BIQ, 20:2 (Fall 1986), 66-68.
• Kathleen Raine, Blake and the New Age, in ECCB, n.s. 6 (1985), 401-2.
• Robert Gleckner, Blake's Prelude, in Studies in Romanticism, 23:4 (Winter 1984), 409-13.
• Morton D. Paley, The Continuing City: Blake's Jerusalem, in Modern Language Quarterly, 45:4 (December 1984), 413-15.
• Ronald Paulson, Representations of Revolution, 1789-1820, in BIQ, 18:4 (Spring 1985), 221-23.
• Peter L. Thorslev, Jr., Romantic Contraries: Freedom and Destiny, in Philosophy and Literature, 9:2 (October 1985), 232-33.
• David Punter, Blake, Hegel and Dialectic, in BIQ, 17:4 (Spring 1984), 164- 69.
• Davis Grubb, Ancient Lights, in BIQ, 17:1 (Summer 1983), 30-31.
• Robert Essick, William Blake, Printmaker, Zachery Leader, Reading Blake's Songs, and Damrosch, Symbol and Truth, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 17:1 (Fall 1983), 64-68.
• Leopold Damrosch, Jr., Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth, in BIQ, 15:4 (Spring 1982), 192-96.
• Frank Lentricchia, After the New Criticism, in BIQ, 14:4 (Spring 1981), 212- 14.
• Maureen Quilligan, The Language of Allegory, in BIQ, 14:3 (Winter 1980- 81), 135-37.

Grants received:

• University of Georgia, Learning Technologies Grants Award, 2004-5 [$25,150] (continuation of following listing)
• University of Georgia, Learning Technologies Grants Award, 2002-3 [$8,000] (continuation of following listing)
• University of Georgia, Learning Technologies Grants Award, 2001-2 [$29,214] ("EngComp Markup: Comprehensive Re-engineering of English Composition, Major Activities and Student Services by means of Markup and Computer-Mediated Communication")
• National Endowment for the Humanities 1995 [$58,000] (Summer Seminars for School Teachers)
• National Endowment for the Humanities 1993 [$53,125] (Summer Seminars for School Teachers)
• University of Georgia Humanities Center Fellowship, 1993 [release from two courses of instruction]
• University of Georgia, Faculty Research Grant 1990 [$1,500]
• University of Georgia Humanities Center Fellowship, 1989 [release from two courses of instruciton]
• University of Georgia, Faculty Research Grant 1984 [summer stipend]

Recognitions and outstanding achievements:

• American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Teaching Award, 1986

Editorship or Editorial Board membership:

• Advisory editor, Romantic Chronology, since 1996
• Advisory editor, Annotated Bibliography for English Studies, since 1996
• Advisory editor, William Blake Archive, since 1998

Conference papers:

• "<emma> goes mainstream," [with R. Balthazor and C. Desmet] Educause, Oct. 2006
• "Reading Oryx and Crake," Society for Literature and Science, Oct. 2004
• "Imagining an English Markup and Management Application," panel on "EMMA: Re-forming Composition with XML," Convention for the Association of Computers and the Humanities, May 2003
• "Golgoonoza Songs/Golgonoozaic Textuality," panel on "Beyond the Archive: Immersive Textualty for William Blake's Poetry," Convention of theAssociation for Computers and the Humanities, May 2003
• "Golgonooza Songs," MLA Special Session on Blake Scholarship and New Technology, New York, Dec. 2002
• "Digital Revelation," Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Dec. 1998
• "The Blake Digital Text Project," WebNet '98, Orlando, Nov. 1998
• "Blake's Songs: of Instruction and its Experience," Special Session on Blake, NASSR Conference, November 1994
• "Hymns, Songs, and 'To Tirzah,'" conference on "Blake 1794-1994," Twickenham England, July 1994
• "Blake's Hymn and Her," ASECS Special Session on "Hymns," March 1994
• "Response to Gendering the Romantic Text" (chair: Prof. Anne Mellor); North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, August 1993 (read in absentia).
• "Response," MLA Special Session on "Blake and Women: Theory, Gender, and the Culture of Textuality," December 1991.
• "Nipple-Eyes," International Conference on Surrealism and the Oneiric Process in Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, Ga., October 1990.
• "Keats in the Fane of Poesy," conference on "Romanticism and the Imagination," Melbourne, Australia, July 1989.
• "Blake: The Joy of Text," Symposium on Romantic Imagination, Adelaide, Australia, July 1989.
• "Secrets of Rasselas," Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, October 1988.
• "Blake and the Press: Material Vehicles," 7th International Congress on Enlightenment, Budapest, July 1987.
• "Blake Rouzes the Faculties--2," ASECS Special Session on "New Approaches to Teaching the Eighteenth Century," April 1987.
• "Blake and the Canon," Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, February 1987.
• "Wrestling with Restless Rasselas," MLA Special Session on Mid-Eighteenth Century English Fiction, December 1986.
• "Blake Rouzes the Faculties," ASECS Special Session on "Teaching the Eighteenth Century," March 1986.
• "Blake and the Perception of Science," 17th International Congress of the History of Science, Berkeley, CA., July 1985.
• "Blake and Science," Division on Late-Eighteenth- Century English Literature, MLA, December 1983.
• "Blake's Theogony: 'then She bore Pale desire...,'" MLA Special Session on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Blake's Poetical Sketches, December 1983.
• "Blake, Reader-response, and the 'New Historicism,'" Seminar on "New Critical Methods," ASECS, April 1983.
• "Sub-vocal Polysemy: the case of Tennyson's 'Tears, Idle Tears,'" MLA Special Session on "Sound and Meaning in Poetry," December 1982.
• "Future Directions for Blake Criticism," MLA Special Session on "Blake and Criticism," December 1981.
• "Blake's `The Little Black Boy,'" Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1981.
• "Blake: the Fibres of his Beings," Special Session on "Scientific Concepts and Images in Eighteenth- Century Literature," Northeast Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, October 1981.
• "Double-entendre, Sexual- and Sex-hostility in Blake," MLA Special Session on "Blake and Sexuality," December 1980.
• "Blake as a Language," Seminar on "Blake," Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1980.
• "Response," Seminar on "Psychology and the Supernatural," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 1980.
• "Blake's Polysemous Words," MLA Special Session on "Blake and Language and Writing," December 1979.
• *"Blake's Visions: Of Wollstonecraft and Fuseli," Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, February 1979.

Public and University Service:

• University Council (2005 - ).
• Director, Center for Teaching and Learning (February 2006 - )
• Head, Department of English (July, 2001 - December, 2005).
• Executive Committee, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English (2003 - 05).
• "English Markup and Management Application," UGA Tech Expo, Nov. 2002.
• "Faculty Workload and Assessment in the Context of Technology-Rich Instruction," University of Georgia Board of Regents, Administrative Workshop, Athens, 28 March 2001. Handout and slides available at www.english.uga.edu/nhilton/28Mar2001.html .
• Panelist, UGA Center for the Humanities and Arts 'Provocative Conversation,': "The User-Inspired Research Paradigm," 2000.
• Co-organizer, UGA Center for Humanities and Arts Symposium, "Year 2020: The Research University in a Global Society," 2000.
• Chair, SAMLA Southeast Atlantic Graduate English group (1999-2001).
• Member, Campus Information Technology Forum (1999-2001).
• Member, Instructional Advisory Committee (1998-2001).
• Organizer, "New Methods of Pedagogy," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 1997.
• "Thinking about Humanities Computing," UGA Center for Humanities and Arts, Lunch-in-Theory presentation, 1997.
• Organizer, UGA Center for Humanities and Arts October Forum, "Webucation," 1996.
• Respondant, "Hypertext and Textual Studies," Graduate Romantic Studies Conference, 1996.
• "Hype and Hypertext," UGA ILSOC presentation, 1996.
• Chair, ASECS Seminar on Blake and Revolution, 1989.
• Chair, ASECS Seminar on "Mad Poets," 1986.
• Chair, ASECS Seminar on Blake and Science, 1981.
• Chair, MLA Special Session on Blake and the Eighteenth Century, 1980.
• Review Editor, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly (1980 - May, 2006)
• Peer Review for 9 institutions.
• Referee: Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly; Eighteenth-Century Life (1993); Oxford University Press (1993); University of Missouri Press (1991, 1995); Lehigh University Press (1990); Cornell University Press (1989, 1990, 1995);University of Georgia Press (1988, 1989);Ohio State University Press (1988);The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation (1988, 1989); University of Pennsylvania Press (1987); Cambridge University Press (1986);University Press of America (1986); McGill University Press (1996); Eighteenth-Century Studies (1986, 1988, 1997);Yeats Annual (1985); Modern Language Quarterly (1985); Louisiana State University Press (1983); Princeton University Press (1981, 1988, 1989); Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (1982).

Professional Memberships:

• Association for Computers in the Humanities
• Educause