Benjamin Pauley

Biography

Professor Pauley is a specialist in eighteenth-century British literature, and also works in the areas of bibliography (the study of books as material objects) and book history (the study of the social and cultural functions of books). He was founding Secretary of the Defoe Society and teaches Digital Approaches to Bibliography and Book History at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

Research Interests

• Early eighteenth-century British literature
• Bibliography and Book History

Of Note

Professor Pauley has published essays on Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, and William Godwin. In collaboration with Brian Geiger of the University of California-Riverside, Professor Pauley won a Google Digital Humanities Grant for work providing bibliographical identifications of books in the Google Books collection.

Teaching Interests

• Eighteenth-Century British and Transatlantic literature
• Book History

Publications

"Defoe and Attribution," in The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe, edited by Nicholas Seager, forthcoming (Oxford University Press)

"Johnson and Writing," in The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, edited by Jack Lynch, forthcoming (Oxford University Press)

"Crusoe's Rambling," in Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years, edited by Glynis Ridley and Andreas Mueller, forthcoming 2019 (Bucknell University Press)

"This Monstrous City: Imagining London in Defoe's A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain," in Positioning Daniel Defoe's Nonfiction: Form, Function, Genre, edited by Aino Mäkikalli and Andreas Mueller (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)

Benjamin Pauley