Christopher B. Fox
Professor
Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Specialty
Eighteenth-century British literature, literature and science, and Eighteenth-century Ireland
Degrees
B.A., Cleveland State University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
Profile
Christopher B. Fox is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the interrelations of literature and the emerging human sciences, especially psychology and medicine, in the eighteenth century. He is also interested in cultural relations in eighteenth-century Ireland and currently directs the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, which he co-founded with Seamus Deane. He has been a Fellow of the Reilly Center and taught in the History and Philosophy of Science program. He has held individual Fellowships from the Newberry Library, NEH, and ACLS, and he directed a NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on "Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800."
Selected Publications
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Fox, Christopher B., Roy Porter and Robert Wokler, eds. Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Fox, Christopher B. and Brenda Touley. Walking Naboth’s Vineyard: New Studies of Swift. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1995.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels: Authoritative Text and Case Studies in
Contemporary Criticism. Edited by Christopher B. Fox. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Fox, Christopher B., ed. Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry. New York: AMS Press, 1990.
———. Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century. New York:
AMS Press, 1987.
Contact Information
422 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-3555
Christopher.B.Fox.1@nd.edu