Curriculum Vitae Martin Maner Academic Employment: Professor of English, Wright State University, 1989- Director of Graduate Studies in English, Wright State University, 1986-88 Associate Professor, Wright State University, 1981-89 Assistant Professor, Wright State University, 1976-81 Lecturer, University of Virginia, 1975-76 Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 1974-75 Degrees and Institutions: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Ph.D. (English), 1975 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, M.A. (English), 1972 Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, B.A. cum laude (English), 1968 Military Service: Inductee, U.S. Army (Signal Corps), 1969 501st Signal Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, Viet Nam, 1970 Honorably Discharged as Sergeant E-5, 1971 Awards, Grants, and Fellowships: Presidential Award for Excellence in Research, Wright State University, 1999 College of Liberal Arts Research Grants, Wright State University, 1991; 1985; 1978 Danforth Career Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1971-74; 1968-69 Phi Beta Kappa, 1968 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 1968 Occidental College Faculty Writing Awards: First in Poetry, 1968; Second in Humanities, 1967 Arnston Award for Study of Jorge Borges, 1967 NCTE Achievement Award in Writing, 1964 Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth-century British literature, satire, Samuel Johnson, research writing Publications: Books The Research Process: A Complete Guide and Reference for Writers. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2000. The Spiral Guide to Research Writing. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1996. The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. Articles “The Authorship of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub--Once More.” Swift Studies (2006): 27-38.. "Research Writing: Proofread for Mechanical Errors." TEXT Technology 6.2 (1996): 97-101. "Psychobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Biographer." Psychohistory Review 23.1 (1994): 47-54. "Beerbohm's Seven Men and the Power of the Press." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 34 (1991): 133-51. "Johnson's Redaction of Hawkesworth's Swift." Age of Johnson 2 (1989): 311-34. "Samuel Johnson, Scepticism, and Biography." Biography 12 (1989): 302-19. "The Probable and the Marvelous in Johnson's Life of Milton." Philological Quarterly 66 (1987): 391-409. "'The Last of the Learned Printers': John Nichols and the Bowyer-Nichols Press." English Studies 65.1 (1984): 11-22. "Samuel Johnson's Lives: Its 'Nice Doubtfulness."' American Imago 40 (1983): 145-58. "Pope, Byron, and the Satiric Persona." Studies in English Literature 20 (1980): 557-73. "An Eighteenth-Century Editor at Work: John Nichols and Jonathan Swift." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 70 (1976): 481-99. "Satire and Sympathy in Johnson's Life of Savage." Genre 8 (1975): 107-18. Reviews “Women in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction and Transatlantic Politics.” Eighteenth-Century Life (forthcoming). "Max and Biography." Rev. of J. G. Riewald, Remembering Max Beerbohm: Correspondence, Conversations, Criticism. In English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 35 (1992): 73-76. Rev. of Catherine N. Parke, Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking. In South Atlantic Review 57.3 (1992): 128-31. Rev. of Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Prose in the Age of Poets. In Modern Philology 89 (1992): 592-97. Papers, Presentations “The Authorship of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub--Once More,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Canada, March 31, 2006 "Why Nobody Jammed after Beethoven: The Death and Rebirth of Improvisation," English Department Colloquium, Wright State University, May 12, 1999. "The Death and Rebirth of Improvisation," 13th Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, February 20, 1999. "Writing for Professional Publications," Center for Teaching and Learning, Wright State University, April 8, 1997. Co-Moderator of discussion of "It's All in the Timing," Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton, Ohio, September 21, 1995. "Introduction to the History of Jazz," Dayton-Montgomery Public Library, June 26, 1993. "Jazz and Elegy," English Department Colloquium, Wright State University, 1993. "Psychobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Biographer," 5th Annual De Bartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, February 16, 1991. "Johnson, Probability, and Biography," Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region, Iowa City, Iowa, April 30, 1988. "Getting a Handle on the Handbook," English Department Colloquium, 1985. "Some Kind of Blues," lecture/concert with jazz quartet, Liberal Arts Lecture Series, 1985, 1983. "A Biographer's Doubts: Johnson and the Lives of the Poets," English Department Colloquium, 1982. "The Language of the Arts in Seventeenth-Century Poetry," Symposium on the Arts in Seventeenth-Century England, 1978. Participation in Professional Societies: Treasurer, WSU Chapter (2001-2003), American Association of University Professors American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Cityfolk Johnson Society of the Central Region Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Modern Language Association Biographical Listings: Dict. of International Biography, Who's Who in American Education, Dir. of American Scholars, Who's Who in the Midwest, International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Who's Who in the World, Outstanding People of the 20th Century, Writer's Directory, 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the Twentieth Century, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, Contemporary Authors, Outstanding People of the 21st Century, Who's Who in the 21st Century