Hume, Robert D. 1944-

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HUME, Robert D. 1944-

PERSONAL: Born July 25, 1944, in Oak Ridge, TN; son of David Newton (a college professor) and Aloyse (Bottenwiser) Hume; married Kathryn Irvine (a college teacher), June 18, 1966. Ethnicity: "Anglo-Scottish." Education: Haverford College, B.A. (with honors), 1966; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1969. Politics: Independent. Hobbies and other interests: Theater, opera.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. E-mail—[email protected]

CAREER: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, assistant professor, 1969-74, associate professor of English, 1974-77; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, professor of English, 1977-90, distinguished professor, 1990-91, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, 1991-98, Evan Pugh Professor, 1998—.

MEMBER: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, American Society for Theatre Research, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1966; Guggenheim fellow, 1983-84.

WRITINGS:

Dryden's Criticism, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1970.

The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century, Clarendon Press, 1976.

(Co-editor) "The Country Gentleman": A "Lost" Play and Its Background, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1976.

(Co-editor) Elizabeth Polwhele, The Frolicks; or, the Lawyer Cheated, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1977.

(Editor) The London Theatre World, 1660-1800, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1980.

(Co-editor) Vice Chamberlain Coke's Theatrical Papers, 1706-1715, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1982.

The Rakish Stage, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1983.

(Co-author) Producible Interpretation: Eight English Plays, 1675-1707, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1984.

(Co-editor) Roscius Anglicanus, Society for Theatre Research, 1987.

Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1988.

(Co-compiler) A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660-1737, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1991.

(Co-author) The Impresario's Ten Commandments: Continental Recruitment for Italian Opera in London, 1763-64, Royal Musical Association, 1992.

(Co-author) Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995-Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1999.

Editor for English and American literature annual eighteenth-century bibliography in Philological Quarterly, 1971-74.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Revision of Parts I and II of The London Stage, 1660-1800; an Oxford English text, Buckingham.