Christopher B. Fox

Acting Chair
Department of Irish Language and Literature
Professor
Department of English
Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

Degrees

B.A., Cleveland State University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton.

Research Profile

Fox's teaching and research covers a range of topics from literature and philosophy and literature and science to literary and cultural relations in eighteenth-century Ireland. He serves as Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. He is a Fellow of the Reilly Center and has taught in the History and Philosophy of Science program. He has authored Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Berkeley and London, 1988) and edited or co-edited several books, including Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1987), Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry (New York, 1990), Walking Naboth's Vineyard: New Studies of Swift (Notre Dame and London, 1995), and Gulliver's Travels: Authoritative Text and Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (Boston, New York and London, 1995). With Roy Porter and Robert Wokler, Christopher Fox has published Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains (Berkeley and London, 1995). Fox is currently completing The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. He has held individual Fellowships from the Newberry Library, NEH and ACLS.

Contact Information

422 Flanner Hall
631-3555
fox.1@nd.edu