Professor
Department of English
University of Minnesota
310B Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612)625-0390
mh@umn.edu
Central Interests
- Victorian studies
- book history
- lexicography
- pragmatics, literature, and the law
Honors & Awards
- Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, 1990–93
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1977–78
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1966–67
- Fulbright Fellowship, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1965–66
Background
- Education
- A.B. magna cum laude (English), Harvard College, 1963
- M.A. (English), Yale University, 1964
- Ph.D. (English), Yale University, 1967
- Academic appointments
- Chair, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 2003-2006
- Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, College of Liberal Arts, 1996–2000
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 1983–88
- Professor of English, University of Minnesota, 1982–
- Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota, 1973–82
- Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota, 1972–73
- Assistant Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University, 1967–72
Publications
- “Gazing at The Imperial Dictionary.” Book History 1 (1998): 156–81.
- “Reading the Visual Text: A Christmas Carol.” Yale University Library Gazette 74 (1999): 21–40.
- “From Street Ballad to Penny Magazine: ‘March of Intellect In the Butchering Line.’” Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. Ed. Laurel Brake, David Finkelstein, and Bill Bell. Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave, 2000. 93–103.
- “A Missive Missile.” The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Ed. Nancy Lewis Tuten and John Zubizarreta. Westport, ct: Greenwood, 2000. 209–10.
- “An Imagined World: The Imperial Gazetteer.” Imperial Co-histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press. Ed. Julie Codell. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 45–67.
- “Littera scripta manet: Blackstone and Electronic Text.” Studies in Bibliography 54 (2001 [2003]): 115–52.
- “The Number Trade at Blackie and Son.” Publishing History no. 55 (2004): 37–67.
- “Familiar Quotations.” Harvard Library Bulletin, n.s. 14 (2003 [2004]): 13–53.
- “Nathan Bailey.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 60 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 3: 268–70.
- “Dead Letters: Wills and Poems.” Texas Law Review 60 (1982): 507–25. Translated into Danish by Morten Visby as “Døde dokumenter: Testamenter og digte,” Lov og litteratur (Law and Literature), ed. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Helle Porsdam, and Henrick Skov Nielsen (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus Univiversitetsforlog, 2007), 155–87.
Professional Affiliations
- Vice-president, Dictionary Society of North America (2007-2009)