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John F Burrows

Curriculum Vitae

Emeritus Professor of English

University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia

Born Armidale, NSW, 13.6.1928Married, three daughters

• Hunter Baillie Fellow of St Andrew's College, University of Sydney, 1963-76
• Commonwealth Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, 1980
• Fellow of Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1988
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1989—
• Chair of English Section, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1996-98
• Recipient of Australian Research Council Large Grants in sixteen of the years from 1981 to 1999

1946-49 Student, New England University College1950-59 Schoolteacher, NSW1960-75 Senior Tutor, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Sydney1976-89 Professor of English, University of Newcastle1976-8, 1981-3, 1986-7 Head of Department1981-3, 1986-7 Dean of the Faculty of Arts1989-2001 Director of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing1989— Emeritus Professor

Publications

Books and monographs

Burrows, J. F., Jane Austen's 'Emma', Sydney, University Press, 1968, 132 pp.	Reviews Times Literary Supplement, 27 Nov. 1969, 1357; Nineteenth-Century Fiction, xxiv (1969), 248; English Studies, ii (1970), 7; Southern Review, iii (1969), 281-3; The Teaching of English, 15 (1969), 75-6; Australian Book Review, April 1969, 114; The Year's Work in English Studies, l (1969), 311-12.
—, Andrew Marvell and the Idea of Wit, Sydney, Wentworth Press, 1972.
—, Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels and an Experiment in Method, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, xvi+255pp.	Reviews London Review of Books, 25 June 1987, 11-13; Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 Oct. 1987, 32; and, in a general review-article, ibid., 6 Nov. 1987, viii; British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, xii (1988), 100-01; Cambridge Quarterly, xvii (1988), 376-81; Notes and Queries, xxxv (1988), 542-3; Review of English Studies, xl (1989), 429-30; AUMLA, 73 (1990), 230-5. Major citations Park Honan, Jane Austen: Her Life (London, 1987), p.418; Susan Hockey, 'Austen Analysed, Dante Dissected', Oxford Today, i (1988), 18-19; Thomas B. Horton, 'Frequent Words, Authorship and Characterization in Jacobean Drama', in Susan Hockey and Nancy B. Ide (ed.), Research in Humanities Computing '90 (Oxford, 1993); Thomas N. Corns, 'Computers in the Humanities: Methods and Applications in the Study of English Literature', Literary and Linguistic Computing, vi (1991), 127-8.

Machine-readable edition

Burrows, J. F., Alexis Antonia, & L. Burnard (compilers), The Oxford Electronic Jane Austen, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992.

Major articles (brief articles and reviews are not listed)

• Burrows, J. F., 'An Approach to the Plays of Douglas Stewart', Southerly, xxiii (1963), 94-108.
• —, 'The Short Stories of Patrick White', Southerly, xxiv (1964), 116-25.
• —, 'Archetypes and Stereotypes: Riders in the Chariot', Southerly, xxv (1965), 45-68.
• —, 'Patrick White's Four Plays', Australian Literary Studies, ii (1966), 155-70.
• *—, 'Jardin exotique: the Central Phase of The Aunt's Story', Southerly, xxvi (1966), 152-73.
• —, 'Stan Parker's Tree of Man', Southerly, xxix (1969), 257-79.
• —, 'Rosemary Dobson's Sense of the Past', Southerly, xxx (1970), 163-76.
• —, 'Shaw Neilson's Originality', Southerly, xxxii (1972), 118-44.
• — & Ruth Harrison and Clifford Hanna, 'A Gathering of Fugitives: an Account of Some Neilson Manuscripts', Southerly, xxxiii (1973), 313-22. Burrows, J. F., 'His Natural Life and the Capacities of Melodrama', Southerly, xxxiv (1974), 280-301.
• — & Ruth Harrison, 'More of Neilson's Fugitives', Southerly, xxxv (1975), 276-93. *Burrows, J. F., 'Persuasion and its Sets of People', Sydney Studies in English, ii (1976), 1-23.
• *—, 'A Measure of Excellence: Modes of Comparison in Pride and Prejudice', Sydney Studies in English, v (1979-80), 38-59.
• —, 'ìNothing out of the Ordinary Wayî: Differentiation of Character in the Twelve Most Common Words of Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Emma', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vi (1983), 17-41.
• —, Modal Verbs and Moral Principles: an Aspect of Jane Austen's Style', Literary and Linguistic Computing, i (1986), 9-23.
• —, 'The Reciprocities of Style: Literary Criticism and Literary Statistics', Essays and Studies, ns xxxix (1986), 78-93.
• —, 'Word-Patterns and Story-Shapes: the Statistical Analysis of Narrative Style', Literary and Linguistic Computing, ii (1987), 61-70.
• — & A. J. Hassall, 'Anna Boleyn and the Authenticity of Fielding's Feminine Narratives', Eighteenth-Century Studies, xxi (1988), 427-53. Burrows, J. F., 'ìA Visionî as a Revision?', Eighteenth-Century Studies, xxii (1989), 551-65.
• —, 'ìAn Ocean where each Kind ...î: Statistical Analysis and some Major Determinants of Literary Style', Computers and the Humanities, xxiii (1989), 309-21.
• —, 'I Lisp'd in Numbers: Fielding, Richardson, and the Appraisal of Statistical Evidence', The Scriblerian, xxxiii (1991), 234-41.
• —, 'Computers and the Study of Literature', in Christopher Butler (ed.), Computers and Written Texts: an Applied Perspective, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992, pp. 167-204.
• —, 'Fossicking about the Territory: Testing for Specimens of an Australian Narrative Dialect', in Margaret Harris & Elizabeth Webby (ed.), Reconnoitres: Essays in Honour of G. A. Wilkes, Sydney University Press/Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 36-53, 241-9.
• *—, 'Not unless you ask nicely: The Interpretative Nexus between Analysis and Information', Literary and Linguistic Computing, vii (1992) 91-110. *— & D. H. Craig, 'Lyrical Drama and the ìTurbid Mountebanksî: Styles of Dialogue in Romantic and Renaissance Tragedy', Computers and the Humanities, 28 (1994), 1-24.
• *—, 'Computers and the Idea of Authorship', in Deryck Schreuder (ed.), The Humanities and a Creative Nation: Jubilee Essays, Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1995, pp. 89-108.
• —, 'Tiptoeing into the Infinite: Testing for Evidence of National Differences in the Language of English Narrative', in Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide (ed.), Research in Humanities Computing '92, Oxford, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 1-33.
• —, 'Numbering the Streaks of the Tulip? Reflections on a Challenge to the Use of Statistical Methods in Computational Stylistics', Computers in the Humanities Working Papers (1996): http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp.
• *—, 'A Strange and Self-Abuse? The Authorship of 'A Panegyric on the Reverend Dean Swift', in Geoffrey Little (ed.), Imperfect Apprehensions: Essays in Honour of G. A. Wilkes, Sydney, Challis Press, 1996, pp. 115-32.
• *—, 'Style', in Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Cambridge, University Press, 1997, pp. 189-210. Sussex, Lucy & John Burrows, 'Whodunit? Literary Forensics and the Crime Writing of James Skipp Borlase and Mary Fortune', Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, xxi (1997), 73-106. Burrows, John & Harold Love, 'The Role of Stylistics in Attribution: Thomas Shadwell and "The Giants' Warî, Eighteenth-Century Life, 22 (1998), 18-30.
• *—, 'Attribution Tests and the Editing of Seventeenth-century Poetry', Yearbook of English Studies, 29 (1999), 151-75.
• *Burrows, John, 'A Computational Approach to the Rochester Canon': an Appendix, contributed by invitation to Harold Love (ed.), The Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Oxford, Clarendon, 1999), pp. 681-95.
• —, 'Computers and the Idea of Authorship' (1995), reprinted by invitation in Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, et al. (edd.), Rückkehr des Autors. Zur Erneuerung eines umstrittenen Begriffs (Tübingen, Niemeyer Verlag, 1999), pp. 133-44. Burrows, John & Harold Love, 'Did Aphra Behn write ìCaesar's Ghostî?', The Culture of the Book: Essays presented to Wallace Kirsop (Melbourne, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1999), pp. 148-72. Wayne McKenna, John Burrows, & Alexis Antonia, 'Beckett's Molloy: Computational Stylistics and the Meaning of Translation', in Marie Ramsland (ed.), VariÈtÈ: Perspectives in French Literature, Society, and Culture. Studies in Honour of Kenneth Raymond Dutton (Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 79-92.
• *—, 'Beckett's Trilogy: Computational Stylistics and the Nature of Translation', RISSH, 35 (1999), 151-71. Burrows, John & Hugh Craig, 'Lucy Hutchinson and the Authorship of Two Seventeenth-Century Poems: a Computational Approach', The Seventeenth Century, 16 (2001), forthcoming. Burrows, John, 'Jane Austen', contributed by invitation to D. A. Cruse, Franz Hundsnurcher, et al. (edd.) Lexikologie, Lexicology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von W–rten and Wortsch”tzen (Berlin, de Gruyter), forthcoming.

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