David S. Shields

Professor

McClintock Professor of Southern Letters

Office: 207 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-7630
dshields@mailbox.sc.edu

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Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982

Specialization Areas

• Early American Literature,
• History of the Book,
• Southern Studies,
• Intellectual History of the early modern Atlantic World

Recent Courses

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• ENGL 840A  Lit. of the Early South—Exploring a Phantom Nation
• ENGL 742  Early American Literature 

Current Research Project(s)

Sons of the Dragon: the literature of England's invasions of Spanish America 1570-1806

Women & Public Power in the Early Republic (w/ Fredrika Teute)

Editing, The Material World of Tidewater, the Lowcountry, and The Caribbean for USC Press

Essay on Learned Culture in antebellum America for Vol 2 of the History of the Book in America

The Genius of Ancient Britain: a revisionary portrait of the London career of Captain John Smith

Publications

Civil Tongues & Polite Letters in British America. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, & Commerce in British America. University of Chicago Press, 1990.(co-author with Myra Jehlin, Emory Elliott, Robert Ferguson, Michael Gilmore)

The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 1. Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1994.(co author with seven scholars)

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Volume 1, A History of the Book in America, eds. Hugh Amory & David D. Hall. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Editor, Special Issue, Southern Literary Journal: George Ogilvie's Carolina; or, The Planter (1776).

(co-editor with Carla Mulford) Finding Colonial Americas. Associated American University Presses, 2001.

Associate Editor, Pearson Custom Library of American Literature

40 chapters in books, journal articles, commissioned articles, and reference essays