David Vander Meulen

(1984)
Professor
Bibliography and Textual Criticism, Eighteenth Century Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1981
M.A. Wisconsin, 1971
B.A. Calvin, 1970

Books

  • The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: The First Fifty Years, ed. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998.
  • MOSQUITOES (by William Faulkner): A Facsimile and Transcription of the University of Virginia Holograph Manuscript, ed., with Thomas L. McHaney. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Library, 1997.
  • Samuel Johnson's Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, ed., with G. Thomas Tanselle. The Johnsonians and the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993.
  • Pope's "Dunciad" of 1728: A History and Facsimile. University of Virginia Press, 1991.
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope. Library of Congress, 1988.
  • Editor, Studies in Bibliography, 1991-
  • Assistant Editor, Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), 1980-1983.

Articles

  • "How to Read Book History," Studies in Bibliography 56 (2003-4).
  • "Sir William Dugdale and the Making of Books," in Marion Roberts, Dugdale and Hollar: History Illustrated (2002).
  • "An Essay towards Perfection: J. D. Fleeman's A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson," The Age of Johnson 13 (2002).
  • "The Editing of Pope's Dunciad from Scriblerus to ***," in Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ed. Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, and Stephen E. Karian (2001).
  • "Revision in Bibliographical Classics: 'McKerrow' and 'Bowers,'" Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999).
  • "A System of Manuscript Transcription," Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999) With G. Thomas Tanselle.
  • "The Editorial Principles of Martinus Scriblerus," in The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace Kirsop, ed. David Garrioch et al. (1999).
  • "A History of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: The First Fifty Years" and "Publications of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1947-1996," Studies in Bibliography 50 (1997).
  • "Unauthorized Editions of Pope's Dunciad, 1728-1751," Writers, Books, and Trade: An Eighteenth-Century English Miscellany for William B. Todd, ed. O M Brack Jr. (1994).
  • "Fredson Bowers as Music Critic," Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1991 (1992).
  • "The Dunciad in Four Books and the Bibliography of Pope," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1989).
  • "The History and Future of Bowers's Principles," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1985), reprinted in Fredson Bowers at Eighty (1985).
  • "The Identification of Paper Without Watermarks: The Example of Pope's Dunciad," Studies in Bibliography (1984).
  • "The Printing of Pope's Dunciad, 1728," Studies in Bibliography (1982).

Honors

  • Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf Fellowship, University of Texas, 2001
  • Rawlings Prize, 1997
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1996-1997
  • Vice-President, Bibliographical Society of America, 1992-1996
  • Engelhard Lecture in Bibliography, The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 1987
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1986, 2000
  • Bibliographical Society of America Fellow, 1983-1984
  • William Andrews Clark Library Fellow, 1982