Curriculum Vitae

St Catherine‟s College | Manor Road | Oxford | OX1 3UJ Tel: 07515 403 887 | Email: john.mctague@ell.ox.ac.uk John-Joseph McTague RESEARCH PROJECTS - DPhil in English, St Catherine‟s College, University of Oxford 2006-present - Thesis Title: “A Prodigious Number of Pretenders”: Literary Politics and Politic Literature, 1678-1720 - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Gerrard, Lady Margaret Hall Funded by the AHRC (fees and maintenance) - Book Project: 1708: Politics, Hoax, and Opinion in Britain My thesis accounts for the manner in which the constitutional and dynastic turmoil of the mid and late seventeenth century affected the ways texts, culture, and politics were understood and deployed from 1678 to 1720. ongoing A cultural history of the year 1708, concentrating on the polemical representation of politics across various media, with an emphasis on the popular, journalistic and ephemeral. EDUCATION & AFFILIATION - MSt in English (1550-1780), Mansfield College, University of Oxford 2005-6 - BA English Lang. And Lit., Mansfield College, University of Oxford 2002-5 - Member of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies - Junior Member of the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, Oxford. ELECTRONIC PROJECTS First Class (ranked 11th) Distinction (ranked 2nd). Funded by the AHRC (fees and maintenance) - http://restorationtoreform.blogspot.com (publicity for a C18th seminar series, ongoing) - http://doingenglish.blogspot.com (supporting a graduate-led lecture series with lecture abstracts and teaching materials, October - November 2008) - http://eighteenthcenturyletters.blogspot.com (publicising a conference, May-September 2008) - Contributing Editor to http://www.swiftiana.com/stella (electronic edition of Swift‟s Journal to Stella, 2006/7) PUBLICATIONS - Co-editor, special issue of Eighteenth Century Life (forthcoming) Stephen Bernard, Claudine van Hensbergen and I are co-editing a special journal issue carrying the proceedings of a conference we organised entitled „“I remain, &c.”: Addressing the Eighteenth Century Letter‟. - „“There is no such man as Isaac Bickerstaff”: Partridge, Pittis and Jonathan Swift‟, Eighteenth Century Life (forthcoming) - „Whitening what before was Black: Making Satire out of Panegyric‟, English Review 18 (Philip Allen: April 2008), 35-37 CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & RESEARCH - Villanova University Symposium on Law, Literature, and Religion 1st October 2010 - English Seminar, Bristol University Symposium Paper: “To aim at one thing and shoot another”: Defoe and Sacheverell on Trial‟ 19th March 2009 - British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference - “I remain, &c.”: Addressing the Eighteenth Century Letter Seminar paper: „The Warming Pan Scandal (1687/8)‟ 8th January 2009 Conference panel: „Lives Unlived‟ (organised by Claudine van Hensbergen and I). Conference paper: „The Pre-natal Disinheritance of James Francis Edward Stuart by the British Press‟. 11th-12th Sept. 2008 (Funded by the English Faculty Board, University of Oxford) Claudine van Hensbergen, Stephen Bernard and I organised, devised, ran and contributed to this successful international conference. It attracted academics from the UK, US and Europe, including St Catherine‟s College | Manor Road | Oxford | OX1 3UJ Tel: 07515 403 887 | Email: john.mctague@ell.ox.ac.uk - “I remain, &c.”: Addressing the Eighteenth Century Letter keynote speaker Prof. Peter Sabor. The proceedings of this conference will be published in a special issue of Eighteenth Century Life, edited by the organisers. 12th Sept. 2008 - BSECS Graduate Conference, University of Winchester - Restoration to Reform Seminar, University of Oxford - „Reading: Images, Artefacts, Texts‟, Cardiff University - English Graduate Conference, English Faculty, University of Oxford - CUP Swift Edition – Research Assistant Assisted with collation data for new edition of Gulliver’s Travels. Conference paper: „Pigeon Holing Partridge: Making Sense of the Epistolary Traces of an Astrologer‟ 27th June 2008 12th May 2008 29th June 2007 8th June 2007 Nov. 2006 TEACHING - St. Anne‟s College, Oxford – Tutor - Mansfield College – Tutor Oct.-Dec. 2009 4 Tutorials with one Classic and English 2nd year undergraduate on „Epic‟ (Milton, Dryden, Pope) 8 tutorials with one US visiting student – „Romantic Poetry and Prose‟ Weekly classes (group of 12 1st year students) – „Introduction to Literary Studies‟ 2009 Oct.-Dec. 2009 2006 - Present - Mansfield College, Oxford – Class Tutor - English Faculty, Oxford – „Grub Street and its Critics‟ - St Anne‟s College, Oxford – Essay Writing Support I gave a lecture on „Grub Street, Religion and Politics‟, co-taught a class, and advised students for this syndicated special topic paper for 3rd year undergraduates, assessed by extended essay. 2009 - Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford – Class Tutor - University of Oxford – DLT Scheme In two 1.5 hour sessions I helped a student who was having severe difficulties planning essays and expressing her own ideas unencumbered by secondary texts. I have been informed that her work has since improved. 2008 - 2009 2008 - Present 3 classes a term (group of 10 1st year students) – „Introduction to Literary Studies‟ Graduate teacher training course, leading to accreditation as an „Associate Practitioner in Teaching in Higher Education‟ from the Higher Education Association. 2007 + 2009 2008 2008 - Oxford FE Access Initiative (Humanities Study Day) – Tutor - English Faculty, Oxford – „The Materiality of Texts‟ (lecture) - Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford – College Lectureship - Mansfield College – Visiting Student Programme – Tutor Tutorials for 2 US visiting students – „18th Century Literature‟ Classes and lectures for year 12 students, giving them experience of university-level English. 10 2nd year students for FHS paper 5 (Literature 1642-1740) via a mixture of tutorials and classes. Included setting and marking of collections, and a team-taught class for the 3rd year on Tate‟s Lear. 2008 2007 - 2008 2007 2006 – 2008 - English Faculty, Oxford – Sutton Trust Summer School – Tutor - OPUS Programme – Tutor ADMINISTRATION - Lady Margaret Hall – Admissions Interviews PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS: Special Prizes Prizes for University Exams St Catherine's College Graduate Scholarship (2007) ~ Mansfield College Essay Prize (2005) ~ Violet Vaughan Morgan Memorial Prize (University prize by special examination, 2004) Mason Lowance Prize (best finals performance in college, 2005) ~ Gibbs Prize (Moderations, 2003) ~ Mansfield College Scholarship (Moderations, 2003)