John Dussinger
John Dussinger is Professor of English at the University of
Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the author or editor of several
books and many articles and reviews on eighteenth-century and
early nineteenth-century authors, ranging from Swift,
Shaftesbury, and Richardson, to Sterne, Goldsmith, Johnson,
Hester Piozzi, Mary Shelley, and Austen. He has written the
article on Richardson for the New Dictionary of National
Biography and has under consideration a long article on
Richardson's anonymous contributions to the journals that he
printed. Currently, he is working together with Tom Keymer, Peter
Sabor, and Albert Rivero on the first scholarly edition of
Richardson's complete correspondence.