Peter Shillingsburg
Peter Shillingsburg has taught at Mississippi State University where he was a William L. Giles Professor, at the University of North Texas, at De Montfort University where he was Director of the Center for Textual Scholarship, at the Defense Force Academy campus of The University of New South Wales, and at Loyola University Chicago where he held the Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He was the general and textual editor of the Works of W. M. Thackeray (Garland and Michigan) and is author of two books on Thackeray (Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life) and three books on textual studies, including From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. He has served as Coordinator, Committee Member, and Chairman of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions and as President of the Society for Textual Scholarship.