Robert Folkenflik, Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of English (Ph. D., Cornell), came to UCI in 1975 after teaching at the University of Rochester. He publishes mainly on eighteenth-century narrative (biography, autobiography, the novel), on Book History, and on the relations of literature and art (portraiture of authors, book illustrations, aesthetics). He has published several books including editions of Swift, Sterne, and Smollett, as well as numerous articles. He has held Fellowships from the British Academy, NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio), the Huntington Library, the Mellon Centre for British Art, ACLS. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz and Claremont Graduate University, Visiting Scholar at the University of Barcelona, and was also an Honorary Fellow at University College, University of London. He founded and served as General Editor of Irvine Studies in the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 1986-91; Stanford University Press, 1992-98). With Murray Krieger, he wrote the grant proposal that established the University of California Humanities Research Institute at UCI in 1986.