Ballot Archive

01 May 2025

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Peter Sabor

Academic degrees, honours etc.

1977 PhD University of London 1976 MA Cambridge University 1973 MA Queen’s University, Ontario 1972 BA Cambridge Univ.

Profession or occupation

Distinguished James McGill Professor of English Emeritus, McGill University, Montreal

Grounds for election

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Research Fellow, The Voltaire Foundation, Oxford; President, Burney Society (UK); Past-President, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; elected member of The Johnsonians and the International Association of University Professors of English; visiting fellowships at Harvard, Yale, and several Oxford and Cambridge colleges; plenary speaker at conferences and universities in North America, Europe, Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, India), Australia, New Zealand; editor and author of over thirty editions, essay collections, bibliographies, and monographs, primarily in 18th-century and early 19th-century English literature; currently general editor for three multi-volume series: The Novels of Frances Burney (Cambridge University Press), The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney (Oxford University Press); and The Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (Cambridge University Press).

Signatories

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