Ronald Paulson

- BA Yale University, 1952

- Ph.D. Yale University, 1958

- Instructor, University of Illinois, 1958-59

- Assistant Professor, 1959-62

- Associate Professor, 1962-63

- Professor, Rice University, 1963-67

- Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1967-75 (Chairman, English Department, 1968-75; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, 1973-75)

- Professor, Yale University, 1975-84 (Thomas E. Donnelley Professor, 1980-84; Director of Graduate Studies, English Department 1976-83; Director, British Studies Program, 1976-84)

- Member of Academic and Advisory Committees and Governing Board of the Yale Center for British Art[?] and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art[?] in London, 1975-84

- Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1984- (Chairman, English Department, 1985-91; Mayer Professor of the Humanities, 1985-)

- Member, editorial board, ELH[?], (1967-)

- Senior Ed., ELH (1985-); Studies in English Literature[?] (1963-); PMLA (1973-76); Eighteenth-Century Studies[?] (1966-74); Johns Hopkins University Press (1973-75; 1985-89)

Books:

- Theme and Structure in Swift's 'Tale of a Tub (1960)

- Hogarth's Graphic Works (1965)

- The Fictions of Satire (1967)

- Satire and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (1967)

- Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times (1971)

- Rowlandson: A New Interpretation (1972)

- Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century (1975)

- The Art of Hogarth (1975)

- Popular and Polite Art in the Age of Hogarth and Fielding (1979)

- Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable (1982)

- Representations of Revolution (1789-1820) (1983)

- Book and Painting: Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible (1983)

- Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820 (1989)

- Hogarth's Graphic Works (rewritten and reset) (1989)

- Figure & Abstraction in Contemporary Painting (1990)

- Hogarth, Vols. 1-3 (1991-93)

- The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (1997)

- Ed., Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty (1997)

- Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (1998)

- The Life of Henry Fielding (2000)