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By Phil Williams
pwilliam@franklin.uga.edu
Doug Anderson, professor of English, has been named to the Sterling-Goodman Professorship.
The professorship was set up through a gift from Helen Spencer Lanier, who endowed the Helen Spencer Lanier Chair in the department of English. The Sterling-Goodman Professorship was created by transferring a portion of the accumulated income from the Lanier Chair into a separate fund. The newer chair honors Helen Lanier’s daughters, Joyce Lanier Sterling and Carol Lanier Goodman.
Anderson was named a Guggen-heim Fellow earlier this summer and is away at present conducting research for a book. He was recommended for the position by a committee of senior professors in the humanities.
Anderson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and received his master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Virginia. He began his career at Vassar College, where he taught from 1980 to 1988. He spent a year at the University of Oregon and a year at the University of Virginia before coming to UGA as an assistant professor in 1990. Anderson became an associate professor in 1992 and a full professor in 1997.
He works chiefly on early American literature and is the author of two books: A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). He has also published essays on Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, as well as on Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and James Fenimore Cooper.
William Bradford, the subject of Anderson’s book-in-progress, was an important writer in early colonial America. After leaving England, he spent 12 years in the Netherlands, and Anderson’s book will, among other things, examine Dutch influence on early life in America.
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