Rate My Professor Paul Eggert

Eggert's research specializations encompass textual studies and scholarly editing in practice and theory, with a focus on D. H. Lawrence, Charles Harpur, and 19th-century Australian literature. Key publications include The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editions and Book History (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2009; winner of the Society for Textual Scholarship’s Finneran Award for the best book of editorial theory for 2009–10), Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils (Sydney University Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad (co-edited with Roger Osborne, Cambridge University Press, 2013), While the Billy Boils: The Original Newspaper Versions (co-edited with Elizabeth Webby, Sydney University Press, 2013), and Robbery Under Arms (co-edited with Elizabeth Webby, University of Queensland Press, 2006). He has produced several full-scale scholarly editions of works by D. H. Lawrence, Henry Kingsley, and Rolf Boldrewood since 1990, and The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle (co-edited with Chris Vening, Sydney University Press, forthcoming 2023). Eggert's work has advanced scholarly editing practices and digital humanities projects, including the Charles Harpur Critical Archive.