Lance Bertelsen

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Biography

Lance Bertelsen works in eighteenth-century British literature and culture. He is the author of The Nonsense Club (Oxford, 1986) and Henry Fielding at Work (Palgrave, 2000). His essays appear in journals including ELH, ECS, MP, Art History and Southwest Review. His current work concerns an understudied Yorkshire family, the Kings, particularly their personal and political relationships with Edmund Burke, and the impact of one of them, Lieutenant James King, on the events and representations of Cook’s third voyage. Bertelsen also has research interests in World War II; his essay, "San Pietro and the 'Art' and War," won the 1990 Texas Institute of Letters O.Henry Award.  He has served four times on the faculty on Normandy Scholar Program and four times as director of the Oxford English Summer Program. He will direct the Oxford Program again in 2012.