Ronald Paulson (*May 27, 1930, Bottineau, N.D.), American professor of English, specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and the leading modern expert on William Hogarth.
- 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)
- 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)
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