Here’s a list of writings and presentations I’ve done about Sam
- January 2021: “The Day Cometh: Samuel Johnson for the General Reader,” in The Johnson Society Transactions 2020
- November 24, 2020: “My Sam Johnson: Writing a Biography for the General Reader,” Botanica Speakers Series
- January 31, 2020: Guest posting, “Johnson’s Dense Style,” on the blog of the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
- January 10, 2020: Presentation at the conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University (program here): “My Sam Johnson: Writing a Biography for a General Readership” (PDF of slides)
- July 3, 2019-present: My Sam Johnson blog
- [Note: 3.5-year hiatus while I co-wrote this other book]
- April 8, 2016: “My Sam Johnson: Writing a Biography for a Popular Readership,” presentation to the Dept. of English at Carleton University
- February 14, 2016: Interview on Oscar Martens’s Media Whore blog: “Wayne Jones Wants You to Know Samuel Johnson“
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