Jeff A. Loveland

Associate Professor and Department Head
726 Old Chemistry Building
513-556-1843
jeff.loveland@uc.edu

Education

PhD, Duke University, 1994 (Romance Studies).

BA, Michigan State University, 1987 (Mathematics).

Research Interests

I do research on eighteenth-century encyclopedias and natural history.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland. "Bishop John Geddes, the First Catholic Contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica." British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (2007): 73-88.

Jeff Loveland. "Unifying Knowledge and Dividing Disciplines: The Development of Treatises in the Encyclopaedia Britannica." Book History 9 (2006): 57-87.

Jeff Loveland. "Another Daubenton, Another Histoire naturelle." Journal of the History of Biology 39 (2006): 457-91.

Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland. "Diderot et Laurent Durand, son éditeur principal." Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie 39 (2005): 29-40.

Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland. "The Elusive Laurent Durand, a Leading Publisher of the French Enlightenment." SVEC 12 (2005): 223-58.

Jeff Loveland. "Georges-Louis LeClerc de Buffon's Histoire naturelle in English, 1775-1815." Archives of Natural History 31 (2004): 214-35.

Jeff Loveland. "Panckoucke and the Circle-Squarers." Eighteenth-Century Studies 37 (2004): 215-36.

Jeff Loveland. "Daubenton's Lions: From Buffon's Shadow to the French Revolution." New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 1 (2004): 29-47.

Jeff Loveland. "Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton and the Encyclopédie." SVEC 12 (2003): 173-219.

Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland. "Antoine-Claude Briasson et l'Encyclopédie." Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie 35 (2003): 131-42.

Jeff Loveland. "Buffon, the Certainty of Sunrise, and the Probabilistic Reductio ad Absurdum." Archive for History of Exact Sciences 55 (2001): 465-77.

Jeff Loveland. "Mathematics and Practice: Diderot and D'Alembert Argue Probability." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 25 (1996): 99-116.

Books

Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland, eds. The Early Britannica (1768-1803): The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009.

Jeff Loveland. Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001.

Book Chapters

Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland. "William Smellie's Edition (1768-1771): A Modest Start." The Early Britannica (1768-1803): The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia. Ed. Kafker and Loveland. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. 10-67.

Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland, and Dennis A. Trinkle. "James Tytler's Edition (1777-1784): A Vast Expansion and Improvement." The Early Britannica (1768-1803): The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia. Ed. Kafker and Loveland. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. 68-155.

Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, William E. Morris, Marion A. Brown, and Jeff Loveland. "Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, and Possibly James Tytler's Edition (1788-1797): The Attainment of Recognition and Eminence." The Early Britannica (1768-1803): The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia. Ed. Kafker and Loveland. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. 156-251.

Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, and Jeff Loveland. "George Gleig's Supplement to the Third Edition (1801-1803): Learned and Combative." The Early Britannica (1768-1803): The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia. Ed. Kafker and Loveland. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. 252-97.

Jeff Loveland. "Two Partial English-Language Translations of the Encyclopédie: The Encyclopedias of John Barrow and Temple Henry Croker." British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth-Century. Ed. Kathleen Hardesty Doig and Dorothy Medlin. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 168-87.

Jeff Loveland. "Guéneau de Montbeillard, the Collection académique and the Great Lisbon Earthquake." The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Representations and Reactions. Ed. Theodore E. D. Braun and John B. Radner. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005. 191-207.

Jeff Loveland. "French Thought in William Smellie's Natural History: A Scottish Reception of Buffon and Condillac." Scotland and France in the Enlightenment. Ed. Deidre Dawson and Pierre Morère. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004. 192-220.