Jack Lynch specializes in the English literature of the
eighteenth century. He is the author of a number of books and articles, both scholarly and popular, including The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright Into the Bard, and a scholarly book on forgery, fakery, and fraud, Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain. His most recent book is The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English from
Shakespeare to South Park.

Lynch's CV can be viewed at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/CV.pdf