Greg Clingham

Clingham edited four books series for Bucknell: Bucknell Studies in 18th-Century Literature and Culture (1998-2010), Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1660-1860 (2010-18), the Bucknell Review (2002–04), and Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures (2003–18).

From 1996 to 2018, Greg Clingham was the director and chief acquiring editor for Bucknell University Press (founded 1968), establishing business partnerships with Rowman & Littlefield (2010–18) and Rutgers University Press (2018-), and publishing 700 scholarly titles in the humanities. Under Clingham's editorship, Bucknell Press became the leading press for eighteenth-century studies (235 titles), and well known for Iberian studies and Latin American studies.

From 1990 to 1996, he was American editor of the journal Translation & Literature; since 2005 he has been on the editorial board of the journal Eighteenth-Century Life; and in 2019 he became the editor of the series, Eighteenth-Century Moments with Clemson University Press.

He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and raised and educated in London and at the University of Cambridge. A scholar of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, Clingham took a First in the English Tripos (1978) and obtained his MA (1982) and his PhD at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1986). After teaching at Tonbridge School, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge and Downing College, Cambridge (1979–86), he moved to the US, teaching at Fordham University (1986–93), New York University (1988, 1991), and Bucknell University (1993-2018).

Greg Clingham (born 9 March 1953) is a British literary scholar and publisher. He was Professor of English (2001–18) at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, where he held the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Chair in the Humanities (1996–99) and the John P. Crozer Chair of English Literature (2011–16). He was for twenty-three years, the director of Bucknell University Press (1996-2018).