Patricia B. Craddock is an American author and professor of English , writer of works on the historian Edward Gibbon , the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Young Edward Gibbon: Gentleman of Letters (Johns Hopkins , 1982) and Edward Gibbon: "Luminous" Historian (Johns Hopkins, 1989).
Craddock was formerly chair of the Department of English at Boston University . She came to the University of Florida as Professor and Chair of English Department in 1988 and served as chair of the department until 1994. She was also named a Distinguished Professor. Craddock has also taught at the University of Montevallo , Connecticut College , and Goucher College , and has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She is the 1997–98 Catherine and Herbert Yardley Professor at the University of Florida. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities senior fellowships, an American Council of Learned Societies grant-in-aid, and a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey .
Craddock was published two of the annual volumes of the journal Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture as editor. She also served on the editorial boards of South Atlantic Review The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (1992–present), and the Georgia Smollett edition (1997–present) and is English Book Review editor of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography .
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