''Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one'' A. J. Leibling.

I have worked at Acadia University since 2001, as the c16th and c17th poetry and prose specialist in the Department of English and Theatre.

Academic positions to date:

- July 1, 2010: Promoted to full Professor
- April, 2008: Appointed Director, Acadia Digital Media Observatory
- July 1, 2007: Promoted to associate Professor
- July 1, 2006: Granted Tenure
- July 1, 2001: Hired as Assistant Professor, Acadia University
- May - June, 2001: Scholar-in-Residence, Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution
- July 1, 2000 - July 1, 2001: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
- July 1, 2000 - July 1, 2001: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
- August, 1994 - June 30, 2000: PhD student and English teacher, Penn State University, University Park, PA;
- January - May, 1996: Research Fellow, Department of Modern History, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland

'If you look at the history of higher education, the university was controlled by, and had to fight for intellectual purity against, the church; then it had to fight against the crown; and now it's against the corporation. There has always been a tension between the university and the funding source that could control the thought. We always have to say that the earth goes around the sun even if it doesn't comport with what the Holy Father says.' Gordon Davies, qtd. in David Kirp's Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line, 144 - 5.

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Office: BAC 431
Office phone: 585-1345
Email: richard.cunningham[at]acadiau.ca