Lisa Berglund, Ph.D.

Lisa Berglund joined the Buffalo State English Department in 2001. She has published numerous articles on Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell, eighteenth-century studies, book history, and the history of lexicography. Her latest publication is “Will dictionaries exist in 2075? A panel discussion.” Co-authored with Michael Hancher, Wendalyn Nichols, Kory Stamper, Joseph Farquharson, and Orión Montoya. (Dictionaries Vol. 47, no. 1, 2026, pp. 49-72). She is presently working on a critical study of Piozzi’s marginalia as well as an analysis of reader annotations in Federalist Era dictionaries. She teaches courses in Shakespeare, Milton, eighteenth-century studies, the history of the printed book, and lexicography.

In 2013 Dr. Berglund received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service and in 2020 she received the Buffalo State President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advising. Currently, Dr. Berglund is a member of the Executive Committee of the Delegates to the American Council of Learned Societies, a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English (a part of MLA), and president of the Dictionary Society of North America. She co-chaired the 2025 DSNA biennial meeting. She served as Executive Director of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2017-2021), Executive Director of DSNA (2007-2013), Buffalo State Interim Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities (2014-2015), and chair of the Buffalo State English Department (2013-2014, 2015-2017, and 2020-2024), as well as president of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, board member of the East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and president of the Western New York Phi Beta Kappa Association.

Dr. Berglund is president of the board of directors of Opera-Lytes, a Buffalo-based community theater group, as well as the company’s principal stage director, and she also serves on the board of the Opera Foundation of Buffalo.