David Venturo
Professor
David Venturo (A. B., Rutgers University; A. M., Ph. D., Harvard University) is author of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1999) and editor of The School of the Eucharist. With a Preface Concerning the Testimony of Miracles (forthcoming, AMS Press), and has written extensively on British literature and culture, 1640-1830. He is field editor in philosophy, science, and religion for ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, co-editor of The Scriblerian, and is writing a book, Fall'n on Evil Days: Alienation and Protest in Milton, Dryden, and Swift. His teaching interests include the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century (1640-1830), Shakespeare, poetry and poetics, and the reception of classical literature in the long eighteenth century. Presently, he is especially interested in the transitions from Early Modern to Augustan and from Augustan to Romantic literature and culture. He teaches Historicizing the Restoration; Shakespeare; British Literature, 1700 to 1820; British Romanticism; and a First Seminar on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and their appropriation by later poets. On campus, Venturo edits TCNJ Journal of Student Scholarship.
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