Bruce Redford
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Professor of English and Art History, and University ProfessorBA, Brown University
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Teaching and Research Interests
- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature
- Literature and the visual arts
Selected Publications
- Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England (2008)
- Designing the Life of Johnson (2002)
- Venice and the Grand Tour (1996)
- The Letters of Samuel Johnson (five volumes, 1992–4)
- The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (1986)
Work in Progress
- A cultural history of the swagger portrait.
Honors, Grants, and Awards
- Fellow, Society of Antiquaries
- Past president of the Johnson Society
- Fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, All Souls College, Oxford, and The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences