Bruce Redford
bredford@bu.edu
Professor of English and Art History, and University Professor. B.A., Brown; B.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., Princeton 

Teaching and Research Interests:17th- and 18th-century literature; literature and the visual arts

Selected Publications: Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteeenth-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