Bruce Redford
 University Professor; Professor of Art History and English, College of Arts and Sciences
B.A., Brown University; B.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., Princeton University.
Professor Redford is a literary historian, editor, and critic, with a strong interest in classical studies and the visual arts. He has published essays on topics as diverse as medieval hagiography, rococo portraiture, and the religious poetry of W.H. Auden. During the past decade and a half, his scholarship has centered on eighteenth-century British culture. The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (1986) was followed by The Letters of Samuel Johnson (five volumes, 1992-94), Venice and the Grand Tour (1996), and the second volume of Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript (1998). In 2001/2002 he delivered the Lyell Lectures in bibliography at Oxford University; the lectures have been published as Designing the "Life of Johnson" (2002). A past president of the Johnson Society, he has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, All Souls College, Oxford, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center. In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5 PM, Thursday 2-3 PM
Telephone: 617-358-1779
Email: bredford@bu.edu
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