John Sitter
Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature
Specialty: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Degrees: B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
John Sitter is a specialist in eighteenth-century poetry and a teacher of poetry and satire from the Renaissance to the present. He is the author of Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England, Arguments of Augustan Wit, and The Poetry of Pope's "Dunciad.” His second book, Literary Loneliness, won the Louis Gottschalk Prize awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry and two volumes of The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Recent work includes an essay on William Collins and the chapter on poetry from 1740 to 1790 for the revisedCambridge History of English Literature. He is currently completing The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Other current research interests include the question of poetry in education from the seventeenth century to the present.
Selected Publications
- The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Fall, 2011)
- “Eighteenth-Century Ecological Poetry and Ecotheology,” Religion and Literature, 40.1 (Spring, 2008)
- “Pope’s Versification and Voice,” inThe Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope, ed. Pat Rogers, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 37-48.
- Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Arguments of Augustan Wit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Editor, Eighteenth-Century British Poets. 2 vols. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990-91.
- Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
- The Poetry of Pope’s “Dunciad.” Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971.
Contact Information
181 Decio Faculty Hall / 356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
(574) 631-7185 / (574) 631-4702
John.Sitter.1@nd.edu
Postal address
Department of English
356 O’Shaughnessy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
