Professor Robert DeMaria, Jr.

Robert DeMaria, Jr., is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, where he has taught and often served as chair of his department since 1975. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author of several books about Samuel Johnson and the editor (with the late Gwin Kolb) of "Johnson on the English Language," volume 18 in the Yale Edition of the "Works of Samuel Johnson," Most recently he has edited ...See more

Robert DeMaria, Jr., is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, where he has taught and often served as chair of his department since 1975. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author of several books about Samuel Johnson and the editor (with the late Gwin Kolb) of "Johnson on the English Language," volume 18 in the Yale Edition of the "Works of Samuel Johnson," Most recently he has edited (with Robert D. Brown) "Classical Literature and its Reception" (Blackwell, 2007). See less