Carretta, Vincent (Albert)

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CARRETTA, Vincent (Albert)

CARRETTA, Vincent (Albert). American, b. 1945. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, instructor in English, 1977; University of Maryland at College Park, assistant professor, 1978-83, associate professor, 1983-90, professor of English, 1990-. Visiting lecturer at University of Iowa, 1977; visiting fellow at Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978-79. Publications: "The Snarling Muse": Verbal and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill, 1983; George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron, 1990. EDITOR, AUTHOR OF INTRO. & NOTES: The Satires of Mr. (Paul) Whitehead, 1984; Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, 1995; Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Address: Department of English, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.