Sitter, John E(dward)

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SITTER, John E(dward)

SITTER, John E(dward). American, b. 1944. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, assistant professor, 1969-75, associate professor of English, 1975-80; Emory University, Atlanta, GA, professor of English, 1980-, chairman of department, 1982-85, 1994-, Dobbs professor, 1985-93, Charles Howard Candler Professor, 1993-; Visiting lecturer at University of Kent at Canterbury. Publications: The Poetry of Pope's "Dunciad," 1971; Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England, 1982; (ed.) Eighteenth-Century British Poets, 2 vols., 1990-91; Arguments of Augustan Wit, 1991; The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 2000. Address: Department of English, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]