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Dr. David Urban

Professor of English, Collegiate Scholars program advisor
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Honors at ÃÛÌÒapp

Biography

Professor David V. Urban has written articles and reviews on subjects including Milton, Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis, Chekhov, Ibsen, Austen, Addison, Donne, Hawthorne, Melville, Fugard, Tolstoy, Hopkins, Bible, ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric, pedagogy, and contemporary novelist Peter Orner for journals such as Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation, Style, Studies in Philology, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Christianity and Literature, Religion and Literature, Renascence, Notes & Queries, , t³ó±ð Ben Jonson Journal, The Review of English Studies, The Year’s Work in English Studies, ÃÛÌÒapp Theological Journal, , , , Early Modern Literary Studies, , Essays in Criticism, Journal of Markets and Morality, , , , Cithara, ANQ, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, , and in several book chapters as well as multiple entries in the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, The Milton Encyclopedia, and the Dictionary of Theological Interpretation of the Bible. He formerly served as a reporter and editor for . He is an associate editor for The Year’s Work in English Studies (°¿±«±Ê).

He has authored Milton and the Parables of Jesus: The Self and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings (Penn State UP, December 2018), and he has edited  (MDPI, 2020). He also co-edited Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence (Duquesne UP, 2010) and co-compiled and co-edited John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989-1999 (Duquesne UP, 2011).   He is currently working on two related book projects that explore both the influence of John Milton upon C. S. Lewis's writing and Lewis's enduring influence upon Milton scholarship.

He is a member of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Faculty Network and has written  on Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis, and freedom of speech. He is also a Faculty Associate with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He and his wife, Adrienne, have two sons.  

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Education

Ph.D., English. University of Illinois at Chicago. 2001, Program: Literature, Preliminary Exams: Early Modern British Literature, 1500-1700; American Literature, Colonial through Civil War; History of Literary Theory, Classical through 1900; Bible as Literature.

M.Div. Divinity School, Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. 1998, Summa cum Laude.

M.A., English. University of Illinois at Chicago. 1994, M.A. Qualifying Paper, "The Developing Language of Immortality in Wordsworth’s Poetry."

B.A., English. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 1990, Departmental Honors. Phi Beta Kappa. Senior Honors Thesis, “Pastoral Images of Death and Rebirth in Milton and Herbert’s Poetry.†

Academic Interests

  • Renaissance and seventeenth-century British literature (especially Milton and Shakespeare) 
  • C. S. Lewis
  • American literature through the Civil War 
  • Modern Drama 
  • Bible as literature 

Professional Associations

  • Milton Society of America
  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Foundation for Economic Education

Awards

  • Sabbatical, ÃÛÌÒapp (2023-24; 12 hours release total)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, spring semester 2022 (one course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, fall semester 2020 (one course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Center for Christian Scholarship (2019; small grant for book distribution)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, fall semester 2019 (one course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, spring semester 2018 (one course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Center for Christian Scholarship (2017; small grant for book indexing)
  • Sabbatical, ÃÛÌÒapp College (2016-17; four course release total)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, spring semester 2015 (one course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, spring semester 2013 (two course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Dean's Interim Leave, interim 2013 (one course release)
  • ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, spring semester 2012 (two course release)
  • Sabbatical, ÃÛÌÒapp College (2009-10; four course release total)
  • Summer ÃÛÌÒapp Research Fellowship, ÃÛÌÒapp College (summer 2005, 2006, 2007)
  • Diekema Fellow, ÃÛÌÒapp College (fall semester, 2004 [one course release]; fall semester, 2006, [one course release]; spring semester, 2007 [one course release]; fall semester, 2009 [one course release]; spring semester [one course release])
  • Dissertation Research Award, University of Illinois at Chicago (fall semester, 2000)

Community Service Award 

  • Seven Who Care Award, Oklahoma Baptist University, 2003

Publications

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Religions in Shakespeare's Writings

John Milton- An Annotated

John Milton

Milton and the Parables of Jesus book cover

Milton and the Parables of Jesus

Visionary Milton

Visionary Milton

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Metagenre in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained:

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