Dr. David Urban

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, Style, Studies in Philology, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Christianity and Literature, Religion and Literature, Renascence, Notes & Queries, Modern Philology, the Ben Jonson Journal, The Review of English Studies, The Year’s Work in English Studies, Calvin Theological Journal, Books & Culture, Religions, Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, Early Modern Literary Studies, Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, Essays in Criticism, Journal of Markets and Morality, Liberty Matters, Religion and Liberty, Christian Libertarian Review, Cithara, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Australian Slavonic and East European 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 The Rapidian. He is an associate editor for The Year’s Work in English Studies (OUP).  

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 Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings (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 articles for FEE 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.