David Nunnery
English Instructor
David Nunnery is an expatriated Southerner – a 10th-generation North Carolinian recently relocated from the wilds of Northeast Louisiana. His academic specialty is long-18th-century (ca. 1660-1800) British literature, especially Samuel Johnson and the Johnson circle, 18th-century literary and intellectual history, and cognitive approaches to literature. He is Field Editor for Historical, Social, and Economic Studies for the Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography (AMS Press).
He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and, in addition to the glories of the 18th century, has a special interest in the literary and historical study of the Bible.
When not squinting at a computer or buried in a pile of books, he provides tolerable company to his wife, Amy, a couple of huskies, and a handful of cats.
Publications
Nunnery, David. “Historical, Social, and Economic Studies.” Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, volume 36 n.s. for 2010. AMS Press, 2014 (also includes various reviews by Nunnery).
Nunnery, David. “’Hoot Him Back into the Common Road’: Singularity and the Human Comedy of the Lives of the Poets.” In Samuel Johnson: New Contexts for a New Century. Ed. Howard Weinbrot, Huntington Library Press, 2013.
Nunnery, David. “Historical, Social, and Economic Studies.” Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, volume 35 n.s. for 2009. AMS Press, 2013 (also includes various reviews by Nunnery).
Nunnery, David. “Informational Biography and the Lives of the Poets.” Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22, 2012.
Nunnery, David. “Historical, Social, and Economic Studies.” Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, volume 34 n.s. for 2008. AMS Press, 2012 (also includes various reviews by Nunnery).
Nunnery, David. Rev. of Peter Martin, Samuel Johnson: A Biography (Harvard, 2008) for The Historian, 2011.
Nunnery, David. “Historical, Social, and Economic Studies.” Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, volume 33 n.s. for 2007. AMS Press, 2011 (also includes various reviews by Nunnery).
Nunnery, David. Sociability and the ‘Inlets to Happiness’ in Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 2009.