About the Author
Professor David V. Urban has written articles and reviews on subjects including Milton, Donne, Hawthorne, Melville, Fugard and Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, Bible, and pedagogy for journals such as Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, Studies in Philology, Journal of Markets and Morality, Review of English Studies, Christianity and Literature, Religion and Literature, Cithara, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Renascence, Notes & Queries, Calvin Theological Journal, Early Modern Literary Studies, Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture and in several book chapters. He has co-edited Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence (Duquesne UP), he completed and edited John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989-1999 (Duquesne UP), and his new book, Milton and the Parables of Jesus: The Self and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings (Penn State UP), which focuses on Milton’s use of and identification with several figures in Matthew’s parables, is forthcoming. He is working on a book project tentatively entitled C. S. Lewis, Miltonist, which explores both the influence of John Milton upon C. S. Lewis's writing and Lewis's enduring influence upon Milton scholarship.