David Alff

Academic Profile

Academic Background: PhD, University of Pennsylvania. MA, University of Chicago. BA, University of Virginia.

Research Interests: 17th and 18th-century Anglophone writing and performance, infrastructure, public works, projects and projection.

Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English.

Publications:

• The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
• Articles in ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Additional Contributions: Public talks at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Newberry Library.