Virginia J. Tufte

Expert in gastrointestinal & liver diseases
  • Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (310) 657-5380

Expertise

  • English Renaissance poetry
  • John Milton and Paradise Lost
  • illustrators of Paradise Lost
  • English women poets of the 17th century
  • writing life histories

Additional Information

    • Author of The Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and Its

 

    • Development in England (1970); Grammar as Style (1971); as well

 

    • as numerous essays (in Milton volumes) on visual representations of

 

    • Paradise Lost (1986, 1987, 1988, 1999, 2000)

 

    • Author-producer of Reaching for Paradise: The Life and Art of Carlotta

 

    • Petrina, a 55-minute video-biography for public television (1993)

 

    • Co-author of Exercises in Creativity (1971) and Remembered Lives: The

 

    • Work of Ritual, Storytelling and Growing Older (1992)

 

    • Editor of High Wedlock Then Be Honoured, an Anthology of Wedding

 

    • Poems (1970)

 

    Co-editor of Changing Images of the Family (1979)