Ernest W. Sullivan

Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Ph.D., UCLA) is the Edward Singleton Diggs Endowed Chair in English emeritus at Virginia Tech.  Co-Founder and Past President of the John Donne Society, he served as Senior Textual Editor for all the textual volumes of the Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne and has authored/edited twenty-one books on Donne, Conrad, Cowley, and Textual Bibliography.  Additionally, he published fifty-eight academic articles on Donne, Conrad, Milton, Walton, Shakespeare, Byron, Steinbeck, and Wilbur Daniel Steele, as well as delivered 106 academic presentations in the US and abroad.  He has received multiple grants from the Huntington Library, William Andrews Clark Library, American Council of learned Societies, and National Endowment for the Humanities.  He also was a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.