Christopher D'Addario

Christopher D’Addario teaches and studies early modern British literature. His teaching interests include Shakespeare and early modern drama, Milton, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry and prose, transatlantic literature, and the literature of the city. He is the author of Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical (Cambridge, 2023) and Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature (Cambridge, 2007). He is also the co-editor with Matthew Augustine of Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell (Manchester, 2018). His essays have appeared in various journals, including Marvell Studies, Shakespeare Studies, ELH, Philological Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, and The Huntington Library Quarterly. They have also been included in numerous essay collections, including most recently, The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (Oxford, 2025) and Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 (Cambridge, 2018). 

He currently serves as the President of the Andrew Marvell Society.