John Pfordresher is a Professor of English interested in Nineteenth-Century literature; the relationship of painting to literature in the Nineteenthy century; Anglophone writers in Italy; and Catholic Studies.

Pfordresher earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and B.A. from Georgetown College.

Publications include: "Variorum Edition: Tennyson's Idylls of the King" (1973); "Matthew Arnold. The Prose," in "The Critical Heritage" Series (1979); miscellaneous essays on Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, D. G. Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelite art; position papers on the teaching of literature; essays on Anglophone writing on Italy; and "Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination" (2008).