Richard Dilworth Rust

Richard Dilworth Rust is a Professor Emeritus of English and an Adjunct Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was also a visiting professor at Indiana University, Brigham Young University, the University of Heidelberg, and Berne University. His Ph.D. (1966) is from the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Rust was a general editor of the thirty-volume Complete Works of Washington Irving and has published mainly on nineteenth-century American authors such as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Longfellow, Mark Twain, and Henry James as well as on the American Civil War and the Revolutionary War. He is the author of Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon and has published in the Ensign, New Era, BYU Studies, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Colloquium: Essays in Literature and Belief, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, and two FARMS collections, Warfare in the Book of Mormon and Rediscovering the Book of Mormon.