Richard Dilworth Rust is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of The Complete Works of Washington Irving, and has published on Cooper, Irving, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, O'Neill, and the Civil War. Rust has pioneered reading the Book of Mormon as literature.
Rust is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.