Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Chadler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 

He was Editor, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1976-1987; Chair, Department of Philosophy, Emory University, 1982-1988; Visiting Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford, 1988. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters  from Knox College, 1990, and was Visiting Scholar, University of Rome, "La Sapienza," 1996.

He was Director of "Barbarism, Memory, and Rhetoric: Giambattista Vico's New Science," a ten-week seminar held at The Folger Institute of the Folger Library in Washington, D.C., 1994. 

Four lectures he delivered in Naples, on "Vico in the Anglo-Saxon World," at the Istituto per gli Studi Filosofici, were published as Vico nel mondo anglosassone (La Città del Sole, 1995).

Among his publications are:
 

• Symbol, Myth and Culture: Essays and Lecturers of Ernst Cassirer 1935-1945 (Yale University Press, 1981)
• Vico and Joyce, ed. (State University of New York Press, 1987).
• Vico's Philosophy of Imagination (Cornell University Press, 1981, reissued 1991).
• Hegel's Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit (State University of New York Press, 1985).
• The New Art of Autobiography: An Essay on the 'Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself' (Oxford University Press, 1991).
• The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms, volume 4 of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, by Ernst Cassirer.  Co-edited with John Michael Krois (Yale University Press, 1996).
• Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale University Press, 1997). 
• The Art of Humane Education (Cornell University Press, 2002)
• Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico's New Science and Finnegans Wake (Yale University Press, 2003)