19th Century

Education

• PhD in English Literature, University of Virginia, 1994
• MA in English Literature, University of Southern California, 1988
• BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature, Oxford University, 1984

Research Interests

• Oscar Wilde
• Poetry of the 1890s
• Pre-Raphaelite Art and Poetry
• The Aesthetic and Decadent movements
• Victorian art and design
• Victorian print culture
• Victorian illustration and bookmaking
• Editorial theory

Select Publications

• The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection (Harvard Univ. Press, 2022)
• The Invention of Oscar Wilde (Reaktion Books, 2021)
• The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde (Harvard University Press, 2018)
• Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years (2017)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition (Harvard University Press, 2011)

Courses

• ENGL 301: Introduction to Literary Studies
• ENGL 337: Victorian Poetry
• ENGL 499: Oscar Wilde and His Circle
• ENGL 391/491: Love and Death in Victorian Fiction
• ENGL 614 and MATX 690: Art for Art’s Sake: Fin de Siècle Literature and Art

Awards

• The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition was named a Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book and an Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book, by the American Library Association, at the Stonewall Book Awards in 2012
• Elske v. P. Smith Distinguished Lecturer, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010–11
• Fellowships at Harry Ransom Center, Texas (2016), Yale Center for British Art (2006), and the National Humanities Center (2001/02)
• Winner, Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize (2001), given biennially by the Society for Textual Scholarship.

Links

• Harvard University Press
• Oscar Wilde would be a New Yorker critic or late-night TV host if he were alive today, says editor of new collection of Wilde’s writings, VCU News, 12/13/2022