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Joseph Bristow is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught since early 1997. Prior to that time he was Senior External Research Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Between 1985 and 1996 he taught a number of British colleges and universities, including the University of York. Since joining UCLA Professor Bristow has made extensive use of the Oscar Wilde archive held at the Clark Library. Moreover, at the Clark he has arranged the programs of many conferences devoted to fin-de-siècle writing. His recent books include Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions (University of Toronto Press, 2003), The Fin-de-Siècle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s (Ohio University Press, 2005), Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (Ohio University Press, 2008), and The Wilde Archive: Histories, Traditions, Resources (University of Toronto Press, 2012). In addition, he has edited both the Oxford English Texts variorum edition and the World’s Classics edition of Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (2005 and 2006, respectively). Recent articles on aspects of Victorian poetry, the history of sexuality, and modern writing appear in Victorian Literature and Culture, The Journal of British Studies, Victorian Poetry, Modernism/Modernity, SEL, 1500-1900, Literature Compass, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Between 1997 and 2007 he edited the leading journal, Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of California Press). Since 2010 he has served as one of the joint editors of the Journal of Victorian Culture.  He is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. At present, he is completing a book-length study of Victorian poetry and desire, as well as completing further essays about Wilde’s career. Further information can be found at his UCLA English department webpage: www.english.ucla.edu/index.php/Faculty/bristow-joseph
Professor Bristow has directed two previous NEH summer seminars: “The Wilde Archive” (2007) and “The Decadent 1890s.” You can find out more about these seminars, as well as testimonials from scholars who participated in them here.

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