Joseph Bristow (professor)

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Joseph Bristow is a professor of English literature at UCLA; he specializes in Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century British Literature, and sexuality studies. He is most known for his books on the history of sexuality, Victorian poetry, and his work as a critic and editor of late Victorian literary texts.

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[edit] Education

Bristow received his BA from the University of London, his MA from University of Stirling, and his PhD in English from University of Southampton.

[edit] Scholarship

His most important books of criticism include Sexuality (1997), Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885 (1997), Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World (1991) and Robert Browning: New Readings (1991). He has also served as editor on The Fin-de-Siècle Poem (2005), Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004), Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2000), among other edited collections.

[edit] Awards

Professor Bristow's research has been supported by several fellowships from institutions such as the British Academy, the Wingate Foundation, St John's College, Oxford, and the Stanford Humanities Center.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Joseph Bristow, Professor at www.english.ucla.edu. Retrieved on 18 July 2007.