Dennis Denisoff

Denis Denisoff
Occupation novelist, poet, academic
Nationality Canadian

Dennis Denisoff is a Canadian writer and academic. A professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, his research specialties include Victorian literature and gender and sexuality studies.

He was an early member of The Kootenay School of Writing in the 1980s.

A runner-up in the Three-Day Novel Contest in 1989,[1] Denisoff's debut novel Dog Years was published in 1991 by Arsenal Pulp Press while he was a Ph.D. student at McGill University.[2] The novel, about a protagonist with HIV/AIDS, was a finalist for the Hugh Maclennan Prize in 1992.[3]

In 1994, Denisoff published a poetry collection, Tender Agencies,[4] and was editor of the anthology Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose.[5] His second novel, The Winter Gardeners, was published in 2003, and in 2004 he was editor of The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories.

His academic publications have included Erin Mouré and Her Works (1995), a critical analysis of the poetry of Erin Mouré; Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1999); Aestheticism and Sexual Parody (2001); Sexual Visuality from Literature to film: 1850-1950 (2004); The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (2008) and The Yellow Nineties Online (2012). He has also been a co-editor of the literary journals White Wall Review and Nineteenth Century Studies.

He lives in Toronto with his partner Morgan Holmes.[6]

Works

Fiction

Poetry

Anthologies

Academic

References

  1. "Guests made novel tough to write". Vancouver Sun, November 4, 1989. p. D12
  2. "Taking a hard look at AIDS' moral dilemmas". Vancouver Sun, November 9, 1991.
  3. "QSPELL Book Awards set for tonight at the Ritz". The Gazette, November 27, 1992.
  4. "Inventive poetry with interactive touches". The Globe and Mail, January 7, 1995.
  5. "Embracing tender beauty, awful violence". Edmonton Journal, July 24, 1994.
  6. "Humane society members vote down leadership change". The Globe and Mail, October 1, 2009.

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