• B.A., London,1980
• MLitt, Stirling, 1982
• Ph.D., Southampton, 1985

Interests

British Writing and Culture,1830-present; Theories and Histories of Sexuality; Victorian drama, fiction, and poetry.

Selected Works

• Editor, The Fin-de-Siècle Poem, (forthcoming, Ohio University Press 2005)
• Editor, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oxford English Texts (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• Joint ed. (with Thomas Wortham) Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of California Press)
• Ed. Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
• Ed. The Cambridge Companion ot Victorian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Sexuality, New Critical Idiom Series (Routledge, 1997)
• Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885 (Columbia University Press, 1997)
• Joint ed. (with Isobel Armstrong), Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, Robert Browning: New Readings (St Martin's Press, 1991)

Additional Information

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. During 1998-99, while holding the Clark Professorship at UCLA, he organized a series of conferences titled "Oscar Wilde and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle." At present he is at work on two full-length manuscripts: "The Sex of Victorian Poetry" (for Cambridge UP) and "The New Oxford History of English Literature, Volume 9: 1875-1914" (Oxford UP).

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