About the Editor

Mark Llewellyn is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth/twenty-first century literature and culture, he is the author of a number of works on George Moore and contemporary fiction. His doctoral research, which he completed in 2005, was on the subject of conceptions of authorship in seventeenth century poetry, but his most recent publications have all been in the field of nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Mark has have published several refereed journal articles (Philological Quarterly; Journal of Gender Studies; English Literature in Transition; Nineteenth Century Literature; Victorian Poetry; Women: a cultural review) and book chapters, in addition to guest co-editing four special journal issues (Women: a cultural review; Women’s Writing; Critical Survey; Feminist Review). He recently completed editing two volumes of a five volume edition of the short stories of George Moore with Ann Heilmann of the University of Hull (Pickering & Chatto, 2007) and a co-edited collection of essays entitled Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing (with Ann Heilmann; Palgrave, 2007). Mark is currently working on two co-edited essay collections; a co-edited anthology set; a co-authored encyclopaedia of Victorian writers and writing; and both single and co-authored monographs on topics within nineteenth and twentieth century literature.

Mark's research interests are largely focussed on the late nineteenth century, especially the writing of the fin de siècle, hence his work on Moore, and contemporary fiction, particularly women’s writing; the authors he has recently focussed on include Sarah Waters and Patricia Duncker. The themes he is most interested in are gender, sexuality and identity, often in conjunction with issues related to the literary canon and critical discourses. The relationships between contemporary writing and the academy, and the field of neo-Victorianism, including its incorporation of aspects of heritage studies, are two areas which he sees as the focus of his research in the coming years.

Mark is Director of the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Victorian Studies, Assistant Director of the Gladstone Centre for Victorian Studies in Wales and the North West of England, and an Executive Committee member of the British Association for Victorian Studies.

He can be contacted via: m.e.llewellyn@liverpool.ac.uk

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EDITED BY MARK LLEWELLYN

About the Editor