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 Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center. Between 1985 and 1996 he taught a number of British colleges and universities, including the Universities 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 nine 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), and Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (Ohio University Press, 2008)— www.ohioswallow.com/book/Oscar+Wilde+and+Modern+Culture. 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, Modernism/Modernity, Victorian Poetry, 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). He is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. During 2009-10 he will direct the year-long Mellon-funded Sawyer seminar, “Homosexualities, from Antiquity to the Present,” at UCLA. At present, he is completing a book-length study of Victorian poetry and desire, researching a literary history of the 1875-1914 period, and editing (with Philip E. Smith) Wilde’s unpublished college writings.