Dino Franco Felluga

Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1995

Biography

Dino Franco Felluga completed his doctorate at the U of California, Santa Barbara in 1995, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at the U of Calgary Institute for the Humanities, the second in the English Department at Stanford U. His articles have appeared in SEL: Studies in English Literature, Victorian Studies, Criticism, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, Victorian Periodicals Review, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, Victoriographies, European Romantic Review, Critical Quarterly, 19, the Journal of Victorian Culture, the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry, and two Cambridge UP essay collections: The Cambridge Companion to the Poem (2024) and Literature in Transition: The 1870s (2024). His first book, The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius, was published by SUNY Press in 2005. It was followed by the 4-volume, million-word Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature and Critical Theory: The Key Concepts. His most recent publication, co-authored with Emily Allen, was published by Oxford UP: Novel-Poetry: The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form (2024). He is also the general editor of BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History and COVE: Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education. Prof. Felluga also created the North American Victorian Studies Association and served as NAVSA’s president for the first 11 years of the organization.