BA / MA Oxford, PhD London
John Drew taught for two years as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Leon, Spain, before returning to the UK to work for the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He came to Buckingham in 1998. Recent publications include extensive work on the Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens , the co-editing of Volume 4 of the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism, and an edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray , for Wordsworth Classics. John has recently published an acclaimed full-length study of Dickens the Journalist for Palgrave-Macmillan (2003), the first of its kind. He edited a short collection of Dickens’s recently discovered ‘blacking poems’ (The Pride of Mankind, Hedge Sparrow Press, 2006) and working on a major project Dickens Journals Online to digitise and make available online over 40 volumes of Household Words and All the Year Round, the phenomenally popular Victorian magazines edited by Dickens between 1850 and 1870.
Email: english@buckingham.ac.uk or djo@buckingham.ac.uk
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