Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, and Senior Fellow in English Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has reviewed widely on literary topics, done many BBC radio talks on literary and musicological issues, lectured a lot around the world on literary and literary-historical issues, has been a Visiting Professor of Literature in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Germany, and judged many literary prizes, including The Man-Booker Prize (twice!). His books include Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975), British Writers of the Thirties (1988), In the Reading Gaol: (Post)modernity, Texts, and History (1994), Reading After Theory (2002), and Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems, Poetics (2011). His editions include The Penguin Book of Spanish War Verse (1980), Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War (1986), and The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (2000).
