Dennis Denisoff is a Canadian author, poet and scholar, and the Endowed McFarlin Chair of Literature and Film in the English Department at the

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. Denisoff was an early member of

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Biography

Education

He completed a PhD at

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and a postdoctoral fellowship at

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, and is currently McFarlin Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the

. His research specialties include gender/sexuality studies, decadence/aestheticism, eco-studies, and pagan eco-politics.

Career

He was an early member of

in the 1980s, writing poetry and prose at the intersection of queer identity and LANGUAGE poetics. A runner-up in the

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in 1989, Denisoff's debut novel ''Dog Years'' was published in 1991 by

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while he was a Ph.D. student at

. The novel, about a protagonist with

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, was a finalist for the Hugh Maclennan Prize in 1992 and the Norma Epstein Award. In 1994, Denisoff published a poetry collection, ''Tender Agencies'', and edited the anthology ''Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose''. His second novel, ''The Winter Gardeners'', was published in 2003, and in 2004 he published ''The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories''. His academic publications include '' Erín Moure and Her Works'' (1995), ''Aestheticism and Sexual Parody: 1840-1940'' (2001), and ''Sexual Visuality from Literature to film: 1850-1950'' (2004). He is the editor of ''The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture'' (2008), a special issue of ''Victorian Review'' on ''Natural Environments'' (2011), and another for ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' on ''Scales of Decadence'', as well as being a co-editor of ''Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence'' (1999) and the digital humanities project ''The Yellow Nineties Online'' (2015). He has also been a co-editor of the journals ''White Wall Review'', ''Nineteenth Century Studies'' and ''Feminist Modernist Literature''. He is the recipient of the President's Award from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association and the Sarwan Sohata Distinguished Scholar Award from Ryerson University, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Exeter, Cambridge University, and Queen Mary—University of London.

Personal life

He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his partner Morgan Holmes."Humane society members vote down leadership change". ''

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'', October 1, 2009.

Works

Fiction

*''Dog Years'' (1991) *''The Winter Gardeners'' (2003)

Poetry

*''Tender Agencies'' (1994)

Anthologies

*''Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose'' (1994) *''The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories'' (2004) *''Arthur Machen: Decadent and Occult Works'' (2019)

Academic

*''Erín Moure and Her Works'' (1995) *''Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence'' (co-edited with Liz Constable and Matt Potolsky, 1999) *''Aestheticism and Sexual Parody: 1840-1940'' (2001) *''Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film: 1850-1950'' (2004) *''The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture'' (2008) *''Natural Environments'' guest edited special issue of ''Victorian Review'' *''The Yellow Nineties Online'' (co-edited with Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2015) *''The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature'' (co-edited with Talia Schaffer, 2020) *''Scales of Decadence'' guest edited special issue of ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' (2021)

References

External links

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