Justin Sider

Bio
Justin A. Sider is an assistant professor of English at OU, specializing in Romantic and Victorian literature. His research focuses on nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, non-fiction, genre theory, aesthetics, and public sphere theory.

His first book, Parting Words: Victorian Poetry and Public Address (University of Virginia Press, 2018) considers how a singular fiction of address—the “valedictory” mode of the departing speaker—helped Victorian poets imagine forms of intimacy across the distances of an emergent mass culture. He has published articles on John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, the dramatic monologue, nineteenth-century balladry, and Victorian aesthetic theory. He is currently at work on a second project, Out of Time: Anachronism, Romance, and the Pleasures of Genre, on the relationship between feeling and generic form from the ballad revival to modernism.

For more information, please consult my C.V. (pdf)

Contact
Office: Cate 2, Room 301
Email: justin.sider@ou.edu

Research and Teaching Interests
Nineteenth-century literature (especially poetry and non-fiction), aestheticism and decadence, Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry, twentieth-century poetry, aesthetic theory, genre theory

Bookshelf
Parting Words: Victorian Poetry and Public Address (University of Virginia Press, 2018)