Sean O'Toole

I am a professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature, queer studies, and college writing. A graduate of Georgetown University (B.A.) and the City University of New York Graduate Center (Ph.D.), I was a post-doctoral lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program before joining the Baruch faculty. In 2012, I participated in the NEH summer seminar “Oscar Wilde and His Circle” at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.

I am the author of Dorian Unbound: Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 (Palgrave, 2013), and a new edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (W.W. Norton, 2024). My work has also been published in Victorian Literature and Culture, The Henry James Review, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Yearbook of English Studies, and elsewhere.

I teach British and Irish literature, the nineteenth-century novel, world literature, writing, and various special-topics courses.

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