Justin A. Sider

Professor Justin A. Sider's CV

Justin A. Sider is associate 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, Snows of Yesteryear: Aestheticism and the Poetry of Imitation on the sophisticated nostalgia of aestheticist poetry from Romanticism to the mid-twentieth century.

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

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

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