I’m Dr. Jonathan Buckmaster, a researcher of Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture.
After receiving my first degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University in 1994, I returned to studying in 2003, completing my MA in Literature (with Distinction) at the Open University in 2007, and then receiving my doctorate on Charles Dickens and the pantomime clown from Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2013.
I have taught on Poetry and Victorian Literature at Royal Holloway, and I’m currently Assistant Editor for Dickens Journals Online, the digital archive of four journals that Dickens edited from 1850 to 1870.
My research interests include:
- Charles Dickens’s relationship with popular culture, particularly the pantomime
- Dickens’s afterlives on film and television
- Dickens’s influence on the works of Salman Rushdie
- Wilkie Collins and adaptations of his work
To find out more about my academic work, please see the ‘My Publications’ and ‘My Papers’ sections of this blog and my academia.edu profile.
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Victorian is the New Black 