The Department of English

Sean O’Toole is Assistant Professor of English, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature and culture and queer theory. A graduate of Georgetown University (BA) and the City University of New York (PhD), he has also taught at Princeton University and Queens College, CUNY. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture, The Henry James Review, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, and The Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Currently, he is working on a study of the worldly concept of habit in the Victorian novel, a form usually associated with psychological interiority and depth. Professor O’Toole teaches writing (English 2100 and 2150), Great Works (English 2850), as well as various literature electives.

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