The Department of English
Sean O'Toole is Assistant Professor of English, specializing in Victorian and modernist literature, history of the novel, and sexuality/gender studies. A graduate of Georgetown University (BA) and the City University of New York (PhD), he taught in the Writing Program at Princeton University before joining the Baruch faculty in 2008. Professor O’Toole has written and spoken on the fiction of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Meredith, and Henry James, as well as the work of Andy Warhol and contemporary gay fiction. His current project is a study of bodily perception and the everyday in nineteenth-century narrative. He teaches writing (English 2100 and 2150), Great Works (English 2850), as well as various literature electives at Baruch.
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