Author: John M. Bowen
Born: 1958
Bio: John M. Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, York, United Kingdom. He joined the Department in 2005 from Keele University, where he was Professor of Modern English Literature. His main research areas are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, in particular the works of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian novelists, but he has also written on modern poetry and fiction, as well as essays on literary theory. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, a Fellow of the English Association (FEA), and has given many keynote addresses and public lectures around the world.

He is the author of *Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit* (2000, 2003) and has edited Dickens's *Barnaby Rudge*, Anthony Trollope’s *Barchester Towers* (2014) and *Phineas Redux* (2011), and *Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies* with Robert L. Patten.  He is the author of more than fifty academic articles and book chapters, including contributions to the *Oxford History of the Novel in English*, *Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens*, the *Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins*, and the *Cambridge History of English Literature*.

Source: [University of York](https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/john-bowen/#profile-content)