Lesley Higgins’s research and teaching interests include modernist and Victorian literary culture, gender studies and feminist critique, textual studies, and poetry. She is the author of The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2002) and co-editor of Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (Greensboro: ELT Press, 2004). For Oxford University Press, she is co-general editor of the nine-volume Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Her edition of Hopkins’s Oxford Essays, 1863-1868 appeared in fall 2006; the Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks, 2015; and the Dublin Notebook (co-edited with Michael Suarez, S.J.), 2014. With David Latham, she is the co-general editor of Oxford UP’s Collected Works of Walter Pater, a ten-volume project supported by a $175,000 SSHRC grant. Her essays can be found in College Literature, English Literature in Transition, Gender in Joyce, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Rethinking Marxism, Southern Review, Victorian Poetry, and Victorian Studies.

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Lesley Higgins’s research and teaching interests include modernist and Victorian literary culture, gender studies and feminist critique, textual studies, and poetry. She is the author of The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2002) and co-editor of Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (Greensboro: ELT Press, 2004). For Oxford University Press, she is co-general editor of the nine-volume Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Her edition of Hopkins’s Oxford Essays, 1863-1868 appeared in fall 2006; the Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks, 2015; and the Dublin Notebook (co-edited with Michael Suarez, S.J.), 2014. With David Latham, she is the co-general editor of Oxford UP’s Collected Works of Walter Pater, a ten-volume project supported by a $175,000 SSHRC grant. Her essays can be found in College Literature, English Literature in Transition, Gender in Joyce, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Rethinking Marxism, Southern Review, Victorian Poetry, and Victorian Studies.

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Modern Language Association
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
International Hopkins Association
International Walter Pater Society

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