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Jay M. Dickson is Professor of English and Humanities at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï. He received an A.B. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. in English is from Princeton University. Professor Dickson has taught at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï from 1996 to 1999 as a Visiting Assistant Professor, and then since 2001 on a permanent basis. From 1999 to 2001 he was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee—Knoxville, where he was awarded the John G. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award. At ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï, he teaches in Humanities 110 and Humanities 220, and he also teaches courses in the English department on modernism and on fiction from the Victorian period to the present. He has published many scholarly essays on 20th-century fiction and culture, including on such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and E. M. Forster. He recently published “Charles Ryder’s Sentimental Education: The Lessons of Friendship in Brideshead Revisited” in Friendship and the Novel, ed. Allan Hepburn (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024), and he has essays forthcoming on Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf in Elizabeth Bowen in Context (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) and on John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield in Katherine Mansfield Studies. He is currently working on Evelyn Waugh’s relationship to the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement.