Dennis Denisoff
Occupation	novelist, poet, academic
Nationality	Canadian

Dennis Denisoff is a Canadian author, poet and scholar, and the Endowed McFarlin Chair of Literature and Film in the English Department at theUniversity of Tulsa. Denisoff was an early member ofThe Kootenay School of Writing.

He completed a PhD atMcGill University and a postdoctoral fellowship atPrinceton University, and is currently McFarlin Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at theUniversity of Tulsa. His research specialties include gender/sexuality studies, decadence/aestheticism, eco-studies, and pagan eco-politics.

He was an early member ofThe Kootenay School of Writing in the 1980s, writing poetry and prose at the intersection of queer identity and LANGUAGE poetics. A runner-up in theThree-Day Novel Contest in 1989,^[1] Denisoff's debut novelDog Years was published in 1991 byArsenal Pulp Press while he was a Ph.D. student atMcGill University.^[2] The novel, about a protagonist withHIV/AIDS, was a finalist for theHugh Maclennan Prize in 1992^[3] and the Norma Epstein Award.

In 1994, Denisoff published a poetry collection,Tender Agencies,^[4] and edited the anthologyQueeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose.^[5] His second novel,The Winter Gardeners, was published in 2003, and in 2004 he publishedThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories.

His academic publications includeErín Moure and Her Works (1995),Aestheticism and Sexual Parody: 1840-1940 (2001), andSexual Visuality from Literature to film: 1850-1950 (2004). He is the editor ofThe Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (2008), a special issue ofVictorian Review onNatural Environments (2011), and another forVictorian Literature and Culture onScales of Decadence, as well as being a co-editor ofPerennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1999) and the digital humanities projectThe Yellow Nineties Online (2015). He has also been a co-editor of the journalsWhite Wall Review,Nineteenth Century Studies andFeminist Modernist Literature. He is the recipient of the President's Award from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association and the Sarwan Sohata Distinguished Scholar Award from Ryerson University, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Exeter, Cambridge University, and Queen Mary—University of London.

He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his partner Morgan Holmes.^[6]

• Dog Years (1991)
• The Winter Gardeners (2003)

• Tender Agencies (1994)

• Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose (1994)
• The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories (2004)
• Arthur Machen: Decadent and Occult Works (2019)

• Erín Moure and Her Works (1995)
• Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (co-edited with Liz Constable and Matt Potolsky, 1999)
• Aestheticism and Sexual Parody: 1840-1940 (2001)
• Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film: 1850-1950 (2004)
• The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (2008)
• Natural Environments guest edited special issue ofVictorian Review
• The Yellow Nineties Online (co-edited with Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2015)
• The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature (co-edited with Talia Schaffer, 2020)
• Scales of Decadence guest edited special issue ofVictorian Literature and Culture (2021)

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