John O. Jordan

Short Biography

John O. Jordan’s research focuses on British Victorian literature, especially Charles Dickens. He has edited or co-edited several volumes of essays, including, most recently, The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001) and, with Gordon Bigelow, Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s Bleak House (MLA 2008). He has published several essays on “postcolonial Dickens”– the adaptation and appropriation of Dickens by writers and filmmakers from the former British colonies. His most recent research includes an essay on David Copperfield and a monograph on Bleak House. He is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs the Dickens Project, a multi-campus research consortium.