Dennis Denisoff, Ph.D.

About

Dennis Denisoff, Ph.D., works in environmental humanities and gender/sexuality studies in Victorian and Modernist literature and culture. He has authored four scholarly monographs and three books of creative writing, and edited eight works and co-edited four. He has held the Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair (2025) from Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College and the Ryerson Research Chair from Toronto Metropolitan University. He has received the President’s Award, North American Victorian Studies Association; President’s Award, Nineteenth Century Studies Association; Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award, Toronto Metropolitan University; and has been a Distinguished Research Fellow at U London – Queen Mary and a Research Fellow at Oxford University and at Exeter University. Recent publications include “The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment” (editor, 2025), “Decadent Ecology: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival” (Cambridge UP 2022), and guest-edited special journal issues on “Global Decadence” (Feminist Modernist Studies, 2021) and “Scales of Decadence” (Victorian Literature and Culture, 2021). He is past co-director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program, and past president of the North American Victorian Studies Association. He edits the series “Among the Victorians and Modernists” for Routledge Press and co-edits “Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment” for Cambridge University Press.

Awards and Honors

• Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 2025
• Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, University of London Queen Mary, 2022
• President’s Award, North American Victorian Studies Association, 2021
• Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 2014
• Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award, Ryerson University, 2011
• President’s Award, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, 2010
• Research Fellow, University of Exeter, 2007
• Research Chair, Ryerson University, 2005-08
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 1996-97