Dustin Friedman

Dustin Friedman's fields of research and teaching are Victorian and modernist literature, aestheticism and Decadence, queer theory, the history and theory of aesthetics, and global nineteenth-century writing. He is also co-director of the M.A. in Literature, Culture, and Technology.

His book, Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) explores art as a form of queer resistance in the writings of authors such as Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), and the Michael Field poets (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper). He is co-editor, along with Kristin Mahoney, of the forthcoming collection Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1890s (Cambridge University Press). He has also begun work on a project that examines mythopoesis, aesthetics, and universalism at the fin de siècle. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity, Victorian Studies, Pedagogy, Feminist Modernist Studies, jml: Journal of Modern Literature, ELH, Studies in Romanticism, Literature Compass, and Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism. His research has been supported by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles, CA. He has presented his work at conferences in Rome, Hong Kong, Auckland, London, York, and throughout the United States and Canada. He previously taught at the National University of Singapore and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) UCLA (2007 — 2012)
• Master of Arts (M.A.) UCLA (2004 — 2007)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of California, Berkeley (2000 — 2004)

Companies

• Associate Professor American University (2021)
• Assistant Professor American University (2016 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2013 — 2016)
• Lecturer UCLA Department of English (2012 — 2013)
• Teaching Fellow UCLA Department of English (2005 — 2012)

Skills

• Microsoft Word
• Social Media
• University Teaching

Other

Qualitative Research, Editing, Higher Education, Research, Teaching