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Prof Barrie Bullen

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

Tutor for Continuing Education

Department for Continuing Education

PhD and BA (Cantab)

barrie.bullen@kellogg.ox.ac.uk

JB Bullen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London, and now Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford University. He has had a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary studies and his books include The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry and Criticism (OUP 1998). In 2003 he published a history of the Byzantine Revival entitled Byzantium Rediscovered and in 2005 European Crosscurrents: British Criticism and Continental Art, 1810-1910. His book Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet appeared in 2011. He has written two books on Thomas Hardy. The first was The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the work of Thomas Hardy (1986) and the second Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels (2013). He is editing the séance diary of William Michael Rossetti and working on the influence of the occult on mid-nineteenth century art and literature.