Neil Hultgren

2024-2025 Academic Senate Chair

Neil Hultgren received his BA from Augustana College in Illinois and his MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. He has held a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, and in summer 2017 he was on a one-month fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Hultgren teaches courses in Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, Oscar Wilde, popular fiction, and the novel. He is the author of Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes (Ohio UP, 2014). He has published essays on H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, and Oscar Wilde. He is currently working on a project titled “Cosmic Romance: The Universe in British Fiction, 1885-1925.”