Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Romantic and Victorian Literature
- The Novel
- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Areas of Interest
- Literature and Philosophy
Biography
Daniel Wright specializes in the theory and history of the novel, particularly the Victorian realist novel; literature and philosophy, particularly ordinary language philosophy; feminist, queer, and trans theory; and psychoanalytic theory.
He is the author of The Grounds of the Novel (Stanford UP, 2024) and Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018), as well as essays in PMLA, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, ELH, and Public Books. His edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations for the Norton Library series was published in 2025.
Professor Wright’s research has been recognized by the UTM Research Prize in the Humanities (2022), a SSHRC Insight Grant (2020-24), and the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature (2016).
Publications
Edition
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Norton Library, 2025.
Books
The Grounds of the Novel. Stanford University Press, 2024.
Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Articles
“What Should a Novel Say?,” forthcoming in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
"Thomas Hardy's Groundwork," PMLA 134, no. 5 (Oct. 2019): 1028-41.
“Unhistorical Reading and Mutual Playing,” b2o, special issue, “v21,” edited by Benjamin Morgan and Anna Kornbluh (Fall 2016).
“Let Them Be: Hard Times and Stupid Politics,” Dickens Studies Annual 46 (2015), solicited contribution as part of a special forum on “Stupid Dickens."
“George Eliot’s Vagueness,” Victorian Studies 56, no. 4 (Summer 2014): 625-48.
“Because I Do: Trollope, Tautology, and Desire,” ELH 80, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1121-43.