Prof Jeremy Treglown

Career: lectr in English Lincoln Coll Oxford 1973-76, lectr UCL 1976-79, ed TLS 1982-90 (asst ed 1980-82), prof of English Univ of Warwick 1993- (chair Dept of English and Comparative Literature Studies 1995-98); contrib to jls incl: FT, TLS, New Yorker; visiting fell All Souls Coll Oxford 1986, Mellon visiting assoc Caltech, fell Huntington Library San Marino 1988, Ferris prof Princeton Univ 1992, Jackson Brothers fell Beinecke Library Yale Univ 1999, Leverhulme res fell 2001-03, Mellon fell Humanities Res Center Univ of Texas Austin 2002, Margaret and Herman Sokol fell Center for Scholars and Writers NY Public Library 2002-03, fell in history Bogliasco Fndn 2011, fell Rockefeller Fndn Bellagio 2011; hon res fell UCL 1991-; chm of judges: Booker Prize 1991, Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1997; FRSL 1989 (memb Cncl)

Books and Publications: The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (ed, 1980), Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester (ed, 1982), The Lantern-Bearers: Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson (ed, 1988), Roald Dahl: A Biography (1994), Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet (ed with Bridget Bennett, 1998), Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green (2000), V S Prichett: A Working Life (2004), Essential Stories by V S Pritchett (ed, 2005), The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl (ed, 2006)