Oxford World's Classics Sherlock Holmes - Online Panel
Monday, March 27, 2023 · 6:00 p.m.
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London (GMT +1:00)
About this Webinar
Join us for the exciting launch of our brand-new Oxford World’s Classics editions of Sherlock Holmes. Darryl Jones, Series Editor, and Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture at Trinity College Dublin, will be chairing an insightful discussion with Jarlath Killeen, Editor of 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', Christopher Pittard, Editor of 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes', and Nicholas Daly, Editor of 'A Study in Scarlet'.
Darryl Jones
Series Editor and Editor of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'
Darryl Jones is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature and popular fiction. He has written and edited many works, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories (2013), Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales (2018), H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (2017), and The Island of Doctor Moreau (2017).
Jarlath Killeen
Editor of 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'
Jarlath Killeen studied at Trinity College Dublin, and University College Dublin, writing his doctoral thesis on Catholicism in the work of Oscar Wilde. He has been a lecturer in English literature at University College Dublin, the University of Keele, and Trinity College Dublin, where he took up a position in the School of English in 2006. He has published extensively on Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and British and Irish Gothic literature and culture.
Christopher Pittard
Editor of 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'
Christopher Pittard is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth and author of Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction (2011), and The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes (2019).
Nicholas Daly
Editor of 'A Study in Scarlet'
Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His publications include Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (2009), and The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York (2015). He has edited Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel and Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda for Oxford World's Classics. His Ruritania: A Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries were published by Oxford University Press in 2020.