Andrew King (professor)

Andrew King is Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Literary Studies at the University of Greenwich and Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. He specialises in nineteenth-century periodicals and popular fiction. From 2019-2022, he was President of the ' and is founding co-editor of '.

Academic Posts

After temporary posts overseas and in the UK, in 2003, King obtained his first full-time academic post. appointed him as a senior lecturer in the Media Department. In 2009, after a year's research fellowship at the University of Ghent, he was promoted to Reader in Print History. In May 2012 he was appointed Professor of English at the University of Greenwich.
In 2019, he co-founded ', the organ of the ', of which he became Acting and then Elected President 2018-2022. In 2025 he became Emeritus Professor.

Publications

His first monograph, which came out in 2004, was on The London Journal,. He soon after edited two collections of primary sources with John Plunkett from Exeter University: and
Later he guest edited three special numbers of learned journals, including one on in Critical Survey, another on the in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, while the third was on in Victorian Periodicals Review.
Collections of essays he has since edited with colleagues comprise ' and, with Alexis Easley and John Morton, the ' and '. Both the latter won the for the book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press.
King has also published a critical edition of ', the last full-length novel by Ouida.
His research on neglected but influential periodicals continued with in 2016 with ', a digitisation project centred on Victorian periodicals concerned with various aspects of work, and with ' and
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He runs a ' where he blogs on literary, cultural and publishing history.