J. B. Bullen

Who is J. B. Bullen?

J. B. Bullen is a noted interdisciplinary writer specialising in examining the relationship between literature, mostly English literature, and art in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has written on Coleridge, Ruskin, Dickens, George Eliot and perhaps most notably on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Thomas Hardy. He is the editor of two notable series for Peter Lang: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts and Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. Bullen took his first degree at the University of Cambridge this was followed by spells as a researcher at the University of Oxford and then on to University of Reading where he is an emeritus professor.He now holds the Chair of English Literature and Culture in the Department of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Bullen's spouse is the noted writer and painter Roma Tearne.