The New Criterion

Paul Dean is Head of English at Summer Fields School, Oxford. He was born in Stockport, England, in 1953 and was educated at the University of Manchester, from which he received the degrees of B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. From 1979 to 1999 he taught English in independent senior schools in Manchester and Portsmouth. Dr. Dean has been a contributor to The New Criterion since 1994. His work has appeared in many other publications, among them Essays in Criticism, Renaissance Quarterly, Shakespeare Quarterly, the London Times Literary Supplement, The Use of English, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times. For ten years he was a contributor to The Year's Work in English Studies and for five years a member of its editorial board. He is an International Advisory Editor of the Dutch journal English Studies, for which he also writes an annual survey-review of works of literary theory, history and criticism. In 2000 he was invited to become a Founding Fellow of the English Association in recognition of his services to the teaching profession.