Dr. Sean Grass (Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology) is currently the Vice-President and President-Elect of the Dickens Society and a long-time member. Sean Grass is Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has authored several essays and three books, The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (2003), Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History (2014). His latest book is The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace (Cambridge, 2019). His varied research interests include the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, the Victorian literary market, book history, Victorian autobiography and poetry, and Victorian print and visual culture. Currently he is engaged in a project about London, Dickens, and prisons for an upcoming anthology on the city.

Dr. Grass’s latest article, “Accounting for Taste: Very Hard Cash and Middle-Class Readership” (Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 52., no.3, 2019), is available here (access required).

The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace (Cambridge, 2019) is available here (access required).

A blog post about the new book on Cambridge’s blog “Fifteen Eighty-Four” can be found here.