Professor William Baker is Distinguished Chair and Qiantang River Professor at Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, PR China, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

He is also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of World Literature and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University.

He is the author, co-author or editor of over 30 books and has published more than 150 refereed articles.

He is updating his and the late Gerald N. Wachs’s Tom Stoppard: A Biographical History (British Library: Oak Knoll, 2010). Recent books include Pinter's World: Relationships, Obsessions, and Artistic Endeavours (Fairleigh Dickinson UP,2018).

He is the co-author with Jeanette Roberts Shumaker of Jewish Writing: A Reference and Critical Guide to Jewish Writing in the UK (2 volumes, xBrighton: Edward Everett Root, 2019). He is co-editor YWES [Year's Work in English Studies:OUP], co-editor George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies [PennStateUP] and Book Review Editor,Advisor, STYLE (PennStateUP).

Awards

• “in recognition of major contributions to the English Association”: Honorary Fellow, English Association, 2015—

About

• Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion, co-edited by Kenneth Womack and James M. Decker. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi +202-a tribute to Baker’s contributions to Literary Studies Reviewed [very favourably]: Kate Symondson, TLS May 19,2017: 31
• See also: Li Yafei “Literature, Text and Theory: An Interview with Professor William Baker.” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature [ISSN: 2520-2 no 2 (June 2018) 175-191]. www.isljournal.com

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