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William Baker

Professor

Distinguished Research Professor, Board of Trustees Professor, 19th-century British Literature, Bibliography

Office: FO 207B
Phone: 753-1857
Email: wbaker@niu.edu
Home Page: http://www.engl.niu.edu/wbaker/wbakerCV.html

Educational Background


Ph.D. London University; 1974

M.L.S. Loughborough University; 1987

M.Phil. London University; 1970

B.A. University of Sussex; 1966


Professional Interests


The Victorian Period

George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Wilkie Collins

Literary History and Biography

Drama, including Pinter and Shakespeare

Textual Studies


Selected Publications >

Current Courses >

Selected Publications

  • "Prize Newdigate." TLS (27 January 2012): 24.
  • The Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare. 5 vols. Ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. New York: Facts on File, 2012.
  • Review of The Life of George Eliot. TLS 29 June 2012. p. 26.
  • "Parasols and Blank Verse." TLS 21 (January 2011): 15.
  • "Five Unpublished William Michael Rossetti Letters." Notes and Queries 58.1 (March 2011): 94-98.
  • With Patrick Scott. "Professor Trevor Howard-Hill: Shakespearean scholar known for his pioneering work in literary computing." Independent (August 2011). Web.
  • "Pinto, Vivian de Sola (1895-1969)." ODNB Online (Sept. 2011). Web.
  • With Patrick Scott. "In Memoriam Trevor Howard Hill 17 October 1933 - 1 June 2011." PBSA 105.3 (2011): 285-289.
  • "Harold Pinter's Library." In Remembering/Celebrating harold Pinter: The Pinter Review Memorial Volume. Ed. Francis Gillen. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2011. 148-155.
  • With A. Gasson, P. Lewis, and G. Law. "The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and Corrigenda (7)." Wilkie Collins Society 2011.
  • "The Passion for the Book and Bibliography." PBSA 105.3 (2011): 407-13.
  • With Gerald N. Wachs. Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History. British Library, Oak Knoll Press, 2010.
  • Branwell Bronte: The History of the Young Men. Edited by students of English 762 with the guidance of William Baker. Sydney: U of New South Wales Juvenilia Press, 2010.
  • "Barfield's Books." Renaissance 63.1 (Fall 2010): 23-40.
  • "Christina Rossetti: An Unpublished Letter and an Unrecorded Copy of Verses." Notes & Queries 57.2 (June 2010): 221-23.
  • With Jeanette Shumaker. Leonard Merrick: A Forgotten Novelist's Novelist. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009.
  • "Hamburger, Michael Peter Leopold (1924-2007)." ODNB Online. Web.

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Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 601.1 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / FO237
Summer 2013ENGL 707.P1 (details)
MW / 6:00 - 8:40 / FO237
Fall 2011ENGL 601.0001 (details)
TH / 6:00-8:40 / FO 237
Spring 2012ENGL 407.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH302
Spring 2012ENGL 601.1 (details)
TH / 6:00 - 8:40 / FO 237
Fall 2012ENGL 601. (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / FO237