Joshua Brorby

Joshua Brorby researches and teaches nineteenth-century British literature, with a focus on religion and the culture of translation. He writes about the poets, novelists, religious scholars, and travelers who translated non-Christian religious texts in the Victorian period, as well as the concomitant shifts in conceptions of identity that became legible in the self-conscious commentaries attached to these translation projects. 

Dr. Brorby teaches courses on the Victorian novel, poetry, Romanticism, literary research methods and theory, and critical inquiry and writing. Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2024, he taught Victorian literature and literary theory as a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri.