Andrew King (born 1957) is Professor of English Literature and Literary Studies at the University of Greenwich[1] and, since 2019, President of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.
In 1990 he married a British council officer and accompanied her on her postings for the 1990s, completing a second MA, this time in English at the University of Sussex, in 1992.
It was while at Canterbury Christ Church that he published his monograph on The London Journal,[2] and edited two collections of primary sources with John Plunkett from Exeter University: Victorian Print Media and Popular Print Media, 1820–1900 Later he guest edited three special numbers of learned journals, including one on Angels and Demons in Critical Survey, another (with Marysa Demoor of the Ghent University) on the V ictorian professions, the press and gender in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, while the third was on work and leisure Archived 2016-05-15 at the Wayback Machine in Victorian Periodicals Review.
Both the latter won the Robert and Vineta Colby Prize for the book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press.
He has also published a critical edition of The Massarenes, the last full-length novel by Ouida, and written a considerable number of articles, chapters and book reviews as listed on his staff profile page.