He has taught at the universities of Luton, Dundee, Southern California and the University of Florida. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city.
Professor Wolfreys is the author of Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Haunting, the Gothic, and the Uncanny in Literature (2001); Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory (2000); (with Jeremy Gibson) Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text (2000); Deconstruction: Derrida (1998); Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens (1998); The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance: Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida (1996); Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope (1994). He has, in addition, edited and co-edited numerous books, and is, most recently, General Editor of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory (2002).
His most recent publications are Derrida: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum 2007); Writing London vol. III: Inventions of the City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Past, Modernity and Cultural Memory in the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is currently compiling a concordance of the works of Derrida in English.
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