Professor Chris Baldick (born 1954) is a British academic currently teaching at Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...

, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. who has worked in the fields of literary criticism, literary theory, and literary terminology. He was previously Senior Lecturer in English at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Ormskirk

Ormskirk

Ormskirk is a market town in West Lancashire, England. It is situated north of Liverpool city centre, northwest of St Helens, southeast of Southport and southwest of Preston.-Geography and administration:...

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He is the son of Robert Baldick

Robert Baldick

Robert Baldick was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice and a well-known translator. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford....

, scholar of French literature and translator.

Selected publications

• The Decadence Reader, ed. with Jane Desmarais (forthcoming, 2010)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms ISBN 978-0199238910
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms ISBN 978-0198608837
• The Oxford English Literary History, volume 10 (1910–1940): The Modern Movement ISBN 978-0199288342
• Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present ISBN 978-0582033818
• The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (ed) ISBN 978-0192862198
• In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing ISBN 978-0198122494
• The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932 ISBN 978-0198129790