Chris Baldick

Professor Chris Baldick (born 1954) is a British academic who teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has worked in the fields of literary criticism, literary theory, literary history and literary terminology. He was previously Senior Lecturer in English at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Ormskirk.

He is the son of Robert Baldick, a scholar of French literature and translator.

Selected publications The Decadence Reader, ed. with Jane Desmarais. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms The Oxford English Literary History, volume 10 (1910–1940): The Modern Movement Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (ed) In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932