Chris Foss

Chris Foss is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He earned a Ph.D. in Nineteenth-century British literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of over 30 scholarly publications and over 50 academic conference papers. His particular emphases within his specialty area include Toru Dutt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Oscar Wilde. He also has secondary expertise in disability studies, with an emphasis on autism studies.

He served as lead editor on Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, also contributing a chapter on autism and manga as well as coauthoring the book's Introduction. Among his other scholarly publications, he has contributed chapters to several books: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability; Critical Insights: Oscar Wilde; Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media; Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives; Gender and Victorian Reform; Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing; and A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project.