Richard Fulton

Through a forty year academic career that included stops in South Dakota, Washington (both the state and the district), Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, the Azores, New York, Montana, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Texas Richard Fulton has carried on research on Victorian life and culture, particularly the culture of Victorian boys. He has also published on aspects of the Victorian periodical press, edited the Victorian Periodicals Review, and served as president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States.

In the last seven years he co-edited Oceania and the Victorian Imagination (Ashgate, 2013) and South Seas Encounters (Routledge, 2018), wrote Warrior Generation 1865-1885 (Bloomsbury, 2020) and retired. Three times. In 2018, after a stint as an interim administrator in San Antonio, he finally realized that the working for wages part of his life was really over. He donated all of his dean suits to Goodwill and resolved to live the rest of his life in slippers, cargo shorts and microbrewery t-shirts.

He and his wife Debra live part of the year in Honolulu and part of the year in the book-soaked city of Bellingham, WA. He continues his Victorian research, and also writes book reviews and crime/adventure fiction.