Brian Donnelly

Prof. Brian Donnelly has been the faculty advisor for The Catalyst since 2015, which will mean 20 issues come spring 2022! Brian was born and raised in New Zealand, where he graduated with a BA in English Literature, before traveling to Britain and completing his PhD at the University of York. He moved to UCSB in 2007 and joined the English Department. His research interests are in word and image studies, science fiction and Victorian literature. He is the author of Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Painter as Poet, as well as diverse articles on Victorian literature. His creative interests lie in writing poetry and he has dreams of one day writing a novel. While he is always pushing his Catalyst editorial teams and their students to work harder, to be better, and to achieve more, he secretly believes they are among the most brilliant and dedicated students he has ever worked with, and he considers it a huge privilege to be part of The Catalyst project.