Colin Cavendish-Jones's principal research interests are European nihilism, the Victorian religious unsettlement, the Romantic, Aesthetic and Modernist movements, the reception of Classical literature, and the intersection of literature and philosophy, particularly in the nineteenth century. He has written on a variety of nineteenth and early twentieth-century writers, including Pater, Wilde, Trollope, Hardy, Chesterton and Proust, as well as on the reception of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. Dr. Cavendish-Jones studied Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford and subsequently practiced as an international lawyer in London, Dubai and the U.S.A. After working as a teacher, lecturer, journalist and theatre director in numerous countries throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, he returned to academia and completed a PhD. in Victorian literature at the University of St. Andrews, focusing on the Aesthetic Movement. He is currently a professor in the Department of English at Xiamen University Malaysia.