Robert L. Patten is one of the best-known scholars of Charles Dickens, and of English Literature. His classic Charles Dickens and His Publishers was reissued in a second revised edition by Oxford University Press in 2017. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has chaired the Victorian Division of the Modern Languages Association, and served as President of the international Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing. He has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.