Nils Clausson, who received his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University,
has taught at the University of Regina (Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada) since 1984. His primary areas of research are Victorian and
early twentieth-century British literature, the detective story
(including Arthur Conan Doyle), and the theory and practice of
genre criticism. He has published on Benjamin Disraeli, Matthew
Arnold, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilfred Owen, and D. H. Lawrence.