Robert Viking O'Brien's
book reviews, essays, and articles have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Studies in Philology, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Connecticut Review, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature, The Journal of African Travel-Writing, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Early Modern Literary Studies, The Yearbook of General and Comparative Literature, Representations of Education in Literature, and Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity. His translations and retellings of Melanesian folktales have appeared in Marvels and Tales: A Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Chain, Nostoc Magazine, and Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition.
After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Solomon Islands, O’Brien earned a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He taught world literature and travel literature for the University of Pittsburgh’s Semester-at-Sea program. As a Fulbright Scholar, he taught Shakespeare and American literature at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. He presently teaches English literature at California State University in Chico, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
