George P. Landow

George P. Landow, of Providence; May 31, after a two-year battle with metastatic sarcomatoid prostate cancer. He taught at Columbia, the University of Chicago, Brasenose College, and Oxford before coming to Brown to teach in the English and Art History departments. He served Brown for three years as chair of the faculty. From 2000 through 2002 he was the founding dean of the University Scholars Program at the National University of Singapore, after having been brought there as a distinguished visiting professor. He authored multiple books and articles on Victorian literature and art and saw several works translated into Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. His academic honors included a graduate student Fulbright, two Guggenheims, two senior Fulbrights, and a fellowship at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities. He retired in 2012 and traveled the world lecturing until the pandemic. As editor-in-chief, Landow expanded the world-renowned Victorian Web, establishing a foundation and editorial board to ensure it would continue. He was also recognized as Master Model Railroader #737 by Little Rhody, his local National Model Railroad Association division. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; daughter Shoshana Landow ’98 MD, ’16 MPH; a son and daughter-in-law; a son-in-law; two grandsons; and a sister.