After postgraduate work at the University of New Brunswick, and Nuffield College, Oxford, Martin Hewitt has held academic positions at the University of Hull, Trinity and All Saints (Leeds), Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Huddersfield, and Anglia Ruskin University. He has held visiting positions at Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Université Paris VII, La Trobe University, and the Australian National University. He has published widely in nineteenth century British history, Victorian culture, and the history of Victorian Studies and was the founding editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture, and first Honorary Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies.