Daniel Wright is an associate professor of English at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in the history and theory of the novel; Victorian literature; and feminist, queer, and trans theory. He earned a joint degree in English and Philosophy as an undergraduate, which shaped his research on the intersections between literature and philosophy. Wright is the author of The Grounds of the Novel (Stanford UP, 2024) and Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018), and has published essays in journals such as PMLA (Modern Language Association of America) and Victorian Studies. He received the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities (2022) and the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature (2016).

Wright also served as Interim Associate Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation - Strategic Initiatives at UTM and co-organized the Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies (WINCS) series. He was elected to the UTM Campus Council in 2023.