Notes on Contributors

Todd Avery is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, literary and cultural theory, and relations between science and literature in Victorian and modern England. He is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received his Ph.D. in English and cultural studies in 2001, and his primary research interest is in intersections of literature, ethics, and cultural politics in British modernism. His publications include essays on Virginia Woolf, T. E. Hulme, the Bloomsbury Group, British aestheticism, early radio, and the cultural politics of baseball in the 1920s and 1930s. He is currently at work on two book projects, "Virginia Woolf's Democratic Vision" and "Talking Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC."

Robert Darby is an independent scholar and freelance writer living in Canberra, Australia. He has recently completed a major study of the rise and decline of routine male circumcision in Britain, due to be published late in 2004. He has previously published articles in medical and sexual history in the Journal of Social History, Social History of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century Life, and the Medical Journal of Australia.

Leendert F. Groenendijk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the author of "The Sanctification of the Household and the Reformation of Manners in English Puritanism and in Dutch Pietism during the 17th Century," in Confessional Sanctity (c. 1500-c. 1800), edited by Jürgen Beyer, Albrecht Burkhardt, Fred van Lieburg, and Marc Wingens (2003), and of various other studies on themes in the history of Protestant family life and education.

Benjamin B. Roberts is a postdoctorate researcher affiliated with the History Department at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is currently working on the manuscript "Becoming a Man: The Emergence of a Youth Culture in Early Seventeenth-Century Holland" (forthcoming, 2005). He is the author of Through the Keyhole: Dutch Child-rearing Practices in the 17th and 18th Century (1998). His recent publications on Dutch youths and masculinity in the early modern period include Losbandige Jeugd. Jongeren en moraal in de late middeleeuwen en de vroegmoderne tijd (Wild youth: Young people and morality in the late Middle Ages and early modern period), coedited with Leendert Groenendijk (2004), and various articles, including "Emerging Youth Culture in Early Seventeenth-Century Holland," in Antiquity and Modernity: A Celebration of European History and Heritage in the Olympic Year 2004, edited by Gregory T. Papanikos and Nicholas C. J. Pappas (2004); "Edifying Youths: The Chambers of Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century Holland," in Paedagogica Historica, coauthored with Arjan van Dixhoorn (2003); and "On Not Becoming a Delinquent: Raising Dutch Adolescent Boys in the Dutch Republic, 1600-1750," in Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950, edited by Pamela Cox and Heather Shore (2002).

James M. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. Currently, he is completing a book project entitled "Ireland's Architecture of Containment: Contemporary Narratives of the Nation State," that examines cultural representations of institutional care as it relates to adoption, residential child care, and infanticide in postindependent Ireland. He has published articles in ELH, Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, and Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists. He is editor of the forthcoming Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent" and Sydney Owenson's "The Wild Irish Girl" (2005).