Contributors
- Contributors
Rob Breton has recently joined the faculty of Nipissing University as Assistant Professor of English. He has also recently published a book—Gospels and Grit: Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad, and Orwell—with the University of Toronto Press. His current work is focused on the British nineteenth-century working-class novel.
Anne Hartman is Research Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is currently writing a cultural history of confession entitled The Labour of Expression: The Politics and Poetics of Confession in Nineteenth-Century Britain, and a book on Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon for the series Writers and Their Works (Northcote House).
Tricia Lootens is Associate Professor of English and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. The author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization (Virgina, 1996), she is currently working on a study of national sentimentality and the poetess tradition.
Natalie Rose completed a PhD in English at the University of Toronto in 2005. Her dissertation, “Modalities of Gender and Nation in the Mid-Victorian Novel,” examines constructions of bounded selfhood and English hybridity.
Walter L. Arnstein is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Britain Yesterday & Today: 1830 to the Present (8th ed., 2001) and Queen Victoria (2003). He is at work on a compilation of contemporary writings about Queen Victoria for the projected “Lives of Victorian Political Figures” series.
Margaret Beetham, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, is author of A Magazine of her Own: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine (1996) and, with Kay Boardman, Victorian Women's Magazines: An Anthology (2001).
Antoinette Burton teaches modern British imperial history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is Chair of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies. She is currently at work on a book about Santha Rama Rau, a Cold War cosmopolitan. Burton's edited collection, Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions and the Writing of History, was published by Duke University Press in 2005.
Julie F. Codell, Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University, is the author of The Victorian Artist (2003) and editor of Film and Identities (2006) and Imperial Co-Histories (2003). She is coeditor of Encounters in the Victorian Press (2004) and Orientalism Transposed (1998), which is being translated into Japanese. She is editing an anthology, Power and Dominion (2007), on Delhi coronation durbar photographs; these durbars are the subject of her current project, supported by fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, NEH, and Huntington Library.
Carolyn Dever is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Death and the Mother From Dickens to Freud (1998) and Skeptical Feminism: Activist Theory, Activist Practice (2004). Her book in progress is titled “Queer Domesticities: Art and Intimacy in Victorian Britain.”
Ross G. Forman recently completed a four-year appointment as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Asian and African Literatures, an institute for comparative literary studies based at the School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London. A specialist in colonial and postcolonial literature, he is currently working on a project entitled “Empires Entwined: Britain and the Construction of China in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.”
John Glavin, Professor of English at Georgetown University, is the author of After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation & Performance (1999) and the editor of Dickens on Screen (2003). He was also for many years a working playwright. He is currently revising a booklength study of Italy and Shakespeare's Italian plays.
Lesley Hall is an archivist at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London. She is the author of Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 (2000) and editor of the anthology Outspoken Women: Women Writing about Sex 1870–1969 (2005); she has published several other books and numerous articles, chapters, and reviews.
Emily Harrington recently completed a PhD in English literature at the University of Michigan, where she is currently a...
