Biographies

Robert A. Colby was Associate Editor (Wellesley Index) of VPR, and a member of the Senior Advisory Council of RSVP. Among his publications is The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place (1966 with Vineta Colby).

Vineta Colby is Professor Emerita, Queens College, City University of New York. Her special scholarly interests have been the nineteenthcentury English novel, and nineteenth-century women novelists. Publications include several articles on nineteenth-century English women novelists and the following books: The Singular Anomaly: Nineteenth-Century English Women Novelists; Yesterday's Woman: English Domestic Novel; Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography.

Paul Dobraszczyk is completing his doctoral thesis in the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Reading, England. His research examines the design, construction, and reception of London's main drainage system (1848-68).

Richard Fulton is Dean for Instruction at Whatcom Community College. He is a past president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, former editor of VPR, an author of a number of articles and reviews of Victorian studies, and editor of The Union List of Victorian Serials.

Robert Grant is the author of the forthcoming Imagining Empire: British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement, c.1800–1860. He has presented papers in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and New Zealand and is a contributor to Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscapes and Politics, as well as The Journal for Maritime Research, the Transatlantic Journal, and the Journal of New Zealand History.

Mary Elizabeth Leighton is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria. Her article on the British Medical Journal and the late Victorian hypnotism controversy appeared in the Summer 2001 issue of VPR. She is currently investigating Andrew Lang's role in the institutional history of English Literature in the 1880s and 1890s.

Deborah A. Logan is an Associate Professor of English at Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green) specializing in Victorian literature and cultural studies. Her publications include Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing and The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau's 'Somewhat Remarkable' Life. She is the editor of Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War by Harriet Martineau; Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire (5 vols.); and Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales. Her current research projects are the collected letters of Harriet Martineau and a cultural study of nine-teenth-century opera.

Carol A. Martin is Professor of English at Boise State University. Her most recent publication is the Clarendon Edition of George Eliot's Adam Bede (Oxford University Press, 2001). She is also the author of George Eliot's Serial Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 1994), as well as many articles and reviews.

Bettina Tate Pedersen is Associate Professor of Literature at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California where she teaches nine-teenth-and twentieth-century British literature, women writers, and literary theory. She has presented work internationally and published on nineteenth-century British and Canadian women writers.

Anne Rodrick is Assistant Professor of History at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her book, Self-Help and Civic Culture: Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham, was published by Ashgate Press in 2004. She is completing The History of Modern Britain for Greenwood Press.

Juliette Berning Schaefer is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, where she teaches British literature, composition, and humanities. Her research interests include Victorian literature, women's studies, teaching, technology, and composition. She has published on Helen Taylor and using technology in the college classroom.

Janice Schroeder is Assistant Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa. She has published and has work forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Her article on the English Woman's Journal appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review (Fall 2002).

Jennifer Shepherd is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hull and teaches at the Open University. Her current research includes the fin-de-siècle literary market, the novels of Elizabeth von Arnim, and women's material culture at the turn of...