Notes on Contributors
David Beckingham is a research student in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, investigating the drink industry and drink culture of Liverpool in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Fabrice Bensimon is a lecturer at Université Paris 10 – Nanterre. He is the author of Les Britanniques face à la révolution française de 1848 (Paris, 2000) and is currently working on British migrants in France in the 1830s and 1840s.
Barbara Caine is Professor of History at Monash University. She is the author of several books that look at the end of the nineteenth century including Bombay to Bloomsbury: a Biography of the Strachey Family (OUP, 2005), Gendering European History, jointly authored with Glenda Sluga (University of Leicester Press, 2001) and English Feminism, c 1780-1980 (OUP, 1997).
David Peters Corbett is Professor of History of Art at the University of York and has held visiting appointments at Yale University and Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has published widely on English art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is currently researching a book on nineteenth century American landscape and the aesthetic.
Michael Davis read English at King's College, Cambridge, before pursuing postgraduate study at the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool, and is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University in London. He is author of George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country (Ashgate, 2006).
Gowan Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Leicester, and an Ordinary Council Member of the British Society for the History of Science. He was previously Leverhulme Research Fellow examining the scientific content of nineteenth-century general periodicals, and, as part of this work, has co-authored a book on Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge [End Page 386] University Press, 2004), has co-edited a volume of essays on Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Ashgate, 2004), and is the co-author of a major electronic database, Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Online Index, published by the Humanities Research Institute Online Press (http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/) [2004]. He guest-edited, with Sally Shuttleworth, a special number of the journal Victorian Poetry on 'Science and Victorian Poetry' (41 [2003]). His monograph Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Ruth Forbes has a PhD from the University of Dundee and is presently working as a freelance historian.
Ross G. Forman, after four years at the AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures (based at the School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London), is currently teaching at the New York University in London programme. He is completing a book on British representations on China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Recent publications include the 'Empire' chapter in the new Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality (2005) and an article on Hong Kong and the literature of James Dalziel in the journal Criticism.
Kristen Guest is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, where she teaches Victorian literature.Her research interests are in Victorian theatre and popular culture. Her work has appeared in such journals as Studies in Romanticism, Victorian Literature and Culture and Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, and she has edited a collection of essays entitled Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity (SUNY Press).
Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan College, and author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (2004).
Philip Howell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and his principal research is on the historical geography of the regulation of prostitution in Britain and its Empire.
Anne Humpherys is Professor of English at Lehman College and The Graduate Centre, City University of New York. She is author of works on Henry Mayhew, G.W.M. Reynolds, Charles Dickens, and the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. She is currently co-editing a book [End Page 387] of...
