Notes on Contributors
Christina de Bellaigue is fellow, tutor and university lecturer in history at Exeter College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Britain and France. Her book Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France will be published by OUP later this year.
David Gervais is an Honorary Fellow in English at the University of Reading. He has written widely on English and French tragedy and on modern poetry.
Richard Hibbitt is a research assistant in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Dilettantism and its Values: From Weimar Classicism to the Fin de Sie`cle (Legenda 2006).
Damian Love is an independent scholar, and completed a DPhil on Samuel Beckett in 2005. He is presently working on verse translations of Old English poetry.
Claire Lockwood studies at King's College, Cambridge and is writing a PhD thesis on 'Silences in Modern Poetry'.
Sophie Read is a college lecturer in English and fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. She is currently finishing a project on the rhetoric of the real presence in seventeenth-century literature.
Margaret Loewen Reimer has pursued her academic interest in Victorian literature alongside a career in journalism. She has written extensively on religion and the arts, including a published series of lectures entitled 'Mennonites and the Artistic Imagination' (1998). She is from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Marcus Waithe is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of William Morris's Utopia of Strangers: Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2006).
