Contributors
- Contributors
Jed Esty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (2004) and coeditor, with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, and Matti Bunzl, of Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005). He is currently at work on a book entitled Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity.
Anna Johnston is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania and Deputy Director of the Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath. She is the author of Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860 (2003) and coeditor of In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire (2002). She is currently completing a project entitled The ‘Paper War’: Missionary Textuality and Early Australian Colonial Culture, and is about to commence a study of nineteenth–century travel writing about Australia, for which she has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship.
Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Preserving the Self in the South Seas (2001), about seventeenthand eighteenth–century navigations of the Pacific and is currently working on a book called “The Things Things Say,” dealing with fable, still life, metamorphosis, and personification. He is coediting a series with Palgrave on historical reenactment.
Harriet Ritvo is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at MIT and the author of The Animal Estate (1987) and The Platypus and the Mermaid (1997). Her article is based on research for The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere and the Victorian Environment, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Garrett Ziegler is a PhD candidate in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. His article on representations of the New York City subway appeared recently in Space and Culture. He is currently at work on his dissertation, entitled “The Nation of Counties: Local Identity in Modern England.”
Jordanna Bailkin is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Culture of Property (2004) and is currently researching a new project on the impact of decolonization on the social sciences, especially law. Her most recent contribution to Victorian Studies was “The Place of Liberalism” (Autumn 2005).
Lucy Bland teaches women's studies and history at London Metropolitan University. She is author of Banishing the Beast (1995, 2nd edition 2001) and coeditor (with Laura Doan) of Sexology Uncensored (1998) and Sexology in Culture (1998). She is currently working on a book about gender, sexuality, race, and nation in the 1920s, through an exploration of British court trials.
John Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth–Century Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (2000) and has recently edited, with Robert L. Patten, Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies (2006). He is a Fellow of the English Association and will serve as President of the Dickens Society in 2008.
Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy and College Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. His most recent books are Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties (2001); A Companion to the Victorian Novel (2002), coedited with William B. Thesing; and Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930 (2003).
Leo Costello is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University. He is currently at work on a study of Turner, tentatively titled “J. M. W. Turner and the Subject of History.” His essay on Turner's The Slave Ship (1840) appeared in the anthology Discourses of Slavery and Abolition in 2004.
Margaret Flanders Darby teaches writing in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University. She has published articles on women characters in Dickens, as well as on Victorian garden history, including “Joseph Paxton's Water Lily” for a Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies symposium volume (2002). She is working on a book about the glass house as a Victorian metaphor of femininity.
Gowan Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (2007), coauthor of Science in the Nineteenth...
