Biographies
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Julie F. Codell, Professor of Art History and English, Arizona State University, is the author of The Victorian Artist (2003) and Images of an Idyllic Past: Edward Curtis’s Photographs (1988); editor of The Political Economy of Art (2008), Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema (2007), and Imperial Co-Histories (2003); and coeditor with L. Brake of Encounters in the Victorian Press (2004) and with D. S. Macleod of Orientalism Transposed (1998), now being translated into Japanese. She is currently editing Photography and the Imperial Durbars of British India (2008) and preparing a book on British coronations in Delhi, 1877–1911, a project for which she has received fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Foundation, and the Huntington Library.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, is author of Graham R.: Rosamond Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (2005), awarded the RSVP 2006 Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for a work making a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals. She is coauthor with Michael Lund of The Victorian Serial (1991) and Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell’s Work (1999). She is currently completing a book on Victorian poetry in the context of print culture.
Christine Bayles Kortsch teaches English Literature at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Her current book project is a study of women’s dress and sewing and its relationship to literacy and social activism in late Victorian fiction.
[End Page 273] Mary Elizabeth Leighton is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria. Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Essays on Canadian Writing, Excavatio, and Victorian Literary Mesmerism (Rodopi 2006), and is forthcoming in Victorian Animal Dreams (Ashgate). She is currently investigating Andrew Lang’s role in the institutional history of English Literature in the 1880s and 1890s.
Emma Liggins is a Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published on the New Woman and sensation fiction. Recent publications include George Gissing, The Working Woman and Urban Culture (2006). She is now working on a study of spinsterhood in British women’s fiction, 1850–1939.
Cheryl Stiles has worked as a librarian for the past 24 years in both academic and public libraries. She is currently Coordinator of Library Instruction at the Horace W. Sturgis Library of Kennesaw State University. She recently completed her second year of doctoral studies in English at Georgia State University. Her poems and reviews have appeared in numerous journals including Poet Lore, POEM, Atlanta Review, SLANT, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
Larry K. Uffelman, Professor Emeritus of English, English Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA, is a long-time member of RSVP. He has contributed to and edited RSVP’s recurring checklist of scholarship on periodicals. He has also published on Charles Kingsley’s serialized novels and, most recently, on Elizabeth Gaskell’s serial fiction.
Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, originated, and updates annually, “Victorian Periodicals Aids to Research: A Selected Bibliography” on the Victorian Research Web (http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html). Her most recent publication is a biography of journalist Florence Fenwick Miller.
Lewis H. Whitaker is completing his Ph.D. in English Literature at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His research interests include late-Victorian aesthetics, religion and sexuality, particularly as these are expressed in the Decadent movement and within the John Gray circle.
Arlene Young is Associate Professor of English at the Unviersity of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She is author of Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women (1999), and she is the editor of Broadview Press editions of [End Page 274] George Gissing’s The Odd Women (1998; reprinted 2002) and Tom Gallon’s The Girl Behind the Keys. She has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture in Victorian Studies, Studies in the Novel, American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, the Gissing Journal, and English Literature in Transition. Her current research focuses on middle-class women and work in Victorian fiction and periodical literature. [Begin Page 275]
