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  • Biographies

Andrea Broomfield is Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. She has published several articles on Victorian women and the periodicals press and is currently writing a book on the history of food and cooking in Victorian England for Praeger-Greenwood Press.

Alexis Easley is Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Her book, First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, was published in 2004. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, and other journals. Her essays have also appeared in book collections, most recently in Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, edited by Lynette Felber. She is currently completing a new book project, tentatively titled The Cult of Celebrity: Authorship, Gender, and the Victorian Culture Industry.

Edward Jacobs is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University, where he teaches courses in British literature and culture 1640–1840, literary theory, and textual scholarship. He is the author of Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of the Gothic Romance, and of various articles on British literature, publishing, and popular culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With Manuela Mourão, he is also the editor of W. H. Ainsworth's novel Jack Sheppard.

Patrick Leary has most recently written about Victorian authorship in a chapter (co-written with Andrew Nash) of the forthcoming volume of The Cambridge History of the Book In Britain devoted to the [End Page 294] nineteenth century, and currently serves as Vice-President of RSVP. His book on Punch will appear next year.

Kimberly Morse Jones is Associate Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Her area of research is late nineteenth Century British art history with a particular interest in art criticism. She received her Ph.D in 2004 from the University of Reading and is writing a book on Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

Juliette Berning Schaefer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, where she teaches British Literature and Composition. Her research interests include Victorian literature, women's studies, and teaching, technology, and composition. She has reviewed several books for VPR.

Larry K. Uffelman, emeritus professor of 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.

Megan Ward recently completed her Ph.D in English at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, "Feeling Middle Class: Sensory Perception in Victorian Literature and Culture," explores the connection between sensory training and middle-class aspiration. [End Page 295]

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