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  • Contributors

Tina Young Choi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled “The Sanitary Imagination: Narrative and the Urban Condition in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” which examines discourses of connection, distant causality, and circulation within representations of the city.

Lauren M. E. Goodlad is the author of a forthcoming volume on Victorian literature and the Victorian state. She has recently joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as Assistant Professor of English.

Edward H. Cohen, Professor of English at Rollins College, has edited the annual “Victorian Bibliography” since 1985. He is currently completing a census of Hopkins’s manuscript poems. His most recent publication is an essay in Studies in English and Comparative Literature on identity and autobiography in Henley’s hospital poems.

Andrea Broomfield is currently completing a study of Victorian women’s role in the development of mainstream journalism from 1865–1910. She is co-editor with Sally Mitchell of Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology (Garland, 1996) and has published articles on Eliza Lynn Linton and other Victorian women journalists. She is a member of the faculty of Johnson County Community College as Assistant Professor of English.

Cheryl M. Cassidy serves on the Written Communication faculty in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. Her interests include the nineteenth-century women’s missionary movement, and American missionary journals. Her current research focuses on analyzing letters from female missionaries to home journals, as well as the obituaries of female missionaries and converts.

Christopher C. Dahl is President and Professor of English at SUNY-Geneseo. He has published articles on Dickens and autobiographical tradition in the Stephen family and is the author of Louis Auchincloss (Ungar, 1986). A contributor to the Victorian Bibliography since 1979, he is a former president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.

Maria H. Frawley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She is the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England (1994) and of Anne Brontë (1996). Currently an NEH fellow, she is completing a book on the culture of invalidism in nineteenth-century England and is preparing an edition of Harriet Martineau’s Life in the Sickroom for publication by Broadview Press. [End Page 843]

Anthony Giffone is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at SUNY-Farmingdale.

Anne L. Horn most recently served as Assistant Visiting Professor of Writing in the English Department at Temple University.

Edward S. Lauterbach is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University. His interests include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Sherlock Holmes stories.

William H. Scheuerle, Professor of English and Dean Emeritus at the University of South Florida, is editor of Victorian Periodicals Review and has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on Victorian periodicals and Victorian and Edwardian figures such as Henry Kingsley, Charles Dickens, and Alfred Austin.

Richard C. Tobias is working on a critical study of the Victorian novelist Rhoda Broughton, l840–l920. He has a developing interest in the Celtic fringe, writers from Cornwall, Isle of Man, and Ireland (especially Ascendancy). His most recent essay is on Emily Lawless (l845–1913) for the “Dictionary of Literary Biography: Edwardian Women Poets.”

Christine Tootill serves as Learning Resource Centre Manager for the Learning and Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University.

James Eli Adams, who with this number steps down as co-editor of Victorian Studies, teaches at Cornell University. He is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (1995) and, most recently, of an introduction to a forthcoming collection of essays on Walter Pater, and a review essay, “Recent Work in the Nineteenth Century,” forthcoming in Studies in English Literature. He is currently at work on A History of Victorian Literature commissioned by Blackwell.

Flavia Alaya, professor (emerita) of cultural history at Ramapo College, typically migrates across the boundaries between politics and literature, as with her work on the Brownings in Risorgimento Italy. Her recent memoir, Under the Rose (Feminist Press, 1999), takes on the politics (and curiously operatic art) of personal secrecy. She is now working on a historical...

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