Biographies
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Anne DeWitt completed a Ph.D. in English at Yale University last year and is currently a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program. She is working on a book project about the moral and social consequences of scientific thinking in Victorian fiction, and she has published on Thomas Hardy.
Emma Liggins is Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published articles on Victorian sensation fiction, the New Woman and women's magazines in Journal of Victorian Culture, Literature & History, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and a monograph George Gissing, the Working Woman and Urban Culture (Ashgate 2006). She is currently researching representations of the spinster in women's fiction and magazines, 1850-1950.
Elizabeth Lorang is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is project manager and senior assistant editor of The Walt Whitman Archive, for which she helped edit, with Susan Belasco, Walt Whitman's Poems in Periodicals. She currently holds a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project, "American Newspaper Poetry from the Rise of the Penny Press to the New Journalism."
Brian Maidment is Research Professor in the History of Print Culture at Salford University. He was an Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism and wrote many of the entries on illustrators and illustration. He has written widely on Victorian mass circulation literature. His most recent book was Dusty Bob—A Cultural History of Dustmen 1780-1870 (Manchester University Press 2007), and he is just completing another book for Manchester U.P. called Comedy, Caricature [End Page 91] and the Social Order 1820-1850. Professor Maidment will be presenting the Michael Wolff Lecture at this year's RSVP conference at Yale.
Andrew Nash is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of Authorship, Writing, and Publishing at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of Kailyard and Scottish Literature (2007), editor of The Culture of Collected Editions (2003) and has written essays on the publishing history of various Victorian authors, including Thomas Hardy, Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. He is currently working on a book entitled Grub Street Authors and the Fiction Market, 1870-1914.
Sarah Nash is teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after receiving her Ph.D. in English Literature at New York University. She is currently working on a book manuscript, titled "From Political to Personal: The Changing 'Function of Criticism' in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals," which explores the relationship between nineteenth-century critical practices and the medium of periodical publication.
Thomas J. Tobin is a Senior Faculty member of the College of Media Arts and Technology at DeVry University, specializing in distance learning, course design, and supporting disabled learners. Tom was the RSVP webmaster 2002-2007 and Membership Chair 2003-2007. He has published Pre-Raphaelitism in the Nineteenth-Century Press (ELS, 2002) and edited the collection Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism (SUNY, 2004). "Spreading Socialist Ideals through the William Morris Society Web Site" is forthcoming in William Morris in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2010).
Larry Uffelman, Professor Emeritus of English, is a long-time member of RSVP. He specializes in Victorian English literature, especially in periodicals bibliography and in the fiction and careers of Charles Kingsley and Elizabeth Gaskell. He continues to contribute to the checklist of periodicals scholarship published in VPR.
Joanne Wilkes is Associate Professor in English at the University of Auckland. She edited Mary Barton for Pickering & Chatto (2005), is currently editing Margaret Oliphant's periodical criticism, and has a monograph forthcoming from Ashgate on how nineteenth-century women critics responded to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. [End Page 92]
