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Florence S. Boos, a professor of English at the University of Iowa, has written monographs on the works of Dante G. Rossetti and William Morris, and edited Morris's Socialist Diary, his Earthly Paradise, and Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology. She is also the general editor of the virtual Morris Edition (http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu) and has recently completed a manuscript devoted to Morris' early poems and essays.

Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, has frequently published studies on Nineties British authors. He is at work on an edition of Ella D'Arcy's correspondence, and one addressing John Lane's notorious "Keynotes Series" books. His latest publication on a Victorian poet is a critique of laughter in Tennyson's Idylls of the King (Journal of the Georgia Philological Association [2009]) and his latest edited book, Poe in His Own Time (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2010).

Devon Fisher is an Assistant Professor of English at Lenoir Rhyne University. His previous articles have been published in Christianity & Literature, Nineteenth Century Prose, and the Victorians Institute Journal. He has recently completed a book length manuscript titled "The Saints of Victorian Conservatism," and he hopes soon to be underway on his next project, a study of orphans and adoption in Victorian literature.

Frank Fennell is Professor of English and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. He is author or editor of six books, primarily on Victorian literature, including Rereading Hopkins: Selected New Essays, and he has published numerous articles, especially on Hopkins. His current project is a book on Hopkins and his readers.

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, is the author most recently of Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (2005), and The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010), which approaches poetry in the context of print culture. She contributed "Inventing Poetry and Pictorialism in Once a Week: A Magazine of Visual Effects" to the special issue of Victorian Poetry devoted to the book arts, ed. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Spring 2010), and will also contribute to the forthcoming special issue of Victorian Poetry on prosody. [End Page 437]

Anthony Kearney taught formerly at St Martin's College Lancaster, UK, and La Trobe University, Australia. He has written several articles on late nineteenth-century literary topics and a biographical study of John Churton Collins (Edinburgh, 1986).

Yisrael Levin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the editor of A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work (Ashgate 2010), and is the co-editor of Victorian Poetry's special issue on Victorian prosody (Winter 2011). He has published articles on Swinburne in journals such Victorian Poetry and Victorian Review. His current project focuses on prosody and religion in Victorian poetry.

Clinton Machann is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Among his publications are The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994), The Essential Matthew Arnold: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Sources (1993), Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life (1998), and Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading (2010).

Britta Martens is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England in Bristol and review editor of the Browning Society Notes. Her research interests lie mainly in Robert Browning's poetics and cross-cultural aspects of Victorian writing about Europe. She is currently completing a monograph on Browning's poetics in relation to the Romantic legacy.

Francis O'Gorman is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He is currently editing Ruskin's Praeterita for Oxford University Press.

Andrew Stauffer is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he also directs the digital initiative NINES (www.nines.org). He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (2005), and has edited works by H. Rider Haggard and (with James Loucks) Robert Browning.

Marjorie Stone, Professor of English, Dalhousie University, Canada, has recently co-edited (with Beverly Taylor) Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Selected, Annotated, Critical Edition, forthcoming from Broadview Press. She...

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