Contributors
- Contributors
James Belich (James.Belich@vuw.ac.nz) is currently Research Professor of History at the Stout Research Center, Victoria University of Wellington. His previous books, all award winners, include a two-volume history of New Zealand—Making Peoples and Paradise Reforged—and The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict, which won the Trevor Reese Prize in Commonwealth History in 1988 and was later made into a television documentary series.
Peter J. Cain (P.J.Cain@shu.ac.uk) was Research Professor in History at Sheffield Hallam University from 1995 to 2008. He is the author, with A. G. Hopkins, of British Imperialism 1688-2000 (2nd ed. 2001) and Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism and Finance, 1887-1938 (2001). He is now researching and writing on British moral justifications of empire in the Victorian and Edwardian period.
Conor Creaney (conor.creaney@nyu.edu) is currently completing his dissertation in the English Department at New York University, where he also teaches in the Expository Writing Program. His work explores the relationship between the described body in Victorian realism and the frozen body in taxidermy, sculpture, waxworks, and tableaux vivants.
Saree Makdisi (makdisi@humnet.ucla.edu) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is the author of Romantic Imperialism (1998), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (2003), and Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008). He is also the Editor of Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Dror Wahrman (dwahrman@indiana.edu) is Ruth N. Halls Professor of History at Indiana University. His books include The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2004) and the forthcoming The Illusionist: A Tale of Art and Obsession at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age (Oxford UP, 2012).
Michelle Weinroth (mweinroth@rogers.com) teaches English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of Reclaiming William Morris: Englishness, Sublimity, and the Rhetoric of Dissent (1996). In 2008 she edited a special issue on William Morris in AE: Canadian Aesthetics Journal. She is currently co-editing a book on William Morris's radicalism and aesthetics.
Aaron Worth (worth@bu.edu) is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He is writing a book provisionally entitled Imperial Media: Colonial and Information Systems in the British Literary Imagination. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Studies in American Fiction, Victorian Poetry, and Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. [End Page 191]
Jacqueline deVries (devries@augsburg.edu), Associate Professor of History at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, is co-editor (with Sue Morgan) of Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Modern Britain, 1800-1940 (2010).
Christopher Ferguson (cjf0006@auburn.edu) is Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University. He is currently writing a study of urbanization and national identity, tentatively entitled Britain's Urban Revolution, 1780-1860.
Ross G. Forman (ellrgf@nus.edu.sg) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is a specialist in imperialism and in the history of sexuality. His book, China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. His essay, "Nineteenth-century Beefs: Britons and the Brazilian Stage," recently appeared in Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Sheridan Gilley (sheridan.gilley@talktalk.net) is Emeritus Reader in Theology at Durham University. His latest publication is the fourth volume of his series, co-edited with Roger Swift, on the Irish in Victorian Britain. He is the current President of the Ecclesiastical History Society; his presidential address was on the Irish novelist Canon Patrick Augstine Sheehan and is to be published in Studies in Church History.
Lisa Gitelman (gitelman@nyu.edu) is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006).
Jan Golinski (jan.golinski@unh.edu) is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire, where he currently chairs the Department of History. He is the author of Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (revised edition, 2005) and British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (2007...
