Contributors
- Contributors
Joseph Bristow is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and an editor (with Ruth Livesey and Helen Rogers) of the Journal of Victorian Culture. His most recent books are Sexuality (second edition, 2010) and a forthcoming edited collection The Wilde Archive: Traditions, Histories, Resources. Currently, he is completing a study of Victorian poetry and sexual desire.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, Professor and Chair of the English Department of the University of Kansas, is the author of The Madwoman Can't Speak, Or Why Insanity is Not Subversive (1998) and On Latinidad: U. S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity (2007).
Susan Edmunds is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University and the author of two books: Out of Line: History, Psychoanalysis and Montage in H. D.'s Long Poems (1994) and Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U. S. Welfare State (2008).
Amy Elkins received her Master of Arts in English from the University of Virginia and is now a doctoral student in the Department of English at Emory University. Her current research focuses on women in the transatlantic print culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in addition to the intersections of literature, visual art, and material culture.
Cathryn Halverson is the author of Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West (2004). Currently, she is completing a study entitled "Playing House in the American West: Western Women's Literary Autobiography, 1840-1980."
Tamara Harvey is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. She is author of Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 (2008) and co-editor of Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights (2010) and George Washington's South (2004).
Rosemary Joyce graduated with her doctorate in English from the University of Sussex. Her dissertation examined the works of Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis, and she currently works as an independent scholar whose research focuses on modernist writers and art. [End Page 225]
Laurie Langbauer, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, writes about nineteenth-century British women writers. Her books Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (1990) and Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850-1930 (1999) consider romance and the everyday. She is at work now on two projects: one on child authors and another on children's literature.
Phyllis Lassner is Professor at the Crown Center for Jewish Studies and in the Gender Studies and Writing Programs at Northwestern University. She is the author of British Women Writers of World War II (1998), Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire (2004), two books on Elizabeth Bowen, and most recently, Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust (2008). In addition to articles on interwar and wartime women writers, she is co-editor of the collections Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2008) and Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (2010). She has also edited and written introductions to memoirs by women Holocaust survivors: Ava Schieber's Soundless Roar (2002) and Karen Gershon's A Tempered Wind (2010).
Estella Lauter is Professor Emerita in English from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She authored Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women (1984) and published two chapbooks of poems in 2007 and 2008 for the New Women's Voices Series.
Bronwen Levy is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland in Australia. She has published widely on women's writing and feminist literary and cultural theory with a focus on the twentieth century and Australia. Her most recent article on the fiction of Elizabeth Jolley, "Jolley's Women," appeared in Australian Literary Studies (2009).
Paula Mcdowell is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace (1998) and Elinor James: Printed Writings (2005). Her current book project, Fugitive Voices: Print Commerce and the Invention of the Oral in Eighteenth-Century Britain, is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press; it examines the oral...
