Biographies
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Andrea Broomfield is Professor of English at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS. She specializes in culinary history and is author of Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (2007). She is currently writing a history of dining aboard the steamship, 1840–1914. Her most recent work includes an article in Gastronomica, “The Night the Good Ship Went Down: Three Meals aboard the Titanic” (2009) and “Food and Cooking in Scotland” for Food Cultures of the World (2011). She is co-editor with Sally Mitchell of Prose By Victorian Women: An Anthology (1996) and has written several article and book chapters on Victorian-era journalism.
Susan Civale is a PhD student in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her doctoral project examines the impact of the publication of life writing on the nineteenth-century reception of four women writers: Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Mary Robinson.
Hugh Craig directs the Humanities Research Institute and the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle. He has published books and articles on Renaissance literary figures such as Philip Sidney, John Harington and Ben Jonson. Currently he works in computational stylistics. With Arthur F. Kinney he edited Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (2009).
John Drew is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Buckingham, UK, and is currently directing on an open-access online edition of Dickens’s weekly journals (1850–70), under construction at www.djo.org.uk. He has published and co-edited books and articles relating to Dickens’s work as a journalist.
Leslie Howsam is University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Windsor in Canada. Her latest book is Past into Print: the Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950 (2009). Her current research is “Public History in Print Culture,” which involves searching for accounts of the past in the Victorian periodical press.
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 (2010). She is currently completing, with Sharon Harris (University of Connecticut), a three-volume edition of feminist writing from Sappho to the present. She has begun a new project on Victorian women writers and Germany in the context of female cosmopolitanism, study abroad, and a transnational women’s literary tradition.
Dallas Liddle is Associate Professor of English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN. His publications include Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain (2009) and articles in Victorian Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, and Media History. His current book project, supported by a 2010 NEH Summer Stipend, studies whether genre forms such as the novel and newspaper leading article may have developed in some of the same ways as technologies.
Solveig Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Publishing & Printing Arts Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She is the author of a number of articles on Victorian publishing history and the editor of A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (2003).
Russell Wyland is Deputy Director of Research at the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current research focuses on the relationship between the established English universities and the emerging periodical press in the early nineteenth century. He was awarded the VanArsdel Prize by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals in 2000.
