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  • Contributors

Shelley S. Armitage is Professor of American literature and culture at University of Texas at El Paso, where she has also held the Dorrance Roderick Chair in English. She has published on women's photography and illustration in the American West and is at work on a memoir about the Canadian River breaks in the Texas panhandle.

Brigitte Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is General Series Editor of New England in the World (University of New Hampshire Press). She has published articles on nineteenth-century writers from Washington Irving to Edith Wharton in edited collections and in such journals as American Literary History, American Literature, and ESQ. Her research focuses on travel and urban writing. She has coedited two volumes of essays: Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain with Beth L. Lueck and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach (2012) and Margaret Fuller and Her Circles with Katheryn P. Viens and Conrad Edick Wright, which will appear in 2013.

Jennie Batchelor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature (2005), Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 (2010), and various chapters and articles on women's writing and material culture in the long eighteenth century. She is currently working on a book about women's periodicals from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century provisionally entitled "Guilty and Other Pleasures: Women's Periodicals in the Romantic Era."

Jamie Libby Boyle is an Adjunct Instructor in the English Department at the University of South Carolina. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Acting Alone: Solo Female Performers, Their American Audiences, and Embodiment."

Geneviève Brassard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Portland, Oregon, where she teaches Modern British, Irish, and Postcolonial Literatures. She has published articles on Jane Austen, Irene Rathbone, Elizabeth Bowen, May Sinclair, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. She currently serves as co-president of the Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Her current research project centers on the representations of female sexuality in urban spaces in inter-war women's writing. [End Page 495]

Fionnuala Dillane teaches and researches at the School of English, Drama, and Film Studies, University College Dublin. She is coeditor (with Ronan Kelly) of New Voices in Irish Criticism 4 (2003). She has published on nineteenth-century periodical history and culture including, most recently, "Hulda Friederichs, the Interview and the New Woman" in Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle (2012). Her monograph, Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Present, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

C. Alejandra Elenes is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Master of Arts in Social Justice and Human Rights at Arizona State University. Her work centers on the application of borderland theories to the study of the relationship between Chicana culture and knowledge, and how it relates to pedagogy and epistemology. She is the author of Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy (2010). She is coeditor of the anthology Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology (2006), which was the winner of the 2006 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) book critics' award, and of the special issue "Chicana/Mexicana Pedagogies: Consejos, Respeto y Educación in Everyday Life" for the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (2001). She has published articles in feminist and education journals and in a variety of books on Latin American Studies, Chicana/o Cultural Studies, and Education.

Amy Erdman Farrell is the John Curley and Ann Curley Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Yours in Sisterhood: "Ms." Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism (1998) and Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (2011).

Amanda Golden is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She previously served as the Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory University's Fox...

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