Contributors
- Contributors
Carolyn Betensky is assistant professor of English and Honors and the associate director of the Program in the Human Sciences at George Washington University. She is currently completing a book titled Bourgeois Compassion: The Cultural Work of Emotion in the Victorian Social-Problem Novel.
Christopher Castiglia is associate professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst and is currently completing Interior States: the Romance of Reform and the Inner Life of a Nation.
Holger Henke is senior fellow of the Caribbean Research Center (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) and a Rockefeller fellow of City College of New York's IRADAC. He is assistant editor of Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora. His most recent book is Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean.
Andrew Knighton is a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His work explores deployments of the concept of idleness in the literature and visual arts of nineteenth-century America.
Brian McKenna is a member of Wolfson College, Oxford, and of the English faculty at the University of Oxford; he is also an editor at Elsevier. The research embodied in this essay was carried out when he was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow and junior research fellow at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 1997. He has been a business and technology journalist since 1997.
Christopher Reed is associate professor and chair of the Art Department at Lake Forest College in Illinois. His books are A Roger Fry Reader and Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture. He is currently completing a book on interior spaces designed by the artists of the Bloomsbury group. [End Page 225]
Stephen A. Ross is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria. He has published on Joseph Conrad, Milan Kundera, and Ernest Buckler, and recently won the Joseph Conrad Society (USA)'s Young Scholar Award. His book, Conrad and Empire, is forthcoming.
S. Shankar is author of the novel A Map of Where I Live and the volume of criticism Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text. His most recent book is the coedited anthology Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Michelle Stewart is assistant professor of cinema studies and literature at SUNY-Purchase College.
Charlotte Sussman is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is author of Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833, as well as articles on Aphra Behn, Charlotte Smith, Mary Shelley, and Walter Scott, among others. This article is drawn from her current book project, "Remembering the Population: British Literature in an Age of Mass Migration." [End Page 226]
