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  • Contributors

Ross Alloway is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh and a postgraduate researcher at the Centre for the History of the Book in Edinburgh. His current interests include the production and marketing of twentieth-century literary criticism and the politics of reputation.

Rebecca Rego Barry spent nearly three years in the book publishing business before beginning graduate study. She received her M.A. in Book History from Drew University and is currently the Preservation and Archives Assistant at the Drew University Library.

Hortensia Calvo has a Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University and is currently Doris Stone Director of the Latin American Library at Tulane University. She has published essays on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spanish American writings, and is working on a study of the seventeenth-century Mexican playwright and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Jason Camlot is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. His recent publications include articles on J. S. Mill, John Ruskin, and American "talk" poet David Antin, as well as a collection of poems, The Animal Library (DC Books, 2000). His current research project is tentatively entitled "Phonopoetics: Sound Recording and the Literary Arts." [End Page 307]

Paul Eggert runs the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre and is head of the School of Language, Literature and Communication at the University of New South Wales at ADFA in Canberra. He edited two critical editions in the Cambridge Works of D. H. Lawrence. He is general editor of the Academy Editions of Australian Literature, a series of critical editions in which he co-edited Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn. In the Cambridge Works of Joseph Conrad series he is co-editing Under Western Eyes. He has published widely in the area of editorial theory and its application to other kinds of arguably editorial activity, such as the restoration of historic buildings and paintings.

David Finkelstein is Professor of Media and Print Culture at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, with research interests in media culture and book history. He is vice president of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, a member of the board of directors of SHARP, and co-director of SAPPHIRE, the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records. He is the author of The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002) and co-editor of several essay collections on print culture, including The Book History Reader (Routledge, 2001) and Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Macmillan, 2001).

Anindita Ghosh is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. Her published articles deal with colonial Bengal, focusing on the commercial vernacular book market, the reception of print, the nationalist public stage, print in performance, and print languages and the making of colonial identity. She is now preparing a book-length study of nineteenth-century Bengali print cultures.

Edward Jacobs is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Accidental Migrations: An Archeology of Gothic Discourse (Bucknell University Press, 2000) and articles on eighteenth-century British publishing, book history, and early Victorian street culture. He is currently co-editing William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Jack Sheppard (1839) for Broadview Press.

Graham Law and Norimasa Morita are both Professors in English Studies at Waseda University, where they teach courses on periodical and film history. They are working together on a monograph entitled Novels in Newspapers: An International History, scheduled for publication in 2005 by the University of Toronto Press in its Studies in Book and Print Culture series. [End Page 308]

Andrew Nash is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading. He was formerly AHRB Institutional Research Fellow at Reading and at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. He has published essays on various aspects of Scottish literature, Victorian and twentieth-century publishing history, and the work of J. M. Barrie. He has recently edited a collection of essays entitled The Culture of Collected Editions and is writing a book on authors and publishers from 1870 to 1939.

David Shneer is Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. He has...

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