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  • Contributors

Arianne Chernock (chernock@bu.edu) is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Her first book, Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism, was published by Stanford University Press in 2010. She is now at work on a book provisionally titled The Queen and I: The Right to Reign and the Rights of Women in Victorian Britain, 1789–1901.

John Kucich (jkucich@rci.rutgers.edu) is Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot (1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (2007). He has also written numerous essays on Victorian literature and culture.

Krista Lysack (klysack@uwo.ca) is Assistant Professor of English at King’s University College at Western University (Canada). Her first book, Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing, appeared in 2008. She is currently working on a book manuscript about interval reading, timekeeping, and attention in Victorian devotional poetry and popular print.

Josephine McDonagh (josephine.mcdonagh@kcl.ac.uk) is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature in the department of English at King’s College London. Her publications include De Quincey’s Disciplines (1994), George Eliot (1997), Child Murder and British Culture 1720–1900 (2003), and the co-edited volume Charles Dickens and the French Revolution (2009). She is Network Director of the “Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World” international research network.

James C. Albisetti (jcalbi01@email.uky.edu) has served as President of the History of Education Society (USA) and as a two-term member of the Executive Committee of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. Author of two books and thirty-six articles or chapters, he recently co–edited, with Joyce Goodman and Rebecca Rogers, Girls’ Secondary Education in the Western World (2010).

Isobel Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of English and Geoffrey Tillotson Chair at Birkbeck, University of London. Her latest book is Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880 (2008). She is currently revising her Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Politics (1993).

Peter Bailey (baileypc@indiana.edu) is Emeritus Professor of History at University of Manitoba and Visiting Professor at Indiana University. Author of Leisure and Class in [End Page 575] Victorian England (1978, 2006) and Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City (1998), he is completing a history of the music hall and variety stage and is working on Americanization in Britain before 1914.

Matthew Beaumont (m.beaumont@ucl.ac.uk) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England, 1870–1900 (2005) and The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle (2012). He is currently writing a history of nightwalking in cities since the eighteenth century.

Amy Billone (abillone@utk.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her book Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (2007) is the only extended study about nineteenth-century female sonneteers. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Her scholarly and creative work appears in major academic and literary journals.

George E. Boulukos (boulukos@siu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and the author of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (2008). His current projects include a history of histories of the novel, an edition of the unpublished memoirs of Thomas Hammond (an eighteenth-century stableboy and itinerant trick rider), and a study of human rights in the eighteenth-century black Atlantic.

Jason Boyd (jason.boyd@ryerson.ca) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University. His “Staging the Page: Visibility and Invisibility in Oscar Wilde’s Salome” was published in Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 35 (2008). He is currently working on a digital project to facilitate the study of the genealogy of the biographical texts that comprise pre-1945 Wilde biography.

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