Biographies
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Geoffrey Belknap is a postdoctoral researcher in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. His specialties include the history of science, photography, periodicals, and visual culture.
Janis Dawson has published articles on Meade, nineteenth-century girls' books and magazines, eighteenth-century juvenile periodicals, and children's literature. She is currently working on a critical edition of Meade's crime fiction.
Ruth P. Feingold is Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland and specializes in the study of empire and its aftermath. Her publications include essays on British and New Zealand literature and film, the coronation of Elizabeth II, and twentieth-century Australian literary nationalism.
Clare Horrocks is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, and Communication at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is the convenor of the Victorian Print and Popular Culture seminar series. She has published widely on Punch and the Victorian periodical press, including an article with Gary Simons in Victorians Journal (Winter 2011): "From Paris to Punch: William Makepeace Thackeray and a New Era in Social Satire."
Kristin N. Huston is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she teaches composition and literature classes. Her dissertation focuses on the study of representations of Creole women in nineteenth-century periodicals published in Jamaica and Louisiana. She is co-editor of Transatlantic Sensations (Ashgate, 2012). [End Page 584]
Priti Joshi is Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literatures and nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She has published essays on Chadwick, Dickens, the Brontës, Frances Trollope, Henry Mayhew, masculinity, and empire, and is currently working on a book about an English-language newspaper published in India in the mid-nineteenth century.
Lindsy Lawrence is Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. She teaches a variety of courses on nineteenth-century British literature, with special attention to publication history, gender roles, and the conventions of serial fiction. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining how domestic serials functioned as part of the editorial voice of the nineteenth-century family literary magazine. She is co-director of the Periodical Poetry Index.
Kathleen McCormack, Professor of English at Florida International University, specializes in the life and work of George Eliot (Marian Evans). She has published many articles and has authored three books: George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England, George Eliot's English Travels: Composite Characters and Coded Communications, and George Eliot in Society: Travels Abroad and Sundays at the Priory.
Sally Mitchell is Emerita Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. She attended her first RSVP conference in 1974 and published her first essay (a book review) in the March 1975 issue of Victorian Periodicals Newsletter—both before finishing her DPhil in 1977. Her most recent book is Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (2004).
Amanda Nydegger is an independent scholar whose work centers on Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances and the Victorian sensation novel. She has presented on Reade at a number of conferences, including NAVSA, RSVP, and MMLA.
Shale Preston is an honorary research fellow in the English department at Macquarie University. Her research examines the representation of difference in Charles Dickens's fiction through the lens of gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Dickens and the Despised Mother: A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels (McFarland, 2013).
LeeAnne M. Richardson is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses in Victorian and Edwardian [End Page 585] literature and culture. She is author of New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Late-Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire (2006); her research centers on late-century writers, negotiations of power, and literary forms.
William Scheuerle is Professor Emeritus of English and Dean Emeritus at the University of South Florida, Tampa. His recent book publications are Henry Kingsley Revisited (2010), George Baxter: The First Color Printing from Meal Plate and Wood Blocks (2011), and Croquet and Its Influence on Victorian Society (2013).
Richard Scully is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at...
