Contributors
- Contributors
Patrick Brantlinger, former Editor of Victorian Studies, is James Rudy and College Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. His most recent books are Who Killed Shakespeare? What’s Happened to English since the Radical Sixties and Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930. He is also coeditor, with William Thesing, of the Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel.
Deirdre David has written about intellectual women and Victorian writing about empire. After completion of a cultural biography of the author and actress Fanny Kemble, she will begin work on a study of British culture and society from 1945 to 2000.
Annette R. Federico is Professor of English at James Madison University. She is the author of Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (U of Virginia, 2000).
Having received her doctorate from Cornell University, Sarah J. Heidt is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester. She is writing a book about the transhistorical, intersubjective, and affective dynamics of Victorian auto/biographical writing and reception, focusing on how and why particular editorial practices have created possible auto/biographical selves.
John Kucich is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (1994), Repression in Victorian Fiction (1987) and numerous other books and essays on Victorian literature and culture. He is currently completing a book entitled Masochism in Victorian Colonial Fiction: Omnipotent Fantasy and Social Identity.
Colin Barr completed his PhD in modern European history at the University of Cambridge in 2000, and is now based in the Department of Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His most recent publication is Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845–1865 (2003). He is presently writing a biography of Paul Cullen.
Colene Bentley, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is writing a book called “Constituting Politics,” on identifying political communities in nineteenth-century fiction and political thought.
Christine Bolus-Reichert is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, and has published three articles on the aesthetics and politics of landscape, [End Page 177] including, most recently, “Everyday Eclecticism: William Morris and the Suburban Picturesque” in Nineteenth Century Prose. She is currently revising her history of Victorian eclecticism and planning her next project, “Aestheticism and Everyday Life in Victorian Britain.”
Richard W. Davis is Emeritus Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published Dissent in Politics, 1780–1830 (1971), Political Change and Continuity, 1760–1885: A Buckinghamshire Study (1972), Disraeli (1976), and The English Rothschilds (1983). He is currently working on a new study of the House of Lords from 1811 to 1846.
Dennis Denisoff is Assistant Professor in the English Department and Graduate Programme in Communications and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of the novel The Winter Gardeners (2003), and his study Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850 to 1950. is forthcoming from Palgrave-Macmillan in 2004.
Margot Finn is Reader and Warwick Research Fellow in History at the University of Warwick. She recently published The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914 (2003). Her current project is “Imperial Family Formations, ca. 1780–1860,” a study of the role of the family and material life in British India and Anglo-Indian culture in the heyday of the East India Company.
Alan Fischler is Professor of English at Le Moyne College. He is the author of Modified Rapture: Comedy in W. S. Gilbert’s Savoy Operas (1991), and his current research project, tentatively titled “The Rise of the Fallen Woman,” explores the favorite theme of serious Victorian drama.
Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Author of The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 (1993) and The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (2000), her current research project is entitled “The Transatlantic Indian, 1800–1930.”
Elaine Freedgood is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (2000) and the editor of a volume in the...
