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  • Contributors

Nathan K. Hensley (nh283@georgetown.edu) is assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. His work has appeared in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, RaVoN: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Victorian Studies, and a collection, The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century (2009). He is currently completing a book entitled “Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty.”

Sebastian Lecourt (sebastian.lecourt@gmail.com) recently completed a PhD at Yale University and is currently an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the English Department at Rutgers University. His research explores the relationship between literature, religion, and secularization in nineteenth-century Britain. His work has appeared in Victorian Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture, and he is currently revising a manuscript about Victorian liberal aesthetics and the anthropology of religion.

David Russell (dvdrussell7@gmail.com) obtained his PhD in English from Princeton University in 2011. His work has been supported by Harvard University’s Mahindra Center for the Humanities and the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities. He has published in ELH and Raritan and is completing a book on tact, aesthetic liberalism, and the essay form. He recently joined the Department of English at King’s College London.

Susan Zieger (susan.zieger@ucr.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature (2008). Her article in this issue is drawn from her current project, “Media Addiction, Literature, and Modernity.”

Peter Atkins (p.j.atkins@durham.ac.uk) is Professor of Geography at Durham University. Most of Atkins’s research has been on nineteenth- and twentieth-century food history, and he has also published on the history of zoonotic disease. He has authored Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk, Science and the Law (2010) and edited Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories (2012). Atkins is Senior Vice President of the International Commission for Research on European Food History.

Tim Barringer (timothy.barringer@yale.edu) is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. His books include Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (2005) and Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1998). He was co-curator of the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (2012–14). He is currently completing “Broken Pastoral: Art and Music in Britain, Gothic Revival to Punk Rock.” [End Page 185]

Lauren Benton (lauren.benton@nyu.edu) is Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Law at New York University. Her publications include Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500–1850 (edited with Richard J. Ross, 2013), A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900 (2010), and Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900 (2002).

Antoinette Burton (aburton@illinois.edu) is Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is at work on a book about resistance in the Victorian Empire.

Mark Casson (m.c.casson@reading.ac.uk) is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Institutional Performance at the University of Reading. He is the author of The World’s First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain (2009), and is currently researching the impact of uK railways on local population growth, in conjunction with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population.

Mary Jean Corbett (corbetmj@miamioh.edu) is Professor of English and affiliate of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the author of Representing Femininity (1992), Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870 (2000), and Family Likeness (2008). An essay entitled “No Second Friend? Perpetual Maidenhood and Second Marriage in In Memoriam” is forthcoming in ELH.

Martin Danahay (mdanahay@brocku.ca) is Professor of English at Brock University and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity (2005) and co-editor with Deborah Denenholz Morse of Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture (2007). He has...

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