Contributors
- Contributors
Benjamin Cannon (benjamin_cannon@berkeley.edu) is completing a PhD in English at U.C. Berkeley. His dissertation, “Disappearing Walls: Architecture and Literature in Victorian Britain,” uses Victorian architecture theory to rethink novelists’ relationship to material history during the period.
Abigail Joseph (akjoseph@gmail.com) completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2012. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between homosexuality and material culture in nineteenth-century England. Her essay on Victorian drag and fashion will appear in the collection Crossings in Text and Textile, forthcoming in 2014. She teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.
Matthew Sussman (sussman@post.harvard.edu) is a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University, where he also completed his PhD. This fall, he will join the faculty of the Department of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. His article on Anthony Trollope recently appeared in Studies in English Literature, and essays on Henry James are forthcoming in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction and Arizona Quarterly. He is currently completing a book manuscript on virtues of style in nineteenth-century literature, moral philosophy, and criticism.
Timothy Alborn (timothy.alborn@lehman.cuny.edu) is Professor of History at Lehman College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has published widely on Victorian business, most recently Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914 (2009). His current research is on the cultural and financial history of gold in Great Britain between 1780 and 1850.
David Arnold (d.arnold@warwick.ac.uk) is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Among his principal publications are Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993), Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (2000), and Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity (2013). His current work is on poisons and pollution in India.
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, new edition 2012). He is currently completing a book, “Broken Pastoral: Art and Music in Britain,” and is co-curator of Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (2012–14). [End Page 375]
Anna Barton (a.j.barton@sheffield.ac.uk) is Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. She has published work on a range of Victorian poets, including Alfred Tennyson, Arthur Hugh Clough, Edward FitzGerald, and Edward Lear.
Stewart J. Brown (s.j.brown@ed.ac.uk) is Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth in Scotland (1982), The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801–46 (2002), and Providence and Empire: Religion, Politics and Society in the United Kingdom, 1815–1914 (2008).
Rachel Sagner Buurma (rbuurma1@swarthmore.edu) is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. She is currently working on a project about the research practices of Victorian novelists. With Laura Heffernan, she is co-authoring a new disciplinary history of English literature. Articles related to this project have recently appeared in Representations, Victorian Studies, and New Literary History.
Barbara Caine (barbara.caine@sydney.edu.au) is Professor of History and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include From Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (2005) and Biography and History (2010). She is currently working on a history of autobiography.
Susan P. Casteras (casteras@uw.edu) is Chair and Professor of Art History at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of several dozen essays, reviews, and books on Victorian art and served for nearly two decades as Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art. Her current research includes a long-term project on Victorian religious painting and a book on the Pre-Raphaelitization of popular culture in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Pratik Chakrabarti (p.chakrabarti@kent.ac.uk) is Reader in History at the University...
