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  • Contributors

Suzanne Bailey is Professor of English at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. She is the author of Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry (2010) and has published on a range of issues in Victorian intellectual history in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Women’s Writing, and other journals. Her most recent work appears in Mosaic and the University of Toronto Quarterly.

Florence S. Boos is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the general editor of the William Morris Archive and author/editor of several books on working-class women poets, the Pre-Raphaelites, and William Morris, most recently the forthcoming The Early Writings of William Morris (Ohio State UP).

Frank Fennell is Professor of English and Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. He is author or editor of six books, primarily on Victorian literature, including Rereading Hopkins: Selected New Essays, and he has published numerous articles, especially on Hopkins. His current project is a book on Hopkins and his readers.

Benjamin F. Fisher, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Mississippi, has published many studies on Victorian and American topics. He is currently working on an edition of Ella D’Arcy’s correspondence.

Karen Hadley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Her sustaining concern has been in the politics of time in the poetry of William Wordsworth, though she also has articles forthcoming on Blake’s Marygold in Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and on the aesthetics of ugliness in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She has published in English Literary History, Studies in English Literature, Modern Philology, and elsewhere.

Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University.

Clinton Machann is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Among his publications are The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994), The Essential Matthew Arnold: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Sources (1993), Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life (1998), and Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading (2010). [End Page 589]

Rosemarie Morgan taught at Yale University (1985–2000) and currently lectures at international conferences. She is President of The Thomas Hardy Association, Vice President of The Thomas Hardy Society, author of Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (1988), Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1999), Student Companion to Thomas Hardy (2006), Ed., Far From the Madding Crowd (2000) and is editor of the biannual Hardy Review. She has also published on Toni Morrison, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Chesnut, and American Women Frontier Writers.

Michelle Niemann is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Sawyer Seminar on the Environmental Humanities at University of California, Los Angeles. In August 2014, she earned her PhD in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on a book project, titled “Organic Forming: Poetry, Ecology, Agriculture,” about organic metaphors in twentieth century American poetry and in the organic farming movement.

Albert D. Pionke is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England (2004) and The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals: Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838–1877 (2013) as well as the co-editor of Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment (2010).

Beverly Taylor, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English & Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, has coedited the Pickering and Chatto complete scholarly edition of Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2010) and with Marjorie Stone has coedited a Broadview edition of EBB’s poems and a special bicentenary issue of Victorian Poetry commemorating the poet’s birth (2006). She is writing a critical study of the poet.

Benedick Turner is Associate Professor of English at St. Joseph’s College, New York, where he teaches classical, medieval, and Victorian literature. His research interests include Arthurian literature, Henry James, Sherlock Holmes, and gender. [End Page 590]

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