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Veronica Alfano (veronica.alfano@gmail.com) is an Instructor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She is the author of several articles and book chapters on Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, and A. E. Housman, and is co-editor with Andrew Stauffer of an essay collection published by Palgrave Macmillan called Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies (2015). Her monograph-in-progress is titled “The Lyric in Victorian Memory.”

Tariq Omar Ali (toali@illinois.edu) is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Jute and the Bengal Delta: A Local History of Global Capital, 1850s to 1950s.”

Rosemarie Bodenheimer (bodenhei@bc.edu) is Professor Emerita at Boston College. She is the author of The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction (1994). Her other books and articles about Victorian novels and novelists include a forthcoming essay on George Eliot’s Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

Patrick Brantlinger (brantli@indiana.edu) is James Rudy Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, former editor of Victorian Studies, and is currently writing a sequel to States of Emergency (2013) to be called “Barbed Wire: Capitalism and Enclosures.”

Aviva Briefel (abriefel@bowdoin.edu) is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2006) and co-editor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011). Her most recent book is The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (2015). She is currently at work on a project titled “Impossible Ghosts: Material Culture at the Limits of Evidence.”

Jamie L. Bronstein (jbronste@nmsu.edu) is Professor of British and U.S. History at New Mexico State University. She is the co-author of Empire, State, and Society: Britain since 1830 (2012), the author of Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America forthcoming from Praeger, and is currently working on a history of happiness in nineteenth-century Britain.

Siobhan Carroll (sicarrol@udel.edu) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Delaware. Her book, An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750–1850, was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Anna Clark (clark106@umn.edu) is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her works include The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995) and Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004). Her current [End Page 186] projects include “Secret Lives: An Alternative History of the Self” and “Rage against the Machine: Individual Rights in the British Empire.”

Jessica P. Clark (jclark3@brocku.ca) is Assistant Professor of History at Brock University. She is currently completing a manuscript on the Victorian beauty and grooming industries.

Laura Green (la.green@neu.edu) is Professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author most recently of Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga (2012). She is currently working on an article about the unpublished diaries of Constance Maynard and on a book, “Third Wave Realism,” about contemporary realist fiction.

Kate Flint (kflint@usc.edu) is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. Author of The Woman Reader 1837–1914 (1993), The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (2000) and The Transatlantic Indian 1776–1930 (2009), she is completing a cultural history of flash photography called “Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination,” and is also working on the interdisciplinary appeal of ordinariness.

Laura E. Franey (franele@millsaps.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Millsaps College. She is the author of Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence (2003) and coeditor of an annotated edition of Yone Noguchi’s 1902 novel The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (2007). She recently published an article on marriage and somatic terror in the novels of Thomas Hardy, part of her current book project on gender, mobility, and transportation in Victorian...

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