Biographies
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Koenraad Claes is a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University (Belgium), where he is employed on a three-year individual research project, "Narratives of Continuity: Form and Function of the British Conservative Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century," funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Previously he served as a Leverhulme postdoctoral research associate on "The Lady's Magazine: Understanding the Emergence of a Genre," a project at the University of Kent. His first monograph, a history of the little magazine genre in the late Victorian period, is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. He is the managing editor of the open-access journal Authorship.
Constance M. Fulmer is Professor of Victorian Literature at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, in Malibu, California. She holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English Literature. She is working on a biography of Edith J. Simcox and a study of George Eliot's morality. In addition to editing Edith Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (1998) with Margaret E. Barfield, she has published several articles and has made numerous presentations on Simcox and her work.
Margaret J. Godbey is Associate Professor of English at Coker College. In addition to researching nineteenth-century British art and literature, she studies illustration and children's literature. In her role as coordinator of the English education concentration, she recently published an article in the Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina.
John Handel is a PhD student in history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently working on two projects: one focused on the relationship between religion and print culture in the Victorian period and [End Page 441] another investigating the cultural history of stock exchanges and financial markets during the long nineteenth century.
Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. She studies Victorian literature and culture, with special interests in transnationality, gender, women's studies, and historical media (poetry and print culture, periodicals, serial fiction). Her most recent books include The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010); A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (4 vols., 2013), co-edited with Sharon M. Harris; and Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture, co-edited with Sarah R. Robbins (2015). She is the author of several articles on Victorian periodicals which have appeared in VPR.
Kathryn Ledbetter is Professor of English at Texas State University. She is the author of Victorian Needlework (2012); British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Civilization, Beauty, and Poetry (2009); Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (2007); "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (with Terence Hoagwood, 2005); and The Keepsake (1829), a facsimile edition, with introduction and notes (with Terence Hoagwood, 1999). Her articles have appeared in various journals, including Studies in the Literary Imagination, Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and the Journal of Modern Literature. She is a former editor of Victorian Periodicals Review.
Jordan Osterman is a writer and editor at the University of St. Thomas. He previously worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Waseca and Northfield, Minnesota. His writing has been recognized by the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is currently enrolled in the MA program in English at the University of St. Thomas.
Sharin Schroeder is Assistant Professor of English at Taipei Tech in Taiwan. She has published on Matthew Arnold and Francis Newman in Nineteenth-Century Prose. Her essay, "Genre Problems: Andrew Lang and J. R. R. Tolkien on (Fairy) Stories and (Literary) Belief," is forthcoming in Informing the Inklings, edited by Stephen Prickett and Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson. Her essay "She-who-must-not-be-ignored: Gender and Genre in The Lord of the Rings and the Victorian Boys' Book" was published in Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. [End Page 442]
Andrea Selleri is an associate fellow and tutor at the University of Warwick. He researches the relationship between literature and adjacent cultural formations, such as criticism and philosophy, with a double focus on the...
