Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship

Contributors

Contributors Co-Editors   is professor of English and women’s studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1995). She has contributed essays to Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments (1995); Robert Browning in Contexts (1998); The Culture of Christina Rossetti (1999); Critical Essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2000); Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries (2001); and Feminist Literary History Re(Dis)Covered (2003). She has also published articles in various journals on the Brownings, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gaskell, Dickens, the body, and feminist theory. She served as 1996– 98 president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and is currently working on a project tentatively titled “The Black Dove’s Mark: Nineteenth-Century Literary History and the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Archives.”   is associate professor of English at Dalhousie University . She has edited John Thelwall’s The Peripatetic (2000) and published articles on John Thelwall and Romantic radical culture in Studies in Romanticism and in the collection Romanticism, History and the Possibilities of Genre (1998). She is currently at work on a full-length study on the poetics of speech and politics of literary relationship in the Romantic period tentatively titled “The Silenced Partner : John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle.” She acted as coordinator and program chair of the 1999 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference. Authors   is assistant professor of English at Western Maryland College. She has published articles in Conradia, The D. H. Lawrence Review, 361 and Etudes lawrenciennes. She is also a contributor to the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching D. H. Lawrence (2001).   received her doctorate from Princeton University and is currently a lecturer in American literature at the University of East Anglia , Norwich, England. She is completing a book-length study tentatively titled Dead Metaphors: Writing Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, and Sylvia Plath. In addition to submitting chapters to forthcoming volumes, she has published in The Antioch Review, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She also reviews regularly for the TLS and for The Observer.    is associate professor of English at Huron University College, an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada . She has published on the Brownings in Browning Institute Studies and Studies in Browning and His Circle, as well as on Margaret Atwood and W. D. Valgardson . Her present research on literary collaboration has taken her to India to interview Bhalchandra Nemade and Sudhakar Marathe on their collaborative production of Cocoon, an English translation of Nemade’s Marathi novel Kosla. She is currently working on a book on the Brownings’ literary relationship.   is professor of English and has served as chair of the English Department at the University of Alberta, and as vice-president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is the author or editor of eight books on Renaissance literature, children’s literature, and women’s writing, including The World of Hannah More (1996). She has recently published Women’s Writing in English: Early Modern England (2005) and is preparing a second edition of From Instruction to Delight: Children’s Literature to 1850 (2003).  .  is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta. He has published in Queering Absinthe, Open Letter, and ARC. He served as the editor of Prairie Fire magazine’s special queer issue “Flaming Prairies,” and he and Terry Goldie coedited “Postcolonial and Queer Theory and Praxis,” a special issue of ARIEL. He is head instructor of Writing for Film & Television at the Vancouver Film School and is the author of the popular Vancouver newspaper series Tide Pool Sketches. His other creative work has appeared in journals such as Dandelion, Event, Other Voices, and ARC.   is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. He holds a doctorate from the University of Sydney, where he wrote a dissertation on masculinity , mentoring, and maternity in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Gerard is currently writing a cultural history of the Internet and researching new media cultures. 362 Contributors   is a lecturer in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at the University of San Francisco. She completed her dissertation in the English Department at the University of California, Davis, where she has specialized in American literature and literature by women. Her dissertation “Embodying Gender: The Politics of Form in American Literature, 1850...