Biographies
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Dorothy Deering is an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Her current research is on Nobel Prize winners in Literature
Hans de Groot has taught at the University of Toronto since 1965. At present his major research interests are in Scottish fiction. He has written essays on Scott, Galt, and Hogg. His edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys (1802-04) will be published by Edinburgh University Press later this year.
Merrill Distad is Associate Director of Libraries at the University of Alberta. He is a past president of RSVP, former editor of VPR, longtime member of the Society's executive, and now its official archivist. He is also the author, compiler, and editor of numerous books, articles, bibliographies, catalogues, and reviews, including the Canadian portion of The Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire, 1996; Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953, 2003; and contributions to The History of the Book in Canada, Vol. 2, 1840–1918, 2005. His history of RSVP, "Extinct, Extant, or Dormant: Thirty-Five Years of Victorian Scholars and Scholarship," appeared in VPR 36:4 (Winter 2003).
Richard Fulton is a former president of RSVP and former President and current Business Manager of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS). He is currently working on a book on mid-Victorian boyhood while simultaneously moving himself from Bellingham, Washington to what he hopes is his last professional position, near Honolulu, Hawaii at Windward Community College. [End Page 95]
Kathryn Ledbetter is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos. She is author of Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (2007) and "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (with Terence Hoagwood, 2005). Her current book project is titled British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry (Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan). She is the current editor of Victorian Periodicals Review.
Jennifer M. Regan recently completed her Ph.D at Queen's University Belfast on Alfred Webb, the Irish printer and president of the Indian National Congress. She edited an autobiography of Irish traveller and politician J. F. X. O'Brien for University College Dublin Press (2008) and has worked as a researcher on the digitalization of the Robert Hart Collection at Queen's University Belfast.
William H. Scheuerle is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of South Florida. He is a former president of RSVP and serves on the Senior Advisory Committee. In March 2007 he received the President's Award from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association for "sustained service to the Association and significant contribution to nineteenth-century studies."
Patrick Scott is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He has written on Victorian periodicals in Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and on Scottish authors in Studies in Scottish Literature, Scottish Literary Journal, Scottish Studies Review, Studies in Hogg, The Bibliotheck, and Cencrastus.
Larry K. Uffelman is a Professor Emeritus of English at Mansfield University and a long-time member of RSVP. He has published on British poets, Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Victorian periodicals bibliography. His latest scholarly contributions were to a linguistics conference and to a philosophy journal in Volgograd, Russia.
Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Puget Sound, originated, and updates annually, "Victorian Periodicals Aids to Research: A Selected Bibliography" on the Victorian Research Web (http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html). Her most recent publication is a biography of pioneer feminist and journalist Florence Fenwick Miller. [End Page 96]
J. Don Vann, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas, is the author or editor of eight books, including Victorian Novels in Serial (1985) and, with Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research, vols. 1 & 2, Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society (1994), and Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire (1996).
Michael Wolff helped to start Victorian Studies in 1957, then the Victorian Periodicals Newsletter in 1968, and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals in 1969. Since then he has encouraged regional Victorian studies conferences, including the 2001 London conference, "Locating the Victorians." A...
