Biographies
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Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. She works on nineteenth-century media history, gender, and literature, notably Walter Pater. She co-edited with Marysa Demoor the print and digital DNCJ/ the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009) and directed the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition 2008 ( www.ncse.ac.uk ). Books on the press include Print in Transition, Studies in Media and Book History (2001), Subjugated Knowledges (1994), The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press, co-edited with Marysa Demoor (2009), and Encounters in the Victorian Press. Editors, Authors, Readers, co-edited with Julie Codell (2005). Articles on Scottish periodicals Blackwood’s and Chambers’s appeared in 2006 and 2007, on W T Stead’s newspaper fiction (2007), and on obituaries in Life Writing and Victorian Culture, ed. David Amigoni (2007). She has restarted her biography of the Paters, Ink Work.
Koenraad Claes is a PhD candidate at the English Department of the University of Ghent, where he is working on the research project “Genesis and Function of the Supplements.” He studies the conceptual unity of form and content in late-nineteenth-century little magazines, with regard to the tension between their market positioning and often ambitious formal aesthetics. He has presented his findings at international conferences and contributed to the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. His article “The Little Magazine in the 1890s: Towards a Total Work of Art,” co-authored with Marysa Demoor, will appear shortly in English Studies.
Marysa Demoor is Professor of English Literature at the University of Ghent and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the author of Their Fair Share. Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from [End Page 211] Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920 (2000) and the editor of Marketing the Author. Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880–1930 (2004). With Laurel Brake she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century. Picture and Press (2009) and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009).
Jolein De Ridder is a PhD candidate at the University of Ghent, where she works on the Victorian supplements project, “Genesis and Function of the Supplements.” In her research she studies women’s periodicals and their supplements, the Ladies’ Treasury in particular. She has presented papers at international conferences and contributed to the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, edited by Marysa Demoor and Laurel Brake (2008). Her article “From Fashion Colours to Spectrum Analysis: the Ladies’ Treasury and the Treasury of Literature,” co-authored with Marianne Van Remoortel, is forthcoming in Women’s History Review.
Andrew King is Reader in Print History at Canterbury Christ Church University. His publications include The London Journal 1845–1883: Periodicals, Production and Gender (2004) and the co-edited collections Popular Print Media 1820–1900 and Victorian Print Media (2005). A co-edited collection of essays and several articles on Ouida are soon to appear, along with an edition of Ouida’s last completed novel The Massarenes. Other current projects focus on Victorian advertising and on the synergy between the press and the professions.
Kate Macdonald is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Ghent. She has published several articles and chapters on the Dorothy and its supplements. She is working on late Victorian and Edwardian publishing history and on early twentieth-century periodicals in the context of middlebrow cultural production.
B. E. Maidment is Research Professor in the History of Print Culture at Salford University. He has a long standing interest in Victorian periodicals and was an Associate Editor for The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, to which he contributed many entries. He is currently completing a book called Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order 1820–1850 for Manchester University Press.
Mark W. Turner is Reader in English at King’s College London and researches the relationship between literature, media, and culture since the nineteenth century. He has published widely on various aspects of literature and journalism, and is currently co-editing, with John Stokes, a major new edition of Oscar Wilde’s journalism for Oxford University Press. He co-edits the journal Media History and is...
