Biographies
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Scott Banville teaches in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday: The Geography of Class in Late-Victorian Britain," which appeared in VPR in the summer of 2008, as well as other articles and book chapters on Victorian popular culture and the novel. He is currently working on a book on Victorian literary and popular culture representations of the lower middle class.
Andrea Cabus is a PhD candidate at Temple University. Her research considers how sympathy shapes reviews of novels and novelists in Victorian periodicals. She is particularly interested in how sympathetic reading molded the literary reviewing voice and the reception of eighteenth-century and Romantic novelists.
Tracy J.R. Collins teaches at Central Michigan University. She is currently working on a project that analyzes New Woman fiction, autobiography, and public school curriculum entitled "The New Woman and Physical Culture: Fitness, Sports, and Athletics." She has published on Conrad, Bernard Shaw, baseball literature, and New Woman autobiography.
Martin Dubois is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Cambridge, where he is working on relations between style and faith in the poetry of Hopkins.
Alexis Easley is Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her book, Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, is forthcoming from Delaware UP, 2011. Her first book, First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print [End Page 346] Media, was published in 2004. Easley's articles have appeared in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, and other journals. Her work has also been published in book collections, including Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, edited by Lynette Felber, and Victorian Women Writers and the 'Woman Question,' edited by Nicola Thompson.
Ian Haywood is Professor of English at Roehampton University, London. His most recent books are The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People 1790-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation 1776-1832 (Palgrave, 2006). His current research centers on popular visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a special interest in the Chartist poet and engraver William James Linton.
Clare Horrocks is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication at Liverpool John Moores University. Her doctoral research examined the role of Punch in proselytising public health reform between 1841 and 1858. Associated research interests include the work of Charles Dickens and Charles Kingsley and rising debates about the role of digitisation in the future of periodical research. She recently edited a special edition on "Research and Punch" for the Journal of Popular Narrative Media. A contributor to the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2008), she is also a bibliographer for Victorian Periodicals Review.
Beth Palmer is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. She is the author of a guide to Victorian Literature (York Press, 2010) and co-editor of a book on Victorian readership (forthcoming with Ashgate). Her monograph, Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture, will be published with Oxford University Press in early 2011.
Molly Youngkin is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Her publications include Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle (Ohio State UP, 2007) and an annotated edition of Sarah Grand's 1888 novel, Ideala (Valancourt, 2008). She is currently working on a book about the relationship between women writers, artistic storytelling, and race hierarchies in the Victorian period. [End Page 347]
