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Daniel Denecke, Lecturer at University of Maryland, College Park, is currently completing a manuscript entitled “Pressing Subjects: Social Economy and Literary Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain.”
Stephanie Kuduk teaches Romantic and Victorian literature in the English Department at Wesleyan University. She received her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1999. Her current research explores the history of republican verse in nineteenth-century England, tracing the relation between grassroots politics, political theory, and poetic form.
Helena Michie is a professor of English at Rice University. Her work focuses on representations of the body in literature and culture, both Victorian and contemporary. She is currently at work on a book-length project on the Victorian honeymoon, tentatively entitled “Victorian Honeymoons: Tourism, Sexuality, Transformation.”
Isobel Armstrong is the University of London Professor of English at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993) and coeditor of the Oxford Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry (1996). Her most recent book is a theoretical and political work, The Radical Aesthetic (2000). She is completing a study of the cultural meanings of glass in the nineteenth century.
Richard W. Bailey, Professor of English at the University of Michigan, is the author of Nineteenth-Century English (1996). His most recent contribution to the study of Victorian philology is found in the essay collection Lexicography and the OED (2000).
J. O. Baylen, Regents’ Professor of History Emeritus at Georgia State University, is working on a biography of the late-Victorian foreign correspondent and authority on Russian and East European affairs, Dr. Emile-J. Dillon (1854–1933). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of the World Press and is a contributor to the British Journalism Review.
Joseph Bizup, Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of articles on Ruskin, Hopkins, and Pater. He is currently working on a study of Victorian industrial culture.
Frederick N. Bohrer is Associate Professor of Art at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He is the editor of Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870–1930 [End Page 374] (1999). His book on the reception of Mesopotamian archaeology in nineteenth-century Europe is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Michael R. Booth, Emeritus Professor of Theatre at the University of Victoria, is the author or editor of English Melodrama (1965), the five-volume English Plays of the Nineteenth Century (1969–1976), Victorian Spectacular Theatre (1981), Theatre in the Age of Victoria (1991), The Lights o’ London and Other Victorian Plays (1996), and chapters on Ellen Terry and Sarah Siddons in, respectively, Bernhardt, Terry, Duse (1988) and Three Tragic Actresses (1996).
James Buzard is Associate Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to “Culture,” 1800–1918 (1993) and is working on Anywhere’s Nowhere: Fictions of Autoethnography in the United Kingdom (forthcoming, Princeton).
Mary Wilson Carpenter, Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University, is the author of George Eliot and the Landscape of Time (1986) and articles on Victorian literature and gender studies, the Apocalypse, and age studies. She is currently completing a book, “Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies,” on Victorian women writers’ construction of gender and sexuality as read against those of commercial family Bibles and other mass-market Protestant biblical interpretation.
Julie F. Codell, Director of the School of Art at Arizona State University, has published on Victorian culture in Victorian Studies, Art History, Victorian Periodicals Review, Dickens Studies Annual, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Oxford Art Journal, and Book History, and has contributed to many essay collections and encyclopedias. She coedited Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture (1998). She recently completed a manuscript, “Lives of the Artists,” on Victorian artists’ life-writings and political economy.
Julie English Early, currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She has published on Victorian travel and on women in science. She is currently working on a book on Edwardian literature and culture and has published related articles in Victorian Studies...
