Contributors
- Contributors
Tony Ballantyne taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, before returning to New Zealand where he is now Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Otago. His publications include Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire (Palgrave, 2001) and, with coeditor Antoinette Burton, Bodies In Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke, 2005).
Emily A. Haddad, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, has published Orientalist Poetics: The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry (Ashgate, 2002) and several essays, most recently “Tennyson, Arnold, and the Wealth of the East,” which appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture in 2004. Her current project is entitled “Indigenous Economies and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.”
Margot K. Louis is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria and is the author of Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry (McGill-Queen's, 1990). She is presently working on a book-length study of figurations of Persephone in Victorian and Modernist literature.
Lawrence Poston, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is completing a book-length manuscript on Newman and continuing work on Bulwer- Lytton and late-Romantic and early-Victorian political narrative. His broader interests include nonfictional prose and Victorian musical culture.
John Belchem is Professor of History at the University of Liverpool. Thanks to a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, he is in the process of completing two major projects: a new urban history to mark the eight-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of the granting of letters patent to Liverpool and a cultural history of the Liverpool-Irish.
Richard Bellon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Lyman Briggs School of Science at Michigan State University. His current research explores the place of science at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the relationship between botany and Darwinian theory in the mid-Victorian period.
Nicholas Birns teaches in the Department of Humanities at New School University, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and in literary theory. His book Understanding Anthony Powell was published in 2004 by University of South Carolina Press, and his essay on the nineteenth-century Australian novelist Marcus Clarke appeared in College Literature in 2005.
Matthew Bolton recently received his PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is currently revising his dissertation, a study of Robert Browning's influence on T. S. Eliot, for publication.
Patrick Brantlinger, acting coeditor of Victorian Studies, is James Rudy and College Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. His most recent books are Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties (2001); A Companion to the Victorian Novel (2002), coedited with William B. Thesing; and Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930 (2003).
Eileen Cleere is the author of Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Nineteenth-Century English Culture (2004). Selections from her new project on the impact of Victorian sanitation reform on aesthetic philosophy have appeared in Representations and in the anthology Filth: Dirt, Disgust and Modern Life (2005). She is Associate Professor of English at Southwestern University.
Andrew Elfenbein is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Byron and the Victorians (1995) and Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role (1999). He is currently working on the history of reading comprehension.
Daniel Hack is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel (2005). His current research is on African-American appropriations of Bleak House and the uses of revenge in Victorian fiction.
Daniel Headrick, Professor of History and Social Science at Roosevelt University, is the author of The Tools of Empire (1981), The Tentacles of Progress (1988), The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Relations, 1851–1945 (1991), and When Information Came of Age (2000). He is currently writing a book on technology and imperialism from Henry the Navigator to the present.
Kali Israel teaches modern British history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of...
