Contributors
- Contributors
Lara Kriegel is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University. She has published several essays on Victorian visual and material culture, and her 2004 article, “Culture and the Copy: Calico, Capitalism, and Design Copyright in Early Victorian Britain,” received the Donald Gray Prize from the North American Victorian Studies Association. In 2007, Duke University Press will publish her book, Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture.
Caroline Levine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (University of Virginia, 2003), which won the Perkins Prize for the most significant book in narrative studies, and Provoking Democracy (forthcoming from Blackwell), she is also co-editor of several collections of essays, including a volume in progress called Narrative Middles.
Frances Robertson is a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, in the department of Historical and Critical Studies. Her research interests are centered on the development of visual practices in the nineteenth century outside those of fine art, with particular reference to the impact of mechanical processes on both production and reception. The two main areas of this research so far have included early photography and technical drawing.
Joseph Sramek recently defended a PhD in history at the City University of New York Graduate Center entitled “A Moral Empire? Anxieties about Masculinity and Colonial Governance in Company India, ca. 1780–1857.” In addition to revising his dissertation into a book, he plans in the future to write a comparative study of South and Southeast colonial tiger hunting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Gisela Argyle is Associate Professor of Humanities at York University. She is the author of Germany as Model and Monster: Allusions in English Fiction, 1830s–1930s (2002). Her current project analyzes the transformation of the life-writings of Helene von Racowitza and Caroline Norton, both involved in political scandals, into two novels by George Meredith.
Eitan Bar-Yosef is Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is author of The Holy Land in English Culture 1799–1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism (2005) and coeditor, with Nadia Valman, of The “Jew” in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa (forthcoming).
Laura C. Berry is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Honors College at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the author of The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel (1999).
Lori Branch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Her first book, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth, has been released from Baylor University Press (2006).
Jamie L. Bronstein, Associate Professor of History at New Mexico State University, is the author of Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800–1862 (1999). She is currently researching the lives and legacies of two individuals involved with the Chartist movement: the transatlantic radical John Francis Bray and the irrepressible MP Thomas Slingsby Duncombe.
Gregory Claeys, Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, has research interests in the history of socialism and utopianism and has published extensively on labor history and the history of political thought.
Bruce Coleman, the author of Conservatism and the Conservative Party in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1988), is, in retirement, still actively associated with the Department of History at the University of Exeter and is writing a study of nineteenth-century London.
Tim Dolin is the author of George Eliot (2005) and a short biography of Thomas Hardy forthcoming in Haus Publishing's Life and Times series. He is working on Victorian Novels and Australian Stories: Reading and Writing in the Long(-Distance) Nineteenth Century, and “The Australian Common Reader Project” (www.api-network.com/hosted/acrp/), a digital archive of reading and culture in Australia.
Paul Edison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. His book, Latinizing America: The French Scientific Study of Mexico, 1820–1920, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Molly Engelhardt is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Texas A & M University...
