Contributors
- Contributors
Andrea Bobotis is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia. She is completing a dissertation that examines allegorical representations of the nation as mother in nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish literature. Her essay “Queering Knowledge in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman” appeared in the Irish University Review.
Carolyn Dever is Professor of English and women's and gender studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Skeptical Feminism (Minnesota, 2004) and Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud (Cambridge, 1998), and co-editor of The Literary Channel (Princeton, 2002). She is at work on a book about art, loss, and the journals of Michael Field.
Evan Horowitz received his PhD from Princeton University, where he specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. He is currently a fellow in the Stanford University Humanities Fellows Program, where he is teaching, transforming his dissertation, and working on a project entitled Revolutions in Literature.
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.
Shafquat Towheed teaches at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and the Open University. He is editor of The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901–1930 (2007), Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (2007), New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780–1947 (2007), and (with Mary Hammond) Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History (2007). He is currently writing a book on Vernon Lee and the history of ideas between 1875 and 1935.
Herbert F. Tucker is John C. Coleman Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he serves as series editor in Victorian literature and culture for the University Press and as associate editor of New Literary History. He has written Browning's Beginnings (1980), Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism (1988), and The Proof of Epic in Britain 1790–1910 (forthcoming, Oxford); and edited Under Criticism (1998, with David Sofield), A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (1999), and Victorian Literature 1830–1900 (2001, with Dorothy Mermin). An essay of his on Elizabeth Barrett Browning appears in the recent bicentenary issue of Victorian Poetry. He also serves on the editorial board of Victorian Studies and the executive board of NAVSA.
John Bonehill teaches art history at the University of Leicester. He has published on various aspects of British art history, including (as coeditor with Geoff Quilley) William Hodges 1747–1797: The Art of Exploration (2004) and Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, c. 1700–1830 (2005). He has recently completed a booklength manuscript on the subject of art and war in Hanoverian Britain, coauthored with Matthew Craske.
Samantha Brennan is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She is the editor of Feminist Moral Philosophy (2003) and coeditor, with Anita Superson, of Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition (Special Issue of Hypatia, Fall 2005). She writes about moral philosophy, feminist ethics, children's rights, family justice, and death.
Maria Teresa Chialant is Professor of English Literature at the University of Salerno. Her main fields of research are the Victorian novel, autobiographical writing, and gender studies. She has published extensively on Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, George Gissing, and H. G. Wells. She is the editor of many collections of essays, including Viaggio e letteratura (2006).
Meaghan Clarke is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her book Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880–1905 (2005) was published by Ashgate.
Lucy Curzon holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. She currently teaches art history and interdisciplinary studies at the University of West Georgia.
Richard Davis is Emeritus Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and a past president of the Midwestern Victorian Studies Association. His books include Disraeli (1976) and The...
