Contributors
- Contributors
Thomas C. Crochunis is Assistant Professor of English at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. He has published work on gothic drama, women playwrights, and humanities scholarship online. He is co-editor (with Michael Eberle-Sinatra) of the British Women Playwrights Around 1800 web project and the forthcoming Broadview Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777–1843, and editor of Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays (2004).
Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of the Performing Arts at Northwestern University. She has edited numerous collections and is author of Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (1991), George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre (1994), The Economics of the British Stage, 1800–1914 (2000), and the forthcoming Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense. She is President of the American Society for Theatre Research.
Kathleen Frederickson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. She is completing a dissertation entitled “The Content of Instinct: Liberalism and the Sciences of Sex, 1870–1900.”
Deidre Lynch has recently joined the faculty of the University of Toronto, where she is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English. She is author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998) and the editor, most recently, of the romantic period volume of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (8th edition, 2006). A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is currently completing a book entitled “At Home in English: A Cultural History of the Love of Literature.”
Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of eighteenth-century and romantic British literature at Miami University. She is author of Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), and has published essays in ELH, MLQ, European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Prose. She has also edited The Castle of Otranto and The Poetess Archive Database available online at <http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess>.
Nancy Rose Marshall is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she works on the visual culture of nineteenth-century Britain. Co-author of the exhibtion catalogue James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love (1999), her current project is a book entitled “City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London.”
Alexandra Neel is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Princeton University, where she is completing her dissertation, “The Writing of Ice: Literary and Photographic Explorations of Antarctica and the Arctic,” which explores the exchanges between writing, photography, and polar travel. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf and on photography and will join the English faculty at the University of Oregon this fall.
Mary Orr was appointed to the Professorship of French at the University of Southampton in 2005. Her Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts (2003), and From Goethe to Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the French and German Literary Canon 1770–1936, co-edited with Lesley Sharpe (2005) are among her recent publications in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French studies. Her profile can be found at <http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/profiles/orr.html>.
Marjean D. Purinton is Professor of English and Assistant Dean of the University Honors College at Texas Tech University. She is the author of Romantic Ideology Unmasked: The Mentally Constructed Tyrannies in Dramas of William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Joanna Baillie (1994) and Staging Grotesques and Ghosts: British Romantic Techno-Gothic Drama (currently under review), and has published numerous articles. She is President of the International Conference on Romanticism and serves on the editorial boards of Intertexts and the South Central Review.
Cannon Schmitt is Associate Professor at Wayne State University and edits the journal Criticism. He is completing a book titled “Savage Mnemonics: South America, Victorian Evolutionary Theory, and the Memory of the Human.”
Michael Tomko is Assistant Professor at Villanova University, where he teaches literature in the interdisciplinary Department of Humanities. He is also a 2006–07 Mellon Regional Faculty Research Fellow in the Penn Humanities Forum. He is currently working on a study of British Romanticism and Catholic Emancipation and co-editing an anthology of English Catholic writing.
Athena Vrettos is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in...
