Contributors
- Contributors
Kristen Guest is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research, which focuses on Victorian literature and popular culture, has appeared in such journals as Victorian Literature and Culture, the Victorians Institute Journal, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. She is currently holds a SSHRCC faculty research grant and is working on a book-length study of the policeman in Victorian detective fiction.
Albert D. Pionke is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and is the author of Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England (2004). He is currently working on “Ceremonial Status,” a book-length investigation of the prevalence of elite-public ritual and its significance to constructions of uppermiddle-class and professional identities in the Victorian period.
John Plotz is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University and author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (2000). This article is drawn from Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (forthcoming, 2008), which also includes chapters on George Eliot, R. D. Blackmore, Thomas Hardy, and William Morris. He is working on a manuscript tentatively titled “A History of Antisocialism, Mill to Arendt.”
Jessica Straley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah. She completed her PhD in English Literature at Stanford University in 2005. This article is taken from a manuscript on which she is currently working, entitled “How the Child Lost Its Tail: Evolutionary Theory, Victorian Pedagogy, and the Development of Children's Literature, 1860–1920.”
Janice M. Allan is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford, UK. She is the editor of Bleak House: A Sourcebook (2004), has guest-edited two special issues of Clues: A Journal of Detection devoted to the Victorian period, and has published various articles on Wilkie Collins. She is currently working on “The Sensation Fiction Sourcebook” for Liverpool University Press.
Laurel Brake is Senior Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author and editor of books and articles on media history, including Subjugated Knowledges (1994) and Print in Transition (2001). She is currently working on three projects: ncse (Nineteenth-Century Serial Edition) which is a full-text, electronic edition of a cluster of six nineteenth-century serials; a Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism; and a biography of Walter Pater.
Marta Braun is the author of Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne Marey 1830–1904. She teaches art history, photographic history, and film theory at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Ewen A. Cameron is Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Land for the People: The British Government and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1880–1925 (1996) and a biography of the Crofter MP Charles Fraser Mackintosh (2000). He is currently completing a study of Scotland since 1880, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in their New Edinburgh History of Scotland.
Lisa Forman Cody, Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons (2005), which won several honors including the Berkshires Best First Book Prize. She is now writing about Ferdinando Tenducci, an Italian eighteenth-century castrato, and his wife, Dorothea Maunsell, an Irish-Protestant singer.
Pamela Dalziel is Associate Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her two most recent books, both forthcoming next year, are Visual Hardy: Representing Gender and Genre in the Illustrated Novels and (with Michael Millgate) Thomas Hardy's “Poetical Matter” Notebook.
Vinita Damodaran is a historian of modern India and Director of the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex. Her publications include Broken Promises, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar (1992), Nature and the Orient, Essays on the Environmental History of South and South-East Asia (1998), and Postcolonial India: History, Politics and Culture (2000). She is currently completing a manuscript on landscape and indigeneity in Chotanagpur.
Christine DeVine is Mary E. Dichmann/BORS F Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and author of Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy, and Wells (2005) as well...
