Contributors
- Contributors
Sonia Ashmore (soniaashmore@btinternet.com) is a research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, investigating the museum’s nineteenth-century collections of South Asian textiles. Her main research interest is in material and cultural exchange between Europe and Asia. She coedited The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Japan (2008) and is currently preparing a book on Liberty & Co. and another on aspects of the textile trade between India and Britain.
Felix Driver (f.driver@rhul.ac.uk) is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author of Power and Pauperism (1993), Geography Militant (2001), and Hidden Histories of Exploration (2009, with L. Jones), and coeditor of Imperial Cities (1999) and Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (2005). He is currently working on the visual culture of exploration.
Taryn Hakala (thakala@umich.edu) teaches at the University of Michigan, where she recently completed her PhD in English Language and Literature. She is currently revising her dissertation, “Working Dialect: Nonstandard Voices in Victorian Literature,” into a book manuscript, as well as preparing articles on linguistic style-shifting in Gaskell’s Mary Barton and on the afterlife of Dickens’s Sam Weller.
Helena Michie (michie@rice.edu) is the Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities at Rice University. She specializes in Victorian culture and in feminist theory. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently Victorian Honeymoons (2006). She is currently working, with Robyn Warhol, on a metabiography or “vita” of George Scharf, founding director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and man-about-town.
Robyn Warhol (warhol-down.1@osu.edu) is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University, where she is a core faculty member of Project Narrative. Author of Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (1989) and Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Popular Forms (2003), she is also coeditor of Feminisms (1991, 1997) and Feminisms Redux (2009). Her current projects include a book on the unnarratable in nineteenth-century British novels.
Robert D. Aguirre (r.aguirre@wayne.edu), Associate Professor in the Department of English at Wayne State University, is the author of Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture (2005). His essays on Victorian literature and culture have appeared in this journal, as well as in PMLA, Genre, and Victorian Review. He is currently working on a book about British and American travel writers and the tropics. [End Page 527]
Douglas R. Bacon (bacon.douglas@mayo.edu) is a practicing anesthesiologist and Professor of Anesthesiology and History of Medicine whose research interest is the history of anesthesiology. Focused predominately in organizational history, he has published extensively on the rise of anesthesiology as a medical specialty in the first half of the twentieth century and is working on a book about the topic.
Eva Badowska (badowska@fordham.edu) is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Fordham University. Her publications include articles on Victorian fiction, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and Polish poetry. She is completing The Bourgeois Interior: Persons and Things in Victorian Fiction, a book exploring the psychological fictions of the Brontës and sensation novels by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Sheridan LeFanu and mapping the contours of interiority in a world gradually captivated by the peculiar resonance of things.
Tony Ballantyne (tony.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago. His publications include Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire (2002) and Between Colonialism: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World (2006). He is currently working on several projects relating to the development of colonial knowledge during the nineteenth century.
Barbara J. Black (bblack@skidmore.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Skidmore College. She is the author of On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums (2000), and her work has appeared in such journals as Victorian Poetry, The Dickens Studies Annual, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, In-between, and Salmagundi. She is currently writing a book on Victorian clubland called A Room of His Own.
Inga Bryden (inga.bryden@winchester.ac.uk) is Principal Lecturer in English and Head of Research in the Faculty of...
