Contributors
- Contributors
Stephen Arata (sda2e@cms.mail.virginia.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is a General Editor of The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Forthcoming publications include "The Victorian Fin-de-Siècle" for the New Cambridge History of English Literature.
Nicholas Dames (nd122@columbia.edu) is Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction 1810-1870 (2001) and The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (2007). He is at work on a history of the chapter, from manuscript bibles to the modern novel.
Marco de Waard (j.m.dewaard@uva.nl) is a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Amsterdam University College and a Research Affiliate in the Department of English at the University of Amsterdam. He specializes in the history of Victorian intellectual and literary history, and is currently completing a monograph titled John Morley and the Uses of History in Victorian Liberal Culture.
James Emmott (james@emmott.org) is a postgraduate research student in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he is completing his PhD on nineteenth-century understandings of composite form in the arts and sciences of the voice and the face, supported by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Jonathan Farina (jvfarina@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor of English at Seton Hall University and, for 2010-2011, an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. He has taught at NYU, where he completed his PhD in 2008, and at Vanderbilt University. His paper comes from a book-in-progress on everyday turns of phrase and the epistemic assumptions they inscribe into different genres of nineteenth-century writing.
Regenia Gagnier (r.gagnier@exeter.ac.uk) is Professor of English at the University of Exeter, President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Senior Research Fellow at the ESR C Centre for Genomics in Society, and Editor in Chief of Literature Compass and the Global Circulation Project. Her most recent book is Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: on the Relationship of Part to Whole 1859-1920 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
D. Rae Greiner (drgreine@indiana.edu) completed a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the faculty at Indiana University in 2007. Portions of her [End Page 601] current book project, "Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction," have appeared in the journals Narrative and ELH.
Naomi Levine (naomi.g.levine@gmail.com) is a PhD student at Rutgers University. She is working on rhyme and rhymed verse forms in Victorian poetry and poetic theory.
Kelly J. Mays (kelly.mays@unlv.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and co-author, with Alison Booth, of The Norton Introduction to Literature (8th ed., 2010). She is currently completing a book tentatively entitled How the Victorians Invented Themselves: Imagining an Era and a Style, c. 1839-1901.
Beth Newman (bnewman@smu.edu) teaches nineteenth-century British literature at Southern Methodist University, where she also directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her book Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity was published by Ohio University Press in 2005. She has also edited Jane Eyre for Bedford Books (1996) and Wuthering Heights for Broadview Press (2007). She has published articles on nineteenth-century fiction and on nineteenth-century attitudes toward language.
Adela Pinch (apinch@umich.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (Stanford, 1996), and Thinking About Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing (Cambridge, 2010).
John Plotz (plotz@brandeis.edu) is Professor of Victorian Literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (California, 2000) and Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton, 2008) and his current project is "Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Partial Absorption." He is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a residential Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...
