Contributors
- Contributors
Elisha Cohn (ejc244@cornell.edu) received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2010 and joined the faculty of Cornell University as Assistant Professor of English. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Buried Lives: Suspended Development in Victorian Literature, portions of which appear in Nineteenth-Century Literature and SEL. Her essay on aestheticism and the neurosciences was recently published in Journal of Victorian Culture.
Marah Gubar (mjg4@pitt.edu) is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Children’s Literature Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her book Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009) won the 2009 Children’s Literature Association Book Award. She is currently working on a second book entitled Acting Up: Children, Agency, and the Case for Childhood Studies.
Tom Gunning (tgunning@uchicago.edu) is Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and author of D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (1991), The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (2000), and over a hundred articles. He is currently writing a book closely related to this essay on the invention of the moving image.
Ellis Hanson (eh36@cornell.edu) is Professor of English at Cornell University and is the author of Decadence and Catholicism (1997).
Sharon Marcus (marcus.sharon@gmail.com) is Orlando Harriman Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (1999) and of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2006), as well as the co-editor, with Stephen Best, of a special issue of Representations on “The Way We Read Now” (2009). Her current research focuses on theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.
Michael Meeuwis (mmeeuwis@uchicago.edu) completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Chicago, where he is presently Chicago Careers in Health Professions Writing Scholar. He is currently revising his dissertation, “Everyone’s Theater: Literary Culture and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914,” into a book-length study of Victorian theater in political theory, literary culture, and everyday life in England and its colonies.
Daniel A. Novak (dnovak@lsu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2008) and co-editor with James Catano of Masculinity Lessons: Rethinking Men’s and [End Page 585] Women’s Studies (2011). His current projects include a book examining the beginning of Wilde studies in the early twentieth century.
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (dpp@linfield.edu) received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010 and joined the faculty of Linfield College in Oregon as Assistant Professor of English. He is completing a book manuscript on Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, portions of which have appeared or are forthcoming in ELH and SEL. His articles have also been published in Dickens Studies Annual, Dickens Quarterly, and the Journal of the P. G. Wodehouse Society.
Thomas Prasch (tom.prasch@washburn.edu), a past Managing Editor of Victorian Studies, is professor and chair of history at Washburn University. Recent publications include “Eating the World: London in 1851,” Victorian Literature and Culture 36.2 (2008), and “Behind the Last Veil: Forms of Transgression in Ken Russell’s Salome’s Last Dance,” in Kevin Flanagan, ed., Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England’s Last Mannerist (2009).
Joan Allen (joan.allen@ncl.ac.uk) is Head of History and Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University. She has also served as Vice Chair of the Society for the Study of Labour History and an editor of Labour History Review. She has research interests in radical politics, the popular press, and the Irish in Britain. Among other things, she is the author of Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside, 1829–1900 (2007) and the co-editor (with Alan Campbell and John McIlroy) of Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives (2010), (with Richard C. Allen) of Faith of our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (2009), and (with Owen R. Ashton) of Papers...
