Contributors
- Contributors
John Holmes (j.r.holmes@reading.ac.uk) is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading and Chair of the British Society for Literature and Science. His recent books include Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution (2009) and the edited collection Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions (2012). He is currently working on a new project on science and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Clare Pettitt (clare.pettitt@kcl.ac.uk) teaches English Literature at King’s College London. Her books include Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (2004) and “Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?” Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire (2007). She is currently working on a book project provisionally entitled Distant Contemporaries: Imagining a Shared Present in the Nineteenth Century.
Mike Sanders (michael.sanders@manchester.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (2009) and is currently editing a three-volume series for Pickering and Chatto entitled Chartist Literary Landmarks.
Sally Shuttleworth (sally.shuttleworth@st-annes.ox.ac.uk) is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on Victorian literature and science, including George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (1984); Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996); and, with Jenny Bourne Taylor, Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830–1890 (1998). Her most recent work is The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840–1900 (2010).
James Eli Adams (jea2139@columbia.edu) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of A History of Victorian Literature (2009), which has just been released in a corrected paperback edition.
Kristine Alexander (kristine.alexander@gmail.com) is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. She has published on the history of the Girl Guides and childhood in the First World War and is currently working on a manuscript about Guiding in early twentieth-century England, Canada, and India.
Veronica Alfano (veronica.alfano@gmail.com) is an Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her current project, The Lyric in Victorian Memory, relates mnemonic poetic form to cultural nostalgia; articles based on this study have appeared or are forthcoming in Critical Matrix, Feminist Studies in English Literature, [End Page 777] and the forthcoming collection Libidinal Lives. She is also editing the essay collection Virtual Victorians.
Suzy Anger (anger@mail.ubc.ca) is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Victorian Interpretation (2005), editor of Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture (2001), and co-editor of Victorian Science as Cultural Authority (2011). She is currently completing a monograph on consciousness and Victorian fiction.
Stephen Arata (sda2e@virginia.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Works in progress include the Blackwell Companion to the Novel, co-edited with J. Paul Hunter and Jennifer Wicke, and A History of the English Novel, also for Blackwell.
Nina Auerbach is Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written and lectured copiously on Victorian literature, culture, and lives.
Laurel Brake (l.brake@bbk.ac.uk) is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck, University of London. She works on nineteenth-century media history, literature (notably Walter Pater), and gender. She co-edited with Marysa Demoor the print and digital Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009) and directed the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008) (www.ncse.ac.uk). Currently she is writing on W. T. Stead as journalist, indexer, and publisher. She is also working on a biography of the Paters, Ink Work.
Daniel Brown (daniel.w.brown@uwa.edu.au) is the author of Hopkins’ Idealism: Philosophy, Physics, Poetry (1997) and Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). His monograph The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense is being published by Cambridge University Press in January 2013.
Antoinette Burton (aburton@illinois.edu) is Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is at work on a book...
