Contributors
- Contributors
Kirstie Blair (kirstie.blair@glasgow.ac.uk) holds a Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is the author of two monographs on Victorian poetry, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (2006) and Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion (2012), and has published widely on Victorian poetry, particularly religious poetics, and other topics in the long nineteenth century.
Jo Briggs (jbriggs@thewalters.org) is Assistant Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. She has published articles on British, French, and German visual culture, and is currently working on a book project provisionally titled Bodies of Evidence: Revolutions and Exhibitions in British Visual Culture, 1848–1851.
Peter J. Capuano (pcapuano2@unl.edu) received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2009. He joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an Assistant Professor of English in 2010 and the faculty of the Dickens Project in 2011. He is completing a book entitled Changing Hands: Industrialization, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.
Alison Chapman (alisonc@uvic.ca) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her publications include The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti and A Companion to Victorian Poetry (edited with Richard Cronin and Antony H. Harrison). She is the Director of the Victorian Poetry Network and the Editor of the Database of Victorian Periodical Poetry.
Lara Kriegel (lkriegel@indiana.edu) is Associate Professor of History and English at Indiana University. The author of Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture, she has published widely on imperial history, cultural history, and design history. She serves at present as the Associate Editor of the American Historical Review. Her current book project investigates the Crimean War, its Victorian legacies, and its twentieth-century afterlife.
Jules Law (jlaw@northwestern.edu) is Professor of English at Northwestern University. His theoretical essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, SIGNS, New Literary History, and other journals. His most recent book is The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel (2010). Essays from his current book project, Virtual Victorians, have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction.
Michael D. Lewis (mlewis@washjeff.edu) completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Virginia in 2010. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Washington and Jefferson College. He has published on mutiny in Gaskell’s North and [End Page 387] South and the Second Reform Act in Punch. He is currently writing a book on violence and democracy in industrial fiction.
Richard Menke (rmenke@uga.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (2008). He is at work on a book about the invention of media in the late nineteenth century.
Linda H. Peterson (linda.peterson@yale.edu) is Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University and author of Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market (2009), as well as two books on Victorian autobiography and numerous articles on Victorian poetry and prose. Her new book project explores the Victorian poetic debut, focusing on first volumes as material objects and textual creations.
Julia F. Saville (saville@illinois.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000) and has published in journals such as Victorian Poetry, ELH, and SEL. Her book in progress is provisionally entitled Civic Souls and the British Body Politic: Cosmopolitan Republican Poetics, 1845–1885.
Jonah Siegel (jsiegel@rci.rutgers.edu), Professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art (2000) and Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition (2005) and the editor of The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources (2007). His current projects include a study of the interplay of politics, desire, and the circulation of art around the Napoleonic period...
