Contributors
- Contributors
Rachel Sagner Buurma (rbuurma1@swarthmore.edu) is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. She is working on a book about referentiality and indexicality in the research practices of Victorian novelists, and is a project lead for the Early Novels Database. She and Laura Heffernan are co-authoring a new disciplinary history titled “The Historicist Classroom.”
Catherine Gallagher (cgall@berkeley.edu) is the Emeritus Eggers Professor of English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Her books include The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832–1867 (1985), Nobody’s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace (1994), Practicing New Historicism (2004, with Stephen Greenblatt), and The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2006). She is currently writing a history of modern counterfactual historical narratives.
Lauren M. E. Goodlad (lgoodlad@illinois.edu) is University Scholar, Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (2003) and of a forthcoming study, “The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience.”
Laura Heffernan (l.a.heffernan@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida. She is co-editor of Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (2014), and is writing a book about how modernist literary critics began to research taste rather than model it. She and Rachel Buurma are co-authoring a new disciplinary history titled “The Historicist Classroom.”
Caroline Levine (clevine@wisc.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (2003) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007). She is the nineteenth-century editor of the new Norton Anthology of World Literature and is completing a book on form.
Ariana Reilly (areilly@princeton.edu) is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, where she studies Victorian literature and culture. Her dissertation, “Leave-takings: Anti-Self-Consciousness and the Escapist Ends of the Victorian Marriage Plot,” provides a new framework for understanding the conventions of the marriage plot that privileges escapist fantasy over domestic desire.
Andrew Sartori (sartori.andrew@gmail.com) is an Associate Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Bengal in Global Concept History (2008) and the [End Page 767] co-editor of Global Intellectual History (2013) and From the Colonial to the Postcolonial (2007). He is also an editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies.
Hylton White (hylton.white@wits.ac.za) is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of several articles on problematics of kinship, mourning, estrangement, and historicity in South Africa, and is now working on a book manuscript in which he explores those topics through a critical materialist approach to the study of value, ethics, and personhood.
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Sukanya Banerjee (banerjee@uwm.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire (2010) and co-editor of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (2012). She is currently working on a book on the formation of ideas of loyalty in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and its empire.
Adrienne Baxter Bell (abell@mmm.edu) is Associate Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College. Her publications include George Inness and the Visionary Landscape (2003), George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy (2006), a chapter in The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting (2011), and a new introduction to Meyer Schapiro’s Modern Art (2011).
Carolyn Betensky (betensky@mail.uri.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. Her book Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2010. With Jonathan Loesberg, she is currently completing an annotated translation of Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris (1843) for Penguin Classics.
Robert L. Caserio (rlc25@psu...
