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  • Notes on Contributors

Dohra Ahmad is an assistant professor of English at St. John’s University. She is currently completing a book on the utopian elements in twentieth-century anticolonial thought, a portion of which appeared in ELH.

Nigel Alderman is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. He is the co-editor of “Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism” (a special issue of Yale Journal of Criticism) and A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry (forthcoming). He has published on both nineteenth-and twentieth-century poetry and is completing a manuscript entitled Forms of Transition: British Literature of the Sixties.

Amanda Claybaugh is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is completing a manuscript entitled Cross Purposes: Literary Ambition and Social Reform in the Trans-Atlantic Novel. The essay in this journal is part of a new project on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction.

Rachel Cole is an assistant professor of English at Lewis and Clark College. The essay in this journal is part of a larger project entitled Personal Effects: Social Recognition in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Ivan Kreilkamp is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University and co-editor of Victorian Studies. He is the author of Voice and the Victorian Storyteller, forthcoming from Cambridge. The essay in this journal derives from a new project tentatively entitled “Pet Narratives: English Fiction and the Domestic Animal in the Long Nineteenth Century.”

Martin Puchner is an associate professor of English at Cornell University and author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality and Drama as well as the forthcoming Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes. He has written introductions to works by Henrik Ibsen and Lionel Abel and is co-editor of the forthcoming Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage and the Norton Anthology of Drama. He is the associate editor of Theatre Survey.

Julie Townsend will be an assistant professor of interdisciplinary humanities in the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands in the Fall of 2005. She is completing a book on the figure of the danseuse in France, and her essay “Alchemic Visions and Technological Advances: Sexual Morphology [End Page 207] in Loïe Fuller’s Dance” appears in Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage.

Frederick Whiting is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has published articles on sexual psychopathology and American literature and is currently at work on a book entitled The Inner Limits: Persons, Novels, and Form in Modern American Literature, which examines transformations in concepts of human and novelistic form under the sign of monstrosity.

Matthew Wickman is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. His work has appeared in PMLA and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Allure of the Improbable: Scotland’s “Romantick” Highlands and the Appeal to Experience in Modernity. [End Page 208]

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