Contributors
- Contributors
Jordanna Bailkin is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain (Chicago, 2004). Her new work includes a project on race, pigment, and portraiture, and a study of the impact of immigration and decolonization on English legal theory.
C. A. Bayly is Vere Hamsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Saint Catharine's College, Cambridge. His most recent books are The Birth of the Modern World (2004), Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia 1941–45 (with Tim Harper, 2004), and The Origins of Nationality in South Asia (1998).
Elaine Hadley teaches at the University of Chicago. She is completing a book, Living Liberalism, which develops the assessment of Victorian liberalism that is only gestured at in this piece. She is also the author of Melodramatic Tactics.
Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (Routledge, 1998) and of The Tichborne Claimant (forthcoming from Hambledon in 2006). He is co-editing (with Kelly Boyd) The Victorian Studies Reader (forthcoming from Routledge in 2007).
Christopher Oldstone-Moore earned his PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1992. His publications include Hugh Price Hughes: Founder of a New Methodism and Conscience of a New Nonconformity (U of Wales P, 1999). He is currently Lecturer in History at Wright State University, and is writing a book about beards and masculinity in Western civilization.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializes in global sociology with research interests in globalization, development studies, and intercultural studies. Recent books are Globalization or Empire? (Routledge, 2004), Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and Development Theory: Deconstructions/ Reconstructions (Sage, 2001). In preparation is “Ethnicities and Multiculturalisms.” Website <www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jnp>.
Penny Russell teaches history at the University of Sydney and writes about gender and gentility, manners and power in colonial Australia. She first encountered Jane Franklin as the governor's wife in Tasmania, and the fascination of the subject has drawn her from her original specialization. She is now writing a book on Jane Franklin and the romance of Arctic exploration for the University of Toronto Press.
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. She also edited Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said and a special issue of Ariel on Institutionalizing English Literature: The Postcolonial / Postindependence Challenge. Her current work is on memory, history, and modern occultism.
Susan Zieger completed her PhD in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. She is currently revising her dissertation, “Addictive Fictions: Medical Knowledge, Novelistic Form, and Habits of Mind in Britain, 1860–1914,” into a literary and cultural history of addiction in nineteenth-century Britain and the U.S. She is an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Alison Booth, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is author of How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004) and Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992). President of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature in 2005, she has edited Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (1993) and coedits the Norton Introduction to Literature. She is currently working on a book on Anglophone “homes and haunts” and literary tourism, from 1820 to the present.
Alison Byerly is Professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Middlebury College. She is the author of Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature (1997), as well as of articles on the picturesque, Victorian travel, and theories of landscape. She is currently completing a project entitled “Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism.”
Roger Cooter is Professorial Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University...
