Biographies
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[End Page 179] Christopher Banham recently completed his PhD at the School of History, University of Leeds. His current research focuses upon Victorian boys’ periodical literature, especially publications read predominantly by the working class. His thesis, Boys of England and Edwin J. Brett, 1866–99, offered an innovative, revisionist perspective regarding the social and cultural significance of the leading boys’ paper of the era.
Andrea Broomfield is an Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. She has published several articles on Victorian women and the periodicals press and is currently writing a book on the history of food and cooking in Victorian England for Praeger-Greenwood Press.
Julia Chavez is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on a dissertation that examines the trope of wandering in Victorian serial novels by M. E. Braddon, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. Her research interests include the Victorian novel, Victorian book illustration, and nineteenth-century periodical culture.
Richard Fulton is Dean for Instruction at Whatcom Community College. He is a past president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, former editor of VPR, an author of a number of articles and review of Victorian studies, and editor of The Union List of Victorian Serials.
[End Page 180] Martin Hewitt is Professor of Victorian Studies at Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. His piece on the Victorian as period is published in the Spring 2006 issue of Victorian Studies.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, is author of Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (2005), awarded the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 2006 Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for a work making a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals. She is co-author with Michael Lund of The Victorian Serial (1991) and Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell’s Work (1999). She is currently completing a book on Victorian poetry in the context of print culture.
