Biographies
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Scott Banville is a Marion L. Brittain Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current book project is on the representation of the Victorian lower middle classs in novels, the periodical press, self-help and conduct books, and on the music hall stage. He is also working on a project exploring the relationship between scientific advances and epistemological doubt in late Victorian gothic novels.
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.
Dana M. Garvey is a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Washington. Her article on the late nineteenth-century art critic, W. Cosmo Monkhouse, will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Princeton Library Chronicle. She is currently editing a book on impressionism in the Pacific Northwest.
Larry K. Uffelman, emeritus professor of English, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA, is a long-time member of RSVP. He has contributed to and edited RSVP’s recurring checklist of scholarship on periodicals. He has also published on Charles Kingsley’s serialized novels and, most recently, on Elizabeth Gaskell’s serial fiction. [End Page 180]
K. G. Valente holds a joint appointment on the faculty of Colgate University as an Associate Professor of Mathematics and its Liberal Arts CORE Program. His current research project focuses on professional and lay engagements with mathematical innovations c. 1870–1930. Subjects of recent publications include Edwin A. Abbott (1838–1926), Bishop E. W. Barnes (1874–1953), and George Salmon (1819–1904). Forthcoming work will explore the efforts of Mary Everest Boole to promote the work of her husband, the mathematician and logician George Boole.
Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, originated, and updates annually, “Victorian Periodicals Aids to Research: A Selected Bibliography” on the Victorian Research Web ( http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html ). Her most recent publication is a biography of journalist Florence Fenwick Miller. [End Page 181]
