Contributors
- Contributors
Athena Vrettos, Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture (Stanford, 1995). She is currently working on a book entitled “Mental Economies: Victorian Fiction, Psychology, and Spaces of Mind” and has an article forthcoming on Victorian theories of déjà vu.
John M. Picker, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, is completing a dissertation entitled “Hearing Things: Sound in the Victorian Imagination,” which examines noise, silence, and acts of listening in mid- to late-nineteenth- century literature and culture.
Ross G. Forman is a Research Fellow in the English Department at Kingston University in suburban London. He is currently preparing further articles about Britain’s interaction with Brazil during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is also working on a book about Victorian and Edwardian narratives about China.
Daniel Karlin is Professor of English at University College London and is the author of The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett (1985) and Browning’s Hatreds (1993), and co-editor of The Poems of Browning (1991). He edited The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse in 1997.
Peter Allen is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. His work on the Victorian clerisy includes The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years (1978) and articles on the Apostles, Christian Socialism, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Church and State.
Suzy Anger is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She has published articles on Carlyle and Eliot, edited a forthcoming collection of essays on knowing the Victorians, and is currently completing a book on Victorian theories of interpretation.
Ann L. Ardis, Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is the author of New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism (1990) and co-editor (with Bonnie Kime Scott) of Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries (Pace, 2000). Her current projects include “Women’s ‘Experience’ of Modernity, 1875–1945,” a collection of critical essays (co-edited with Leslie Lewis); and a critical study, “Mapping Culture: British Literary Modernism and the ‘Rise’ of English Studies, 1880–1922.”
Nina Auerbach is the John Welsh Centennial Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress. She is presently writing about ghosts, Victorian and our own.
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Professor of English at Boston College, is the author of The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction (1988) and The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction (1994). She is currently working on acts of retrospection in Victorian texts.
Christine Bolus-Reichert is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A former Book Review Editor of Victorian Studies, she is completing her dissertation, “In the Wilderness of Styles: The Eclectic Turn in Victorian Art and Literature.” In July of 2000, she will take up an appointment as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Arthur Burns, Lecturer in Modern British History at King’s College London, is the author of The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c. 1800–1870 (1999) and articles on the Victorian church. He is currently a director of “The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835” and co-editor of a forthcoming history of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Antoinette Burton, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Burdens of History (1994) and At the Heart of the Empire (1998). She is currently working on a book about Indian women writers called “Dwelling in the Archive.”
Nigel Burton, Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Reading, is the author of two chapters in The Athlone History of Music in Britain Volume V: The Romantic Age, 1800–1914, edited by Nicholas Temperley, and has written widely on British nineteenth-century music. He is an honorary Vice-President of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society of Great Britain.
Deirdre d’Albertis, Associate Professor of English at Bard College, is the author of Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (1997). She is currently at work on...
