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Susan Torrey Barstow completed a PhD in English at the University of Virginia. She is currently revising a book-length study of theatricality and first-wave feminism, entitled "Acting Feminist: The Theatrical Origins of the British Suffragette Movement." A chapter from this study, "Ellen Terry and the Revolt of the Daughters" recently appeared in Nineteenth Century Theatre (Summer 1997). She is also at work on a history of the matinee.

Susan Hamilton, Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta, has written on Victorian feminism, Victorian anti-vivisection, and Florence Nightingale, and is the editor of Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors (1995, second edition forthcoming), a collection of Victorian women's nonfiction prose. She is editor of Victorian Review, and is currently working on a book on Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian feminism.

Jill L. Matus, Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is the author of Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Maternity and Sexuality (1995) and Toni Morrison (1998). Her current project is a book on memory, the unconscious, and trauma in Victorian literature.

Jeffrey Auerbach, Assistant Professor of History at California State University Northridge, is the author of The Great Exhibition: A Nation on Display (1999). He is currently researching the relationship between art and the British Empire.

Tim Barringer, Assistant Professor of History of Art at Yale University, has published widely on Victorian visual culture. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1999), Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity, co-edited with Elizabeth Prettejohn (1998), and Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, co-edited with Tom Flynn (1998). He is completing a book on representations of labor in Victorian visual culture and is convener of "Art and the British Empire" at the Tate Gallery.

Ali Behdad, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1994). He is currently working on immigration and nationalism in the United States.

John W. Bicknell, Professor of English Emeritus at Drew University, was most recently editor of the two-volume Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen (1996), and is currently preparing the entry for Leslie Stephen for the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Philosophers. He is also working on "Memoirs of a Missionary Kid."

Susan P. Casteras, Professor of Art History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of many books and articles on Victorian art. Her newest publication is The Defining Moment: Victorian Narrative Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection (2000). Her current projects in Victorian visual culture include essays on traveling women artists, fairy painting, and a book on religious paintings.

Gregory Claeys, Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, has research interests in the history of socialism and utopianism and has published extensively on labor history and the history of political thought. He recently edited Restoration British Utopias (1995) and The French Revolution Debate in Britain (1995).

Morton N. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of The City University of New York, edited the two-volume edition of The Letters of Lewis Carroll (1979)and a book of Carroll's photographs, Reflections in a Looking Glass (1998). Cohen is the author of Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1995)

L. Perry Curtis, Jr., Professor of History and of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, is the author of Apes and Angels (1971, 1997) and the forthcoming Jack the Ripper and the London Press (2001).

Bradley Deane is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. He is currently completing a book on authorship in the nineteenth-century mass market entitled "The Making of the Victorian Novelist."

Tim Dolin teaches in the Department of English at The University of Newcastle in Australia. He is the author of Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel (1997) and is currently working on a book on Liberal politics and late-Victorian literary culture.

Julie English Early, currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She has published on Victorian travel and on women in science. She is...

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