Biographies
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May Caroline Chan is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Her specialties are travel literature and Rudyard Kipling. Her most recent essay is "Orientalism Multiplied: Rudyard Kipling's View of Easternness in India and East Asia."
Jonathan Farina is Assistant Professor of English at Seton Hall University, where he teaches courses on 19th-century British literature. He has published articles and reviews in journals including RaVoN, Victorian Literature and Culture, and The Wordsworth Circle. He is working on a book manuscript titled Colloquial Knowledge: Everyday Language and the Epistemology of Character in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Dana M. Garvey is pursuing a doctorate in Art History at the University of Washington. The focus of her research is the late nineteenth-century Orientalist artist, Edwin Lord Weeks.
Timothy David Harding is a part-time tutorial assistant at Trinity College Dublin and recently completed a monograph developing some aspects of his thesis, which is due to be published by McFarland in 2010. He is seeking postdoctoral funding to complete his project on the relation between indoor pastimes, print culture, and associational culture in the U. K. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tim is a former newspaper subeditor and magazine editor, and a published author of works on chess, both instructional and historical.
Helena Ifill recently completed her PhD thesis, "Theories of Determinism in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, 1852–74," at the University of Sheffield, where she also teaches. [End Page 427]
Carol Hanbery MacKay is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the English Department of the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1987) and Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest (2001), as well as edited volumes of The Two Thackerays: The Centenary Biographical Introductions of Anne Thackeray Ritchie to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1988) and Dramatic Dickens (1989). She has recently published for Broadview Press a critical edition of Annie Besant's 1885 Autobiographical Sketches (2009).
Sarah McNeely is a doctoral student at Texas Christian University, where she teaches undergraduate courses in the English department. She has contributed to the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism and the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. Her article "Beyond the Drawing Room: The Musical Lives of Victorian Women" appears in the summer 2009 "Gender, Professions, and the Press" special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, edited by Marysa Demoor and Andrew King. Sarah's interests include nineteenth-century English and Irish literature, especially women's writing, nationalist poetry, and Victorian periodical print culture.
Beth Rodgers is a doctoral student at Queen's University Belfast. Her research examines constructions of adolescent girlhood in the literary marketplace of the fin de siècle, with a particular focus on girls' periodicals of the 1880s and '90s.
Shannon Scott presented "Terrifying Transformations: The Werewolf and the New Woman in Clemence Housman's The Were-Wolf" at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference in London in 2008. For the 2009 RSVP conference in Minneapolis, she was the curator for an exhibit entitled Unearthing Artifacts:Nineteenth-Century Irish Periodicals.
Catherine Waters has just been appointed as a Reader in Victorian Studies at the University of Kent. Her most recent monograph, Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate 2008) won RSVP's 2009 Robert L. Colby Scholarly Book Prize. Her essay on Sala is a pilot for a new project on the Victorian special correspondent. [End Page 428]
