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  • Contributors

Jason Boulet is a Ph.D. candidate at Queen’s University (Canada). He is currently writing a dissertation on Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (1866). He has also published on the poetry of Peter Dale Scott in the University of Toronto Quarterly.

T.A.J. Burnett worked in the Manuscript Department of the British Library from 1961 to 1997, serving as Manuscripts Librarian from 1986. He specialised in nineteenth-century English Literature, and among other publications produced the Catalogue of the Ashley Manuscripts, parts I and II, 1999, a catalogue of the manuscripts in T. J. Wise’s Ashley Library. He has also worked on Byron and Shelley, and, together with Stefan Hawlin, edited Browning’s The Ring and the Book for OUP (1998, 2000, 2004).

Andrew Fippinger is a PhD student at Indiana University. He received his MA at the University of Virginia.

Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English, the University of Missisippi, has published studies of D. G. Rossetti, Morris, Meredith, Patmore, as well as several on Swinburne’s manuscripts. He has also published books and articles about Poe. He is preparing an edition of Ella D’Arcy’s correspondence.

Tony W. Garland has recently completed a doctoral dissertation on English Decadence and the femme fatale at the University of Northampton.

Yisrael Levin teaches English at the University of Victoria. He has published reviews and articles on Swinburne in Victorian Poetry and Victorian Review, and is the editor of A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work* (Ashgate, forthcoming).

Margot K. Louis was Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria at the time of her death in 2007. She published widely on Swinburne, including Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry (1990).

Catherine Maxwell is Professor of Victorian literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness, Swinburne, and Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature. She is also co-editor (with Patricia Pulham) of Vernon Lee, Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, and Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics. She has published on Browning, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [End Page 801] George Eliot, Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, Swinburne, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and Vernon Lee, and is guest-editor of the Victorian Review 2008 special issue in honour of the late Margot Louis.

Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, U. of Virginia. His most recent books, all published in 2009, are Byron’s Manfred (Pasdeloup Press), Are the Humanities Inconsequent? (Prickly Paradigm Press, Univ. of Chicago Press), and a facsimile edition with commentary and notes of Stephen Crane’s Black Riders and other lines (Rice University Press).

T. D. Olverson is a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and author of Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late Victorian Hellenism, as well as of essays on women’s travel writing and children’s literature.

Julia F. Saville is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of A Queer Chivalry: the Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000) as well as various articles on nineteenth-century poetry, painting, and politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled “Cosmopolitan Republican Poets: Poetic Bodies and the British Body Politic, 1840–1885.”

Katie Paterson completed her MA in English Literature under the supervision of the late Dr. Margot K. Louis at the University of Victoria (2006). Paterson began a Ph.D. program at the University of Ottawa but is currently an independent scholar, working as an editor back in Victoria, British Columbia. [End Page 802]

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