Contributors
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Erika Behrisch is a Research Associate with the Disraeli Project at Queen's University, Canada. She recently completed her doctoral dissertation, “Voices of Silence, Texts of Truth: Imperial Discourse and Cultural Negotiations in Nineteenth-Century British Arctic Exploration Narrative,” in the Queen's English Department. She is interested in the genre of travel literature and its accompanying discourses, and recent publications include articles on William Blake and travel narrative, and Charles Dickens' and Wilkie Collins' involvement in the search for Sir John Franklin.
Alison Chapman is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti (2000). With Antony H. Harrison and Richard Cronin, she is the editor of The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002), and, with Jane Stabler, Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Artists and Writers in Italy (2002) and a special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies on British and Irish expatriate communities in Italy (2003). She is also the editor of the 2003 Essays and Studies collection of essays, Victorian Women Poets.
Gowan Dawson is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. Previously he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow on the Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (“SciPer”) Project at the University of Sheffield. He has published several articles on Victorian science and literature, and is currently completing a book entitled Evolutionary Ethics: Aestheticism, Obscenity and the Victorian Debates Over Darwinism.
Rowena Fowler is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She has co-edited two volumes of the Oxford Poetical Works of Robert Browning and published articles on Browning and other Victorian and twentieth-century writers. Further details are available on the web at http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~emrsmf/
Anna Henchman received her B.A. from Yale University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard English department. She is completing a dissertation entitled “Celestial Globes: Astronomy in Victorian Literature.”
Gage Mcweeny is completing a dissertation at Princeton University on nineteenth-century literature and social theory entitled “The Comfort of Strangers: Community and Modernity in Victorian Literature.” He has published on travel narratives and cannibalism in Critical Matrix.
Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked extensively on the relations between science and literature. Her recent books in this area include Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (1996), and, as co-editor with Jenny Bourne Taylor, Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830–1890 (1998). She is currently Co-Director, with Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds, of the AHRB and Leverhulme funded research project, Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (“SciPer”).
Jonathan Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination and numerous articles on Victorian literature and science. His current project is a book-length study of Darwin and Victorian visual culture.
Marion Thain is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She has published a number of papers on late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century poetry, and is the author of Michael Field and Poetic Identity; joint editor of Poetry of the 1890s; and general editor, with R.K.R. Thornton, of a series of reprinted prose texts, Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers.
