Contributors
- Contributors
Cannon Schmitt, the author of Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (1997), teaches English at Duke University. His current book-in-progress is titled "Savage Mnemonics: South America, Victorian Science, and the Reinvention of the Human."
Nancy Henry is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge UP, 2002) and is working on a book about women, gender, and the nineteenth-century culture of investment.
Anjali Arondekar is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Smith College from 1999–2001. She has published variously in Journal of Asian Studies, Symploke, Interventions, Village Voice, and Postmodern Culture and is currently working on a book-manuscript, "A Perverse Empire: Victorian Sexuality and India."
Mary Poovey is the Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is A History of the Modern Fact (Chicago, 1998). She has also edited The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain (OUP, 2002).
Audrey Jaffe is the author of Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (U of California, 1991), and Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 2000). A Research Associate at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, she is writing a book about the graph in Victorian and contemporary culture.
Timothy Alborn is Associate Professor of History at Lehman College and the City University of New York. His publications include Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (Routledge, 1998) and "Senses of Belonging: The Politics of Working Class Insurance in Britain, 1880–1914," Journal of Modern History (2001). He is presently working on a book about the cultural and social ramifications of life insurance in Victorian Britain.
Donna Loftus is a lecturer in history at the Open University whose work has focused on industrialization and urbanization. Her essay, co-authored with Robert Gray, on "Industrial Regulation, Urban Space and the Boundaries of the Workplace" was published in Urban History (1999). She is currently involved in projects on cultural conceptions of the self, the market, and society. [End Page 205]
David C. Itzkowitz, Professor of History at Macalester College, is the author of Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753–1885. He has also published essays on the history of gambling in England and on the creation of identity among nineteenth-century English Jews and continues to work on both of these topics.
Tim Barringer is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. He is author of Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1999) and co-author with Andrew Wilton of American Sublime (2002), catalogue of an exhibition held at Tate Britain. He has written widely on Victorian visual culture and is currently completing a book on representations of labour in mid-Victorian Britain.
James Buzard teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the author of The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to "Culture," 1800–1918 (Oxford, 1993). He is currently writing Anywhere's Nowhere: Fictions of Autoethnography in the United Kingdom (Princeton, forthcoming) and co-editing a collection of essays on the afterlife of the Great Exhibition of 1851. His essays have appeared in The Yale Journal of Criticism, Raritan, Victorian Studies, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, and other journals and books.
Deirdre David is the author, most recently, of Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing (Cornell, 1995). She is currently at work on a critical biography of Fanny Kemble, nineteenth-century actress and author.
Melissa Valiska Gregory completed her PhD in Victorian Literature at Indiana University. She has published on nineteenth-century poetry and family violence, and is currently working on a project on narratives of domestic terror and psychological cruelty in Victorian culture. She recently joined the University of Toledo as an Assistant Professor of English.
A. James Hammerton is Reader in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is the author of Emigrant Gentlewomen (1979), Cruelty and Companionship (1993) and articles on migration...
