Biographies
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Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. She co-edited with Marysa Demoor the print and digital Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009) and directed the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008) (www.ncse.ac.uk). Among other publications, her books include The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press, co-edited with Marysa Demoor (2009); Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers, coedited with Julie Codell (2005); Print in Transition, Studies in Media and Book History (2001); and Subjugated Knowledges (1994).
Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History, Arizona State University, and an affiliate in Film and Media Studies, English, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Asian Studies. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003) and Images of an Idyllic Past: Edward Curtis’s Photographs (1988). She edited The Art of Transculturation (2012); Photography and the Imperial Durbars of British India (2011); The Political Economy of Art (2008); Genre, Gender, Race, World Cinema (2007); and Imperial Co-Histories (2003); and co-edited Encounters in the Victorian Press with Laurel Brake (2004) and Orientalism Transposed with Dianne Macleod (1998), now translated into Japanese (2011).
Marysa Demoor is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, Belgium, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. During 2011 she also holds the Van Dyck Chair at UCLA. Demoor is author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920 (2000) and editor [End Page 207] of Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self- Fashioning, 1880–1930 (2004). With Laurel Brake she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press (2009) and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009).
Alexis Easley is Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her first book, First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, was published in 2004. Her second book, Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, was published by Delaware UP in 2011. Easley’s articles have appeared in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, and other journals. Her work has also been published in book collections, including Clio’s Daughters: British Women Making History, edited by Lynette Felber, and Victorian Women Writers and the ‘Woman Question,’ edited by Nicola Thompson.
Laura M. Keigan is a PhD candidate in English at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include depictions of Shakespeare’s heroines in the periodical press, and her article “Other Ophelias: The Subversion of Ophelia’s Mythic Identity in Nineteenth-Century Magazine Verse” will be published in the forthcoming volume Inhabited By Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold, edited by Nancy Barta-Smith and Danette Dimarco.
Dan Kline is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University, Lancaster. His research interests lie in Victorian poetry. He has published work on Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, and John Keble.
Frederick Morel is a PhD candidate in the English Department of Ghent University, where he is working on a research project funded by the Flemish Science Foundation which focuses on the cultural interaction between Belgium and Britain around the turn of the century. He is also a writer of fiction. His debut novel, The Ferris Wheel, was recently published in the UK by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press.
Laura Rotunno is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. The article published in this special issue is part of a new research undertaking in which she is investigating the education sought by nineteenth-century British civil servants as well as shop girls and nurses, an exploration that takes her into many specialist press periodicals. She is also revising a book manuscript in which she explores how nineteenth-century British novelists used the rhetoric surrounding the British Post Office in their explorations of the Victorian literary marketplace. [End Page 208]
Joanne Shattock teaches at the Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester. She has recently edited The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1830–1914 (2010) and is currently general editor, with Elisabeth Jay, of a twenty-five volume edition of the Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant. Her edition of...
