Contributors
- Contributors
Antoinette Burton (aburton@illinois.edu) teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies. Her most recent books are A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke, 2012) and Brown Over Black: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (Three Essays Collective, 2012). She and Tony Ballantyne have co-written Empire and the Reach of the Global (Harvard, forthcoming). With Isabel Hofmeyr, she is working on an edited collection entitled 10 Books That Changed the Modern British Empire.
Joanna de Groot (joanna.degroot@york.ac.uk) works on colonial and imperial history, and on orientalism, with particular interests in gender, Iran, India, and historiography. Recent publications include "Whose Revolution? Stakeholders and Stories of the Constitutional Movement in Iran, 1905-11" in H. Chehabi and V. Martin, Iran's Constitutional Revolution, and "Oriental Feminotopias? Montagu's and Montesquieu's 'seraglios' Revisited," Gender and History 2006. She is currently completing a book on empire and British history writing.
Elaine Freedgood (ef38@nyu.edu), Professor of English at NYU, is the author of Victorian Writing about Risk (Cambridge, 2000) and The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago, 2006), and the editor of Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2003). She has had articles, most recently, in New Literary History and the Journal of Victorian Culture. Her current project concerns fictionality, reference, and meta-lepsis in the novel from the eighteenth century to the present (possibly).
Daniel Hack (dhack@umich.edu) is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel (2005). His article in this issue is drawn from the book he is currently writing on the uses of Victorian literature in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American literature and print culture.
Christopher Hamlin (christopher.s.hamlin.1@nd.edu) is Professor of History and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His interest in Charles Kingsley is part of a larger project exploring the intersection between natural theology and human ecology in nineteenth-century Britain.
Susan Dabney Pennybacker (pennybac@email.unc.edu) is the author of A Vision for London, 1889-1914 (Routledge, 1995), and From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton, 2009), Her work-in-progress is entitled "Fire By Night, Cloud By Day: Exile, Refuge and Dissent in Postwar London." In 2010, [End Page 387] Pennybacker joined the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is the Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of Modern European History.
Gregory Vargo (vargo.greg@gmail.com) is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at New York University. Previous publications include articles on Harriet Martineau and the radical press and on the short fiction of the Chartist author Thomas Cooper.
Tony Ballantyne (tony.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz) is Professor of History at the University of Otago. In 2012 Bridget Williams Books will publish a collection of his essays entitled Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past. His ongoing work focuses on the interfaces between economics and cultural production in the colonization of southern New Zealand.
Troy J. Bassett (bassettt@ipfw.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is the author of numerous articles on British book history and At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 (www.victorianresearch.org/atcl).
Daniel Bivona (dbivona@asu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He has authored or co-authored three books: Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature (1990), British Imperial Literature 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire (1998), and (with Roger B. Henkle) The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (2006). He is currently at work on a study of character and competition in the nineteenth century entitled The Natural and Social History of Pluck: The Victorian Discourse on Character and Competition.
Monica F. Cohen (mlf1@columbia.edu) is Adjunct Assistant Professor...
