Biographies
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Seth Cayley is Publisher for Media History at Cengage Learning. He commissions and oversees the creation of digital archives of historical newspapers and periodicals, including The Times Digital Archive, The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, and Gale NewsVault, which allows users to cross-search all of these archives simultaneously. He has held a variety of roles in publishing and is passionate about the use of digital resources in teaching and learning. When not reading old newspapers, he dreams of completing a sub-three-hour marathon.
Elizabeth Gray is the author of Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry (Routledge, 2010) and the editor of the forthcoming Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She has published articles on women's religious verse in Victorian Poetry, Christianity and Literature, English Literature in Translation, and other journals, and created the Alice Meynell website at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Public/feg/alice/am1.html. Dr. Gray's areas of research include the poetry and journalism of Alice Meynell, and the impact of theological debates on Victorian women's verse. She is presently working on a new project focussing on food journalism in the Pall Mall Gazette. She teaches at Massey University, New Zealand, where she also teaches professional writing.
Peter C. Grosvenor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His work focuses on the intersections of history, politics, and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Natalie Houston is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. She has published on nineteenth-century women writers and [End Page 246] Victorian poetry and print culture. She is Project Director for the Visual Page, an NEH-funded project to develop a software application to analyze visual features in digitized Victorian books of poetry, such as margin space, line indentation, and typeface attributes. She is also co-director of the Periodical Poetry Index, a research database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, teaches Victorian literature and periodicals at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has contributed articles on pedagogy to a special issue of VPR (2006) and (with Michael Lund) to Teaching Nineteenth Century Fiction, ed. Andrew Maunder and Jennifer Phegley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Her most recent writing on periodicals ("Media by Bakhtin/Bakhtin Mediated") was a response to Dallas Liddle's The Dynamics of Genre in the inaugural book review forum of VPR (Fall 2011). She is the author most recently of The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and has recently co-edited with Sharon M. Harris the three-volume Feminist Reader: A History of Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Barbara Korte is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her research interests lie in British literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Her book publications include, among others, English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations (Macmillan, 2000), Represented Reporters: Images of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fiction (transcript, 2009), and The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007). She currently works on representations of history in British nineteenth-century magazines.
Lindsy Lawrence is Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. She completed her PhD at Texas Christian University in 2008. She teaches a variety of courses in nineteenth-century British literature, with special attention to publication history, gender roles, and the conventions of serial fiction. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining how domestic serials functioned as part of the editorial voice of the nineteenth-century family literary magazine. She is also co-director of the Periodical Poetry Index.
Kristin Mahoney is Assistant Professor of English at Western Washington University. She has published articles on Vernon Lee and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Criticism and Victorian Studies, and her scholarly edition of Frederick Rolfe's Hubert's Arthur was published by Valancourt Books. She [End Page 247] is currently working on a project on the afterlife of late Victorian aestheticism in the early twentieth century...
