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  • Biographies

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and Affiliate Faculty in English, Asian Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Film and Media Studies. She is the author of The Victorian Artist: Artists’ Life Writings in Britain, ca. 1870–1910 (2003, 2012). She has also edited a number of books, including Transculturation in British Art, 1770–1930 (2012), Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars (2011), The Political Economy of Art (2008), Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema (2007), and Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press (2003).

Caley Ehnes is a doctoral student at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation, “Writing with ‘one hand for the booksellers’: Victorian Poetry, Illustration, and the Literary Periodical,” examines how popular poetry published in illustrated periodicals of the 1860s interacts with dominant literary forms and cultural questions of the era. Her current research focuses on Isa Craig and the periodical networks that existed between nineteenth-century Edinburgh and London.

M. Melissa Elston is a doctoral student at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, who specializes in rhetoric and visual culture. Her previous publications have explored the historical relationships between nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and European art movements, particularly Pre-Raphaelitism.

Richard Fulton is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Hawaii–Windward Community College. He is past president of RSVP, former editor of VPR, and one of the founders of the Victorian Interdisciplinary [End Page 509] Studies Association of the Western United States. He has published over sixty articles, reviews, and books on Victorian studies and is coeditor with Peter Hoffenburg of Oceania and the Victorian Imagination, to be released by Ashgate in Spring 2013.

Andrew Hobbs is Research Associate in the School of Journalism & Digital Communications at the University of Central Lancashire. He is an associate editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism responsible for the local and regional press. He was a recipient of a 2012 Curran Fellowship to assist with editing the diaries of Anthony Hewitson, a Victorian provincial newspaper reporter and editor. His publications include “When the Provincial Press Was the National Press (c.1836–c.1900),” which was published in the International Journal of Regional and Local Studies in 2009.

Shauna Huffaker is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Windsor in Canada. She has studied at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and the American University of Cairo.

Kate Krueger is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Arkansas State University. She has published on Virginia Woolf, George Egerton, and Charlotte Mew, and her article on Evelyn Sharp is forthcoming in Women’s Writing. Her current book project explores women short story writers’ impact on cultural conversations regarding the Woman Question.

Katherine Malone is Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage at Temple University. Her research focuses on gender and genre in nineteenth-century literary criticism. She is currently completing a book on the role of women critics in Victorian periodicals. Her work on Anne Thackeray Ritchie has appeared in English Literature in Transition.

Rose Novak recently received her PhD in English from the University of Connecticut, where she focused on nineteenth-century Irish women writers. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Writing Ireland’s Wrongs: Women, Politics, and Violence in the Victorian Era. She has published in Éire-Ireland and History Ireland.

Juliette Berning Schaefer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, where she teaches British literature and composition. Her research interests include Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy, women’s studies, pedagogy, and composition. She is currently working on a book about Hardy’s short stories. She has reviewed several books for VPR. [End Page 510]

Casey Smith is Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC. He teaches book history on the faculty of Corcoran’s MA program, “Art and the Book.” He has a PhD in English literature and Victorian studies from Indiana University–Bloomington and writes and lectures on late nineteenth-century biblio-culture.

Laura Vorachek is Assistant...

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