Contributors
- Contributors
Antoinette Burton is the author of several books and numerous articles on gender, empire, and Victorian Britain. Her latest monograph is Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late-Colonial India (Oxford 2003).
Elaine Freedgood, an associate professor of English at NYU, is the author of Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge 2000) and the editor of a volume in the Victorian Archives series, Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford 2003). Two new projects are in the works: one on Victorian anticommodity discourse, and one on commodity fetishism, realism, and the social destruction of interpretability.
Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Her work for the last decade has focused on the interconnections of the British metropole and empire in the nineteenth century. She is an editor of History Workshop Journal.
Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author, most recently, of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877–1998 (2000), and joint editor of “The Tempest” and Its Travels (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (2002).
Tamara Ketabgian is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she teaches nineteenth-century British literature, critical theory, science fiction, the Enlightenment period, and the history of technology. She recently received an ACLS grant to complete a book entitled “The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture.”
Sharon Marcus currently teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999), and is currently completing a book about female homoeroticism and the Victorian family. She has recently written articles on Victorian fashion and on the British reception of nineteenth century French literature about lesbians.
Thomas Recchio is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut where he directs the Freshman English Program. He has published widely in composition studies in such journals as College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and WPA:Writing Program Administration. His work on Elizabeth Gaskell has appeared in Studies in English Literature (Japan), College Literature, and The Gaskell Society Journal. This article is part of a larger project tentatively called “The Cultural Uses of Cranford,” which will have chapters on illustrated editions and dramatic adaptations of Cranford, its Victorian reception, and its place in Anglo-American criticism since 1950.
Irene Tucker is an associate professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract and the Jews. Her current project attempts to produce a material history of race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by examining the various intersections o f medicine, technologies of vision like photography and microscopy, and the discourses of public opinion and party politics.
Robert D. Aguirre, who received his PhD from Harvard, teaches in the English department at Wayne State University in Detroit. Recent articles on Victorian autobiography and nineteenth-century panoramas have appeared, respectively, in Genre 35.1 (2002) and Biography 25.4 (2002). Imperial Objects: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in fall 2004.
David Arnold is Professor of South Asian History at The School of Oriental and African Studies. His publications include Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras, 1858–1947 (1986), Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change (1988), Colonising the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993), and The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion (1996).
Barbara Caine is Professor of History at Monash University. Her books include Destined To Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb (1986), Victorian Feminists (1992), and English Feminism, 1780–1980 (1997), and Gendering European History (coauthor, 2000). She is currently working on a book called “From Bombay to Bloomsbury: Imperialism, Sexuality and Modernity in the Strachey Family.”
Joseph W. Childers teaches English at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently completing “The Empire Within,” a study of representations of the imperialized other within England during the...
