Biographies
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Barbara Barrow is a PhD candidate in English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her dissertation, provisionally titled "Fossil Poetry: Victorian Science and the Consecration of Language," explores the literary response to language study in the nineteenth century and engages with discourses on temporality.
Silvana Colella is Associate Professor of English at the University of Macerata (Italy). She is the author of Il genere nel testo poetico (1992), Romanzo e disciplina (1994), and Economia e letteratura (1999). Her publications in English include articles on Walter Scott, Fanny Burney, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Martineau, Dinah Mulock Craik, and the Malthusian plot in popular culture. She is currently working on a critical monograph on Charlotte Riddell's city novels.
John Drew is Professor of English Literature at the University of Buckingham, UK. He is currently directing an open-access online edition of Dickens's weekly journals (1850-70) under construction at www.djo.org.uk. He has published and co-edited books and articles relating to Victorian periodicals and Dickens's work as a journalist.
Erika Behrisch Elce is Assistant Professor of English at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her research interests lie mainly in nineteenth-century narratives of science and exploration as well as in the discursive tensions between official mandates of expeditions and explorers' lived experiences in the field. Her book As Affecting the Fate of My Absent Husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860 was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2009. [End Page 433]
Constance M. Fulmer is Associate Dean for Teaching and Assessment at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, and holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English literature. With Margaret E. Barfield, she published A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker in 1998 and is currently working on a biography of Simcox as well as a study of George Eliot's moral messages.
Ian Haywood is Professor of English at Roehampton University, London. His most recent books are The Gordon Riots (2012) and Romanticism and Caricature (forthcoming 2013), both published by Cambridge University Press. His current research centers on popular visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a special interest in the Chartist poet and engraver William James Linton.
Andrew King is Professor of English at the University of Greenwich, UK. He has published extensively on Victorian periodicals, specializing in neglected titles at either end of the mass-market and restricted-market spectrum. With Alexis Easley and John Morton, he is editing the Ashgate Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and a companion volume of case studies. His other area of publication is Victorian popular fiction, especially Ouida, whose biography he is currently writing.
David Latané teaches nineteenth-century British literature as well as contemporary Scottish writing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He serves as Associate Editor of Stand Magazine (Leeds). His most recent publication is William Maginn and the British Press: A Critical Biography (Ashgate, 2013).
Beth Palmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her publications include Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (2011) and a co-edited volume entitled A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (2011). She is currently working on a monograph considering the connections between the Victorian novel and the popular theatre.
Jennifer Scott is an instructor in the English department at Simon Fraser University, where she recently earned her PhD. Her current research investigates the influence of John Galt and his literary circle on the British literary marketplace and on the British corporate sector. Her work also explores the intersections of literature, political economy, and the imperial expansion project. [End Page 434]
Minna Vuohelainen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and MA Programme Leader at Edge Hill University. She studied international history at the London School of Economics and English literature at King's College London before completing a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. Her current research focuses on print culture, literary representations of London, and the discursive overlap between gothic fiction and factual discourses at the fin de siècle...
