Contributors
- Contributors
Lee Behlman is an Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is currently writing a book on Victorian Stoicism and has recently published essays in Nineteenth-Century Prose and the Jewish studies journal Shofar. He has begun work on a second book project on Jews and nineteenth-century biblical hermeneutics.
Nicholas Frankel teaches English at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the author of Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000), as well as a contributor to The Victorian Illustrated Book, ed. R. Maxwell (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2002). He is currently writing a history of Victorian ideas about decoration and ornament titled The Discourse of Decoration: Design and Visual Mediation in Victorian Britain.
Erik Gray is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. Among his recent publications is the new Norton Criticial Edition of Tennyson's In Memoriam. He is currently writing a book on Milton and the Victorians.
Anne Hartman lectures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is working on a book entitled Confession in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Politics and Poetics of a Cultural Form, and a study of Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon.
Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. She is author of a Tennyson monograph and co-author (with Michael Lund) of books on Victorian serial literature and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her recent work includes an anthology of New Woman Poets (Eighteen Nineties Society, 2001) and a forthcoming biography of Rosamund Marriott Watson (“Graham R. Tomson”) (Ohio University Press).
Ivan Kreilkamp is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, where he is also co-editor of Victorian Studies. He has published in Novel, VS, MP, The Nation, and elsewhere, and is completing revisions on a manuscript entitled “The Endangered Voice: Victorian Fiction and the Myth of the Storyteller.”
Stephanie Kuduk is Assistant Professor of Romantic and Victorian literature in the English Department at Wesleyan University. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1999. Her recently completed manuscript, “Republican Aesthetics: Poetry and Democracy in England, 1789–1874,” explores the relation between democratic politics, political thought, and poetic form. Her current research concerns the history of aesthetics, poetics, and the philosophy of language.
Charles Laporte is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. His dissertation concerns Victorian poetic ambition and the higher criticism. He has published articles in VP and VLC.
Margaret Linley is an Assistant Professor of English and member of the Print Culture Specialized MA program at Simon Fraser University. She has published articles on Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and Victorian poetry and culture. She is currently working on a book project on nineteenth-century illustrated literary annuals.
William R. McKelvy, Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of “Much Better Burnt: Reading Arthur's Return by the Light of Troy,” in King Arthur's Modern Return, “Primitive ballads, modern criticism, ancient skepticism: Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome,” in VLC, and other works on George Eliot and William Ewart Gladstone. He is currently finishing his first book, The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1770–1880, a portion of which, entitled “Ways of Reading 1825: Leisure, Curiosity, and Morbid Eagerness,” will appear in the forthcoming volume John Keble and His Contexts.
Monique R. Morgan is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at McGill University. She is currently completing a book on time, lyric, and narrative in the nineteenth-century long poem.
James Najarian is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality and Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Lee O'Brien teaches at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is writing a doctoral thesis on forgotten nineteenth-century women poets.
Cornelia D. J. Pearsall is an Associate Professor of English at Smith College. Her book Tennyson's Rapture is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is working on two other books, Imperial Tennyson and Loved Remains: The Materialization of Mourning in Victorian Britain.
John M. Picker, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of Victorian Soundscapes (Oxford, 2003).
Jason Rudy has just finished his dissertation...
