Contributors
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Suzanne Bailey is Associate Professor of English at Trent University, and author of Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning's Poetry (Routledge 2010).
Florence S. Boos, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, has written monographs on the works of Dante G. Rossetti and William Morris and has edited Morris' Socialist Diary, his Earthly Paradise, and Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology. She is also the general editor of the virtual Morris Edition (http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu) and has recently completed a manuscript devoted to Morris' early poems and essays.
Alison Chapman is Associate Professor of English in the University of Victoria, Canada. She is the author of The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti and is the Director of the Victorian Poetry Network (www.victorianpoetry.net), which will soon publish phase 1 of a Database of Victorian Periodical Poetry. "Networking the Nation," a study of the British and American expatriate poets of the Risorgimento, is nearing completion, and she is also at work on a SSHRC-supported monograph on Victorian literature and Europe.
Frank Fennell is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. He is author or editor of six books, primarily on Victorian literature, including Rereading Hopkins: Selected New Essays, and he has published numerous articles, especially on Hopkins. His current project is a book on Hopkins and his readers.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, is the author most recently of Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (2005), and The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010), which approaches poetry in the context of print culture. Two recent essays have appeared in VP: "Inventing Poetry and Pictorialism in Once a Week: A Magazine of Visual Effects" (Spring 2010), and "Ironizing Prosody in John Davidson's 'A Ballad in Blank Verse'" (Summer 2011).
Andrew Kay is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is completing a dissertation entitled "Embodied Pleasure and Radical Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Poetry," a project he hopes to [End Page 441] craft into a book. His work forges links between Romantic and Victorian poetry, aesthetics, and politics, Anglophone literature and the world of writing beyond it.
Yisrael Levin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the editor of A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work (Ashgate, 2010) and the author of Swinburne's Apollo: Myth, Faith, and Victorian Spirituality (Ashgate, 2013).
Clinton Machann is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Among his publications are The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994), The Essential Matthew Arnold: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Sources (1993), Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life (1998), and Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading (2010).
Rosemarie Morgan, lecturer and research fellow at Yale University from 1984-2008, is president of The Thomas Hardy Association and Vice President of The Thomas Hardy Society. She is editor of the bi-annual The Hardy Review and author of Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (1988: in preparation for a new edition), Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1992), A Student Companion to Thomas Hardy (2007) and editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy (2010). She has also published on Toni Morrison, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Chesnut, and Frontier women diarists. She is currently editing a collection of J. Hillis Miller's essays on Hardy.
Marjorie Stone, McCulloch Chair in English, Dalhousie University, is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1995), co-editor of Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship (2006), co-editor of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems (Broadview, 2009), and volume co-editor for three of five volumes in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Pickering and Chatto, 2010, General Editor Sandra Donaldson).
Joanna Swafford is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Virginia, specializing in Victorian poetry, sound studies, and digital humanities. Her dissertation, "Transgressive Tunes and the Music of Victorian Poetry," traces the gendered intermediations of poetry and music, and she has published in...
