Biographies
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Kirstie Blair is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling. She is the author of two books on Victorian poetry, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (2006) and Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion (2012) as well as a number of articles and book chapters. She recently co-edited an essay collection on working-class poetics, Class & the Canon: Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1750–1900. She is currently working on a larger project on Scottish working-class poets and the newspaper press in the Victorian period.
Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birk-beck, University of London. Her research interests are media history, gender, digital humanities, and Walter Pater. She is the author of Subjugated Knowledges (1994) and Print in Transition (2001). She also co-edited W. T. Stead, Newspaper Revolutionary (2012), the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (www.ncse.ac.uk), and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (http://www.dncj.ugent.be). She is currently working on an edited collection of articles on the News of the World and a biography of Walter Pater, Clara Pater, and print culture titled Ink Work.
Marina Cano-López is currently a part-time lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and a research assistant at the University of St. Andrews. She holds a PhD from St. Andrews where she co-organised an international conference, “200 Years of Sense and Sensibility” (2011). She subsequently co-edited a special issue of Persuasions On-Line (2012), a journal produced by the Jane Austen Society of North America. She has also written essays on Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and gender theory. [End Page 312]
Fergus Dunne completed a doctoral thesis on the essays and journalism of Francis Sylvester Mahony (“Father Prout”). He has published articles on Mahony’s writings in European Romantic Review, Irish Studies Review, and the Irish Review.
Richard Fulton recently retired from a position as academic vice chancellor at the University of Hawaii–Windward Campus. He is a former president of RSVP and former editor of VPR. Currently he serves as an adjunct professor and visiting scholar at Washington State University. His co-edited essay collection, Oceania and the Victorian Imagination, was published in 2013.
Troy Gregory has made a career-long study of the works of Charles James Apperley and Robert Smith Surtees. His forthcoming book situates the distinctly English genre of sporting literature within the larger cultural and aesthetic framework of the nineteenth century. His current research involves the eleven volumes of unpublished letters of C. J. Apperley housed in the Marion duPont Scott Sporting Collection at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. He teaches British literature at Wayland University in Plainview, Texas.
Michael D. Lewis teaches at Washington and Jefferson College. He has published articles on the industrial novel, Elizabeth Gaskell, Punch, and the Reform Act of 1867. He is currently writing a book on violence and democracy in industrial fiction.
Carol Hanbery MacKay is the J. R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches nineteenth-century fiction, women’s and gender studies, and autobiography. She has published Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1987) and Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest (2001). In addition, she has edited The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Biographical Introductions to the Centennial Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1988), Dramatic Dickens (1989), and Annie Besant’s Autobiographical Sketches (2009).
Rebecca N. Mitchell is Associate Professor of English and Vice Provost Fellow at the University of Texas-Pan American. She is the author of Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Ohio State UP, 2011) and co-editor of the anniversary edition of George Meredith’s Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads (Yale UP, 2012). She is also co-author, with Joseph Bristow, of Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery (Yale UP, forthcoming 2014). [End Page 313] In her current monograph project, Victorian Genius: Literary Exceptionalism, 1837–1901, she explores the perpetuation of Romantic conventions of creative genius during Victoria’s reign...
