Biographies
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Charlotte Boman is a PhD candidate at Cardiff University, Wales. Her research interests include nineteenth-century visual and material cultures. Her current project, “Domestic Iconography: Photographic Representations of Family Life in the Mid- to Late-Victorian Period,” examines the visual and textual interplay between new technologies, commodity culture, and family ideology.
Richard J. Butler is a Gates Scholar and doctoral student at the University of Cambridge. He is also a visiting Fulbright Fellow in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research addresses the culture and politics of public architectural production in Ireland, 1800–1860. He has previously published on British colonial architecture in India.
Kellie Holzer is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan College, where she teaches courses on South Asian literature and Victorian literature and culture. She has published essays in South Asian Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Jane J. Lee is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she teaches courses on Victorian literature and culture. Her research interests include Victorian reading theories and practices, print culture, publishing histories, education, and pedagogy.
Emma Liggins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her recent publications include Odd Women?: Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women’s Fiction, 1850s–1930s (2014), “The Modern Spinster’s Lot in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s One Doubtful Hour” (2012), and (with Andrew Maunder & Ruth Robbins) The British [End Page 654] Short Story (2011). Her article on Woman and the Young Woman was published in Victorian Periodicals Review in 2009.
Richard Menke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia and the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (2008). His most recent publications include articles on late Victorian fictions of the telephone (Victorian Studies) and on electricity and objectivity in nineteenth-century journalism (English Language Notes). He is at work on a book about the invention of media in the late nineteenth century.
Elizabeth Penner is a PhD candidate at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she is writing her thesis, “The Fashioning of Victorian Masculinity in the Boy’s Own Paper, 1879–1913.” Her project examines how the paper dealt with nineteenth-century perceptions of masculinity and manliness, drawing on debates surrounding Victorian ideals of self-help and philanthropy, the treatment of female contributors and readers, and the increasing hero-worship of public schoolboys and athletes.
Teja Varma Pusapati is a doctoral student in English at the University of Oxford. Her thesis examines models of female professional authorship in Victorian England. She recently published an article in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies on Emily Crawford’s career as a female foreign correspondent.
Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her books include Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East (2012) and Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain (2005). Her co-authored textbook, Britain since 1688, is forthcoming from Routledge. [End Page 655]
