Biographies
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Alexis Antonia has been a research assistant at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing since its inception in 1989. In this capacity, she has worked on many and varied research projects. Following her introduction to the field of Victorian journalism, she began using the techniques of computational stylistics to explore periodicals, leading to the completion of her doctorate in 2009. A recent collaboration has introduced her to the field of Australian goldfields journalism.
Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She specialises in detective fiction and the literature and culture of the late Victorian era. Her research has been published in CLUES, Women’s Writing, and Victorian Literature and Culture. Her monograph, Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
Hugh Craig works at the University of Newcastle in Australia, where he is Deputy Head of the Faculty of Education and Arts and Director of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Most of his work is in early modern English drama. In collaborations with Alexis Antonia, John Drew, and Ellen Jordan, he has also published articles on authorship in nineteenth-century British and Australian periodicals
Tom Gretton is Honorary Research Fellow in the History of Art at UCL. He works on nineteenth-century print culture, particularly on the work of J. G. Posada and on general-interest, up-market illustrated weekly news magazines in Great Britain and France from 1840 to 1914. Recent publications include “From La Méduse to the Titanic: Géricault’s Raft in Journalistic [End Page 152] Illustration up to 1912,” in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (May 2013), and “Calaveras and Commodity Fetishism: The Unhallowed Supernatural in the Work of José Guadalupe Posada,” in Re/New Marxist Art History, edited by W. Carter, B. Haran, and F. Schwartz (Art Books, 2013).
Ann M. Hale is a doctoral student at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the relationship between nineteenth-century legal periodicals and the development and consolidation of professional identity. Her other research interests include legal advice columns in general-audience periodicals and villainesses in Victorian crime and detective fiction.
Amy M. King is Associate Professor of English at St. John’s University, Queens, NY. She is the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (Oxford University Press, 2003, 2007), as well as articles in Common Knowledge, Victorian Studies, Victorian Review, Romanticism and Victorianism Online, Novel, ELN, and BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History, 1775–1925. She is currently finishing a book project entitled The Divine Commonplace: Natural History, Theologies of Nature, and the Novel in Britain, 1789–1865.
Brian Maidment is Professor of the History of Print at Liverpool John Moores University. His most recent publications include Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820–50 (Manchester University Press, 2013) and a book of essays, Persistent Ruskin, co-edited with Keith Hanley (Ashgate, 2013). He is currently completing a book on the comic artist Robert Seymour.
Annemarie McAllister has published research on nineteenth-century representations of Italians in periodicals, travel writing, and novels (John Bull’s Italian Snakes and Ladders, 2007). More recently, she published several articles and book chapters on UK temperance history. She also edited a special issue of Visual Resources on “The Pleasures and Problems of Drink” (Winter 2012). Her latest book, Demon Drink? Temperance and the Working Class (2014), is a popular history intended to complement the three exhibitions she has curated, including the ongoing virtual site at www.demondrink.co.uk. The forthcoming Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals includes her chapter, “Temperance Periodicals.”
Robert O’Kell is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Film & Theatre, and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba. His recent book, Disraeli: The Romance of Politics, was published [End Page 153] by the University of Toronto Press in 2013 and is now available in a paperback edition.
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. Her books include monographs (British Women’s...
