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Kaitlyn Abrams is a graduate of Western Washington University. Her research interests include environmental writing and religious and feminist influences in Victorian literature. She published an article in Occam’s Razor and recently spent a semester teaching English in the Republic of Georgia. She is currently writing a novel and pursuing graduate study at the University of Maine.
Barbara Barrow is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. She received her doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis in August 2014. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, Political Dialects: Language, Science, and the Victorian Epic, which argues that Victorian authors used language-science, or the study of human speech, as a powerful means of engaging with the rise of the liberal state. Articles from this project have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Victorian Poetry.
Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birk-beck, University of London. Her recent work includes the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition, a digital edition of seven nineteenth-century periodicals (www.ncse.ac.uk), and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, co-edited with Marysa Demoor. In 2012–13, she co-edited W. T. Stead, Newspaper Revolutionary, co-organized a centenary conference on Stead at the British Library, and co-edited a special issue on Stead for 19: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She is currently co-editing a collection of articles on the News of the World for Palgrave and is writing Ink Work, a biography of Walter and Clara Pater. She is editor of volume five of Pater’s journalism in the forthcoming Collected Works (Oxford UP). [End Page 292]
Jessica Campbell is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, where she has taught courses on fairy tales and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She has published articles in Dickens Quarterly and in a collection on the Mad Men television series.
Seth Cayley is Director of Research Publishing at Cengage Learning. He has given a number of presentations on digital archives at academic conferences, and in 2012, he published an article on teaching and learning with digital resources in VPR.
Marysa Demoor is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2011, she also held the Van Dyck chair at UCLA. Her publications include Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920 (Ashgate, 2000) and Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880–1930 (Palgrave, 2004). With Laurel Brake, she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press (Palgrave, 2009) and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (British Library and Academia Press, 2009). Her current research focuses on cross-fertilization between Belgium and Britain in the long nineteenth century.
Anne DeWitt is Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Gall-atin School for Individualized Study. She is the author of Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel (Cambridge, 2013). Her contribution to this special issue is part of a larger study of the reception of theological novels.
Caley Ehnes is Instructor of English in the University Studies program at the College of the Rockies. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Victoria in 2014. Her dissertation, “Writing with ‘one hand for the booksellers’: Victorian Poetry and the Illustrated Literary Periodical of the 1860s,” focused on the relevance of periodicals to the history of Victorian poetry and poetics. She has published articles on the poetry printed in Good Words and Once a Week in Victorian Periodicals Review and Victorians, and in spring 2014 she co-edited an issue of Victorian Poetry on periodical verse.
Linda Friday is a graduate teaching assistant and funded doctoral candidate in the Department of English and History at Edge Hill University. She has research interests in both digital pedagogy and the Gothic novel and has delivered a range of papers at major international conferences. Linda is also a team member and inaugural blogger of the Higher Education Academy–funded e-learning project “e-Gothicist,” a web-based scholarly resource. [End Page 293...
