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Barbara Barrow is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. In 2014, she received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. 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 drawn from this project have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Victorian Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2016 Visiting Scholars Research Fellowship from the Armstrong Browning Library.
Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birk-beck, University of London. She has written Print in Transition, Subjugated Knowledges, and Walter Pater, and she has edited a number of books on the press and on Pater. Her recent work includes the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (www.ncse.ac.uk) and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, co-edited with Marysa Demoor. She also co-edited W. T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary in 2012 and a special issue on Stead for 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (www.19.bbk.ac.uk). A co-edited book on the News of the World will appear this year. She is currently writing Ink Work, a biography of Walter and Clara Pater, and editing volume 5 of The Collected Works on Pater’s journalism.
Emma Butcher is an AHRC-funded doctoral candidate at the University of Hull. Her research explores the Brontës’ representations of conflict and military masculinity in their juvenilia. She represents postgraduate students on the BAVS Executive Committee and recently co-curated a major exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage to commemorate the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo. [End Page 630]
Ann Collins is an independent scholar and chemist in the Australian paper industry whose ancestry includes several veterans of the Napoleonic Wars.
Marysa Demoor is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2011, she was also the holder of the Van Dyck chair at UCLA. She is the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920 (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of 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 the cross-fertilisation between Northern Belgium and Britain during the long nineteenth century.
Tom Gretton is Honorary Research Fellow in the History of Art at University College London. His scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century print culture, particularly the work of J. G. Posada and general-interest, up-market illustrated weekly news magazines in the United Kingdom and France from 1840 to 1914. Recent publications include “Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) at the Illustrated London News” in Victorian Periodicals Review (2015); “Calaveras and Commodity Fetishism: The Unhallowed Supernatural in the Work of José Guadalupe Posada” in Re/New Marxist Art History (2013); and “Industrialised Graphic Technologies in Symbiosis with the World of Art: the Illustrated London News and the Graphic c. 1870c. 1890” in Art versus Industry?: Industrialised Graphic Technologies in Symbiosis with the World of Art (forthcoming 2016).
Christopher M. Keirstead is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, where his research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture, poetry, and travel writing. His book, Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism, was published by Ohio State University Press in 2011. His forthcoming work includes contributions to the Cambridge History of Travel Writing and the Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing and an article, “Dickens, Travel Disorientation, and the Emergence of the Modern Literary Travel Essay: or, ‘A Flight’ (and ‘Night Walks’) on Flight,” in Studies in Travel Writing. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Repeat Engagements: Continuities of Mobility, Modernity, and Form in Travel Writing since the Nineteenth Century.
Tom O’Malley is Emeritus Professor of Media...
