Contributors
- Contributors
Jonathan Alexander is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the general editor of College Composition and Communication.
Stephen Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, a widely published poet, and a specialist in British romantic literature and culture, with special interests in Blake, the Shelleys, and romantic-era women writers.
Alan Bilansky earned a PhD in rhetoric and democracy from Penn State and recently completed a master’s degree in library and information science at the University of Illinois, where he works in instructional design. He is currently at work on a history of the information work of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and the nineteenth-century surveillance state.
Florence S. Boos is a professor at the University of Iowa, general editor of the William Morris Archive, and author/editor of several books on Pre-Raphaelitism and William Morris, most recently History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris: 1856–1870 (2015). Her Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology appeared in 2008.
Patrick C. Fleming is an assistant professor at Fisk University, where he specializes in Victorian literature and teaches a variety of courses in British literature, including Shakespeare. His book, The Legacy of the Moral Tale: Children’s Literature and the English Novel, 1744–1859, is forthcoming, and his current research interests include literary periodization, adaptation theory, and the history of literary studies.
Kelsey Forkner graduated from Illinois State University in 2014 with her master’s degree in children’s and young adult literature. Currently, she is living in Belton, Missouri, with her husband. She is the children’s specialist librarian at the Cass County Public Library Northern Resource Center, where she organizes and runs community outreach programming, maintains the collection, and offers readers’ advisory for library patrons ages 0–18. [End Page 377]
Susan George received her master’s degree in English studies from Illinois State University in 2015. She currently lives in Champaign, Illinois, and works in local nonprofit administration and grant writing in order to serve low-income families in the county.
Daniel M. Gross is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he has served as director of composition, campus writing coordinator, and director of the writing center. His primary field is the history and theory of rhetoric, with special attention to emotion studies. His books include The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” to Modern Brain Science (2006).
Mary Hedengren is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, studies Victorian literature and culture with special interests in historical media (poetry and print culture, periodicals, serial fiction), gender and women’s studies, and transnationality. Her most recent books include The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010); A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (2013), coedited with Sharon M. Harris; and Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture (2015), coedited with Sarah R. Robbins.
Jade Kierbow Loicano is a lecturer in the Department of English and Philosophy at the University of West Georgia and is a member of the First-Year Writing Program faculty. Though her focus in the program is teaching composition and rhetoric, she also teaches a public speaking course, as well as an interdisciplinary course about the influence of American media on American culture.
Kari Lokke is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (1987) and Tracing Women’s Romanticism: Gender, History and Transcendence (2004) and coeditor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, with Adriana Craciun (2001). She has also written articles on the aesthetics of the sublime and the grotesque, romantic-era fairy tales, and women poets of the romantic era. She is currently working on a book about depictions of political and religious enthusiasm and fanaticism in nineteenth-century European literature. [End Page 378]
Josette Lorig is a doctoral student in the Department of...
