Biographies
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Grace Beekman is a graduate student at the University of St. Thomas. Her current research investigates affect and femininity in the Victorian sensation novel using quantitative methods of analysis. She also works as an editorial assistant for VPR.
Priti Joshi is Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in the Gender Studies and Asian Studies Programs at the University of Puget Sound. She has written on the Brontës, Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Henry Mayhew, and Edwin Chadwick, and she is currently completing a monograph entitled Empire News on mid-nineteenth-century English-language Indian newspapers.
Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her publications include English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations (Macmillan, 2000), The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (Penguin, 2007), and Poverty in Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She is currently a member of the Freiburg collaborative research centre on heroes and heroisation.
Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, with special interests in transnationality, gender and women’s studies, and historical media (periodicals, serial fiction, and poetry and print culture). Her most recent books include The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2010); A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (4 vols., Cambridge UP, 2013), coedited with Sharon M. Harris; and Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture, coedited with Sarah R. Robbins (Edinburgh UP, 2015). [End Page 365]
Amy Kahrmann Huseby is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation, “Quantified Lives: Victorian Women’s Poetry, Biopolitics, and the Nineteenth-Century Statistical Imaginary,” considers how poets concerned themselves formally and thematically with counting as a form of social control. She has previously published articles on Ezra Pound’s Cantos and Virginia Woolf’s poetics, which earned the Alexander B. Chambers MA Essay Prize and Chair’s PhD Prize, respectively, at her home institution. In spring 2016, she served as guest editor for a special issue of Victoriographies entitled “Longevity Networks,” in which contributors explored material, intertextual, and intermedial networks illustrative of the transhistorical nature of literature.
Teja Varma Pusapati is a doctoral student in English at the University of Oxford. Her thesis examines English women’s social and political journalism from the mid-Victorian era. She has published articles on women’s foreign correspondence and feminist journalism in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and Victorian Periodicals Review.
Laura Vorachek is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton. She has published articles on Victorian literature, nineteenth-century musical culture, and nineteenth-century periodicals in Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. She is currently working on a study of female reporters and the New Journalism.
Susan Walton is Honorary Research Associate in the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Hull. She is the author of Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era: Charlotte Yonge’s Models of Manliness (Ashgate, 2010) and has published articles on various aspects of Victorian history and literature in the Journal of Victorian Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Women’s Writing, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. Her research focuses on conservative women writers, as well as scholars and missionaries of the long nineteenth century. [End Page 366]
