Biographies
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Gretchen Bartels is Assistant Professor of English at California Baptist University, Online and Professional Studies Division. She has published an article in Literature and Theology and contributed to the Instructor’s Manual for the St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. In addition, she has an upcoming poetry publication in KAIROS.
Margaret Beetham is the author of A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800–1914 (Routledge, 1996) and The Victorian Women’s Magazine: An Anthology, with Kay Boardman (Manchester UP, 2001), as well as edited volumes and a range of articles and chapters on the periodical press, cookery books, and histories of popular reading. She was one of the associate editors of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009). She also serves as an honorary research fellow at the University of Salford and as a senior advisor to the boards of RSVP and ESPRit.
Rachel Calder is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Studies at University College London, where she is researching the life and business practices of Joseph Whitaker, founder of the Bookseller, Whitaker’s Almanack, and The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature, in order to evaluate the role of the trade press and bibliographic publications in the Victorian book trade. She has an MA in history and has been a literary agent for the last thirty years.
Iain Crawford is Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning at the University of Delaware. His current book project examines the relationship between Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau and its implications for the formation of Victorian journalism and the emergence of the professional woman [End Page 530] author. Work from this project has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature and two essay collections, Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850–1870, and Dickens and Massachusetts: The Other America.
Laura Kasson Fiss teaches literature and diversity studies at Michigan Technological University. Her work has appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn and The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. Her article in this issue draws on a larger book project entitled The Idler’s Club: Humor and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse.
Maria Frawley is Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at George Washington University. A long-time member and former president of RSVP, she is currently working on a book titled Keywords of Jane Austen’s Fiction, as well as a study of closure and nineteenth-century narrative.
Richard Fulton is a visiting faculty member at Washington State University. He retired from full-time work in 2013 but has continued to review books, write, and work sporadically as an interim administrator, thus effectively failing at retirement. He is currently editing a second book of essays on the Victorians and the South Pacific, writing a book on Victorian boys’ culture, dabbling in fictional memoir, and managing the finances of VISAWUS.
Erica Haugtvedt is Senior Lecturer in English at Ohio State University. She specializes in the Victorian serial novel and the history of reading. She recently published “The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines” in Victorian Periodicals Review.
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her publications include Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855–1875 (2011), Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History (2002), and The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality and Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books (1995). The “ornamental turn” in her research informs her current work on Victorian magazines, including her digital scholarship on The Yellow Nineties Online (www.1890s.ca), which she co-edits.
Carol Hanbery MacKay is the J. R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches Victorian fiction, autobiography, and women’s and gender studies. She is the author of Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1987) and Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest (2001) and is [End Page 531] the editor of The Two Thackerays (1988) and Dramatic Dickens (1989). She...
