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Paula Bartley (drpaulabartley@outlook.com) has been promoting women’s history for most of her adult life. In 1983, she co-founded Cambridge University Press’s Women in History series. Her sole-authored books include Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860–1914 (2000), Emmeline Pankhurst (2002), and Ellen Wilkinson: From Red Suffragist to Government Minister (2014). Her latest biography is Queen Victoria (2016).

Troy J. Bassett (bassettt@ipfw.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. He is the author of several articles on Victorian book history and At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901 (www.victorianresearch.org/atcl). He has just completed a book manuscript on the history of the Victorian three-volume novel.

Arianne Chernock (chernock@bu.edu) is Associate Professor of British History at Boston University, and the author of Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism (2009). She is currently writing a book on Queen Victoria and the women’s rights movement.

Mary Jean Corbett (corbetmj@miamioh.edu) is University Distinguished Professor of English at Miami University. She is the author, most recently, of Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf (2008). Her current research project is tentatively entitled “Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts.”

Rosalind Crone (Rosalind.Crone@open.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in History at The Open University. She has worked on a number of topics in nineteenth-century criminal justice history, notably in the work about its intersection with popular culture, which led to the book Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London (2012). She has also worked on the histories of literacy and reading. Currently she is leading an AHRC-funded project on “Educating Criminals,” which examines the role of prison education in the evolution of the modern British penal regime (http://educatingcriminals.com/).

Paul Dobraszczyk (dobraszczyk@yahoo.co.uk) is Visiting Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the author of The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay (forthcoming in 2017), Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain: Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment (2014), and Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Victorian Sewers (2009).

Aidan Forth (aforth@luc.edu) is Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago. His book Barbed Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876–1903, forthcoming from University of California Press, explores the military and humanitarian pedigree of concentration camps and refugee camps in India and South Africa. He has published articles in Kritika and the Journal of Modern European History. [End Page 787]

Holly Furneaux (furneauxh@cardiff.ac.uk) is Professor in English at Cardiff University. She is the author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (2009). She is also co-editor, with Sally Ledger, of Charles Dickens in Context (2011) and editor of John Forster’s Life of Dickens: The Illustrated Edition (2011). Her latest book, Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War was published in spring 2016.

Paul Fyfe (paul.fyfe@ncsu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He has authored By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis (2015) and co-authored Victoria’s Lost Pavilion: From Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics to Digital Humanities (forthcoming 2016) in support of a project to virtually model Queen Victoria’s summer house in Buckingham Palace G.ardens (http://go.ncsu.edu/pavilion).

Beth Bevis Gallick (elbevis@indiana.edu) is a Ph.D. candidate and Associate Instructor in the English department at Indiana University, Bloomington. A former managing editor of Victorian Studies (2011–2013), she is currently completing her dissertation on religious conviction and Victorian literary form, tentatively titled “The (Anti)social Life of Conviction: Religion and the Limits of Expression in Victorian Literature.”

Jennifer Green-Lewis (jmgl@gwu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. Her latest book, Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury, 2017...

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