Contributors
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Katherine Bode is a senior lecturer in literary and textual studies in the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University. Her PhD, from the University of Queensland, focused on “Women Looking at Men’s Bodies In and Through Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction.” She has written two books, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012) and Damaged Men/Desiring Women: Male Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing (2008), and co-edited two others. Her publications also include studies of Australian literature, book history, gender studies, directions in higher education, and digital archives.
Matthew Daniel Eddy is Senior Lecturer in Durham University’s Department of Philosophy, where he teaches the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe and America. He has published widely on seventeenth- to twentieth-century science, medicine, philosophy, and religion. He is currently pursuing projects on the history of cognition, childhood, and graphic culture.
R. E. Fulton is an independent historian of gender, print culture, science, and medicine in the United States, holding a master’s degree in American history from the University of Rochester, whose recent work explores abortion in the nineteenth century. Research for this article was completed while the author was a student at Clarkson University, working under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Casper.
Kristen Doyle Highland received her PhD in English and American Literature from New York University in 2015 and specializes in early American literature and print culture studies, with additional interests in spatial and digital humanities. She is currently completing a book project that examines the history and social life of the bookstore in antebellum America.
Jessica Isaac is the Program and Curriculum Director at Books@Work, a Cleveland-based nonprofit that brings professor-led literature seminars to workplace and community settings. She received her PhD in literature, [End Page 432] literacy, and composition from the University of Pittsburgh and serves as Books@Work’s liaison to the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.
Graziano Krätli is a Digital Projects and Technology Librarian at Yale University Library. A native of Italy, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Stage Design from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Dominican University, Illinois. With Ghislaine Lydon, he edited The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Arabic Literacy, Manuscript Culture, and Intellectual History in Islamic Africa (Brill, 2011). His research interests focus on the material, technological, economic, and cultural aspects of book production and preservation in non-Western societies. He also works as a literary translator and editor.
Dallas Liddle is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and author of The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain (University of Virginia Press, 2009). He has published on George Eliot’s journalism, the convention of anonymity in Victorian periodicals, the origins of the newspaper leading article, and the influence of journalistic practices on literary forms. His current book project studies nineteenth-century journalism and fiction using tools developed for technology history, information theory, and quantitative linguistics.
K. A. Manley is Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, where he was Assistant Librarian for 29 years. He is joint convenor (with Giles Mandelbrote and Prof. Isabel Rivers) of the Seminar in the History of Libraries held jointly at the Institute of English Studies and Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and he edited the journal Library History for 17 years. He coedited The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol. 2: 1640–1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2006; with Giles Mandelbrote) and is the author of Books, Borrowers, and Shareholders: Scottish Circulating and Subscription Libraries before 1825 (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 2012). He contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and was Compiler (1992–99) of the annual History Books Catalogue, known from 1996 as British Books on History. He works as a National Trust Libraries Contractor and has recently catalogued the library of Agatha Christie. [End Page 433]
Peter McDonald is a Fellow of St. Hugh’s College and a Lecturer at the University...
