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  • Contributors

Florence Boos is the general editor of the William Morris Archive and author/editor of several books on Morris, most recently History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris (Ohio State Univ. Press, 2015). Her Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology appeared in 2008 (Broadview) and The Hard Way Up: Autobiographies of Victorian Working-Class Women is forthcoming from Palgrave.

Michael Hansen coedited the MLQ special issue on “Historical Poetics” (2016). His scholarly work has also appeared in Literary Imagination and Modern Philology.

Elizabeth Helsinger is the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Departments of English, Art History, and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Her books include Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder, Rural Scenes and National Representation, Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts, and most recently, Poetry and the Thought of Song (2015).

Letitia Henville finished her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2015. Her dissertation focused on late Victorian literary ballads that people the traditionally British form with foreign characters, foreign concepts, and, in transliteration, foreign languages. She teaches as an adjunct instructor in the Department of English at Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada.

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 (4 vol., 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). The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry, which she is editing, is under contract and due to be published in 2018.

Thomas J. Joudrey is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Penn State University. His other articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The New England [End Page 539] Quarterly, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Philological Quarterly. He is now at work on a book manuscript that examines the responsiveness of Victorian ethics to human vulnerability.

Naomi Levine received her PhD from Rutgers University and is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century theories of literary history and their impact on Victorian poetic forms. She has previously published in Victorian Studies, Victoriographies, and MLQ.

Justin Sider is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, Studies in English Literature, Victorian Poetry, and Victorian Studies. He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled “Parting Words: Victorian Poetry and Public Address,” and his current research concerns the aesthetics of anachronism in nineteenth-century romance genres. [End Page 540]

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