Biographies
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Grace Beekman is an independent scholar whose research investigates affect and femininity in the Victorian sensation novel and the periodical press using quantitative methods of analysis. She graduated from the University of St. Thomas with an MA in English in 2016.
Margaret Beetham is the author of Women’s Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and Women’s Magazines (1991), with Ros Ballaster, Liz Frazer, and Sandra Hebron; A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800–1914 (1996); The Victorian Woman’s Magazine: An Anthology (2001), with Kay Boardman; and numerous journal articles, chapters in books, and edited or co-edited volumes. She was an associate editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009) and is senior advisor to the boards of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the European Society for Periodical Research. She is an honorary research fellow in the School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, Manchester, having retired from the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Katherine Bode is Associate Professor of Literary and Textual Studies at the Australian National University. Her recent publications include Reading by Numbers (2012) and the co-edited collection Advancing Digital Humanities (2014). Her essay in this issue of VPR canvasses ideas developed and applied in her forthcoming book A World of Fiction.
Marysa Demoor is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2011, she was also the holder of the Van Dyck Chair at UCLA. She is the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent [End Page 265] Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920 (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880–1930 (Palgrave, 2004). With Laurel Brake, she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press (Palgrave, 2009) and The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (British Library and Academia Press, 2009). Her current research focuses on the cross-fertilisation between Northern Belgium and Britain during the long nineteenth century.
Abigail Droge is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Stanford University. Her dissertation investigates the relationship between literature, science, and working-class literacy movements in nineteenth-century Britain, with the goal of placing Victorian debates in conversation with the current challenges facing science and humanities pedagogy. She is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and has worked collaboratively within the Stanford English Department to establish a suite of courses designed and taught by graduate students.
Laura Kasson Fiss teaches literature and researches interdisciplinarity and liberal education through the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Technological University. Her essays on Victorian humor have appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, The Lion and the Unicorn, and The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. She is working on a monograph on funny clubs and literary sociability from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wode-house.
Constance M. Fulmer is Professor of Victorian Literature at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, in Malibu, California. She holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English Literature. She is working on a biography of Edith J. Simcox and a study of George Eliot’s morality. She has published several articles on Simcox and her work, including an edition of Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, co-edited with Margaret E. Barfield (Garland, 1998).
Helena Goodwyn is a lecturer and teaching associate in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London and the Department of English and Comparative Literature Studies at the University of Warwick. She is editor of the 2015 collection of essays English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future and author of “Room for Confidence: Early Career Feminists in the English Department,” published in Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). [End Page 266]
Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests are Victorian literature and culture, Charles Dickens, spatiality, and literary globalism, as well as adaptation, appropriation, and translation. Her articles have appeared in international journals such as the Journal of Victorian Culture, English, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and...
