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  • Contributors

Dan Abitz is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His dissertation examines the interconnections between utopian literature and theory, feminist theory, queer theory, and vegetarianism. He serves as Conference Manager for the South Atlantic MLA, and he teaches first-year composition at the University. His scholarly work can be found in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Rocky Mountain Review, and The Henry James Review.

Katherine Anne Gilbert is Associate Professor of English at Drury University, where she also serves as Director of the Humanities and Ethics Center. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of law and literature, and her current book manuscript, “Legal Characters,” examines lawyers in Victorian novels, gender, and theories of character. She served as co-editor of a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, “Law and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England,” and she has also written about Robert Browning and Dickens.

William Lee Hughes is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at University of California / Davis, where he is completing his dissertation on Victorian serial fiction. His work explores the intersection of affect theory and print media studies using a new-formalist method. Previous publications have appeared in Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. He is currently writing about grief in the serial publication of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop.

Miciah Hussey received his PhD in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY in 2016. He is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, and Director of Artist Relations at Gladstone Gallery in New York. His most recent publication was in The Henry James Review (April 2016). Current work includes a catalogue entry focusing on Oscar Wilde’s influence on artists McDermott and McGough. [End Page 99]

Deirdre Mikolajcik is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Kentucky. Her work focuses on literary representations of the intersection of gender and economics, particularly links between crises in masculinity and abstract economy, and the ways authors sought to stabilize both. New work includes a collection of essays about gender and literary inheritance.

Richard Storer is Senior Lecturer in English at Leeds Trinity University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is the author of the volume F. R. Leavis (2009) in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series, and of recent essays on Bram Stoker, Hall Caine, and T. E. Brown.

Lauren Wilwerding is a PhD candidate at Boston College. She has published in Persuasions and has an essay forthcoming in Dickens Studies Annual. Lauren is working on a study of the single woman in the nineteenth-century novel. [End Page 100]

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