Biographies
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Erin Garcia-Fernandez earned her PhD in British Literature from Vanderbilt University in 2012. Her research focuses on the influence of periodicals on the development of narrative form in Victorian fiction. She lives in Martin, Tennessee, with her husband, Dr. Anton Garcia-Fernandez, and their three-year-old daughter, Libby.
Suz Garrard holds a PhD in English from the University of St. Andrews. She has taught eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Dundee. Her main areas of interest are working-class newspaper poetry and intersections in the representation of class and gender in nineteenth-century literature. Her doctoral thesis explores transatlantic factory women's poetry in newspapers and periodicals from 1830 to 1885.
Edward Jacobs is Professor of English at Old Dominion University, where he teaches British literature and culture, literary theory, and textual scholarship. He is the author of Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of the Gothic Romance (2000) and various articles on British literature, publishing, and the periodical press during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular emphasis on newspapers, circulating libraries, Ann Radcliffe, and the unstamped publisher John Cleave. He is also the coeditor (with Manuela Mourão) of an edition of W. H. Ainsworth's novel Jack Sheppard (2007). He is currently working on a monograph analyzing changes in the form and content of British newspapers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [End Page 672]
Rebecca Kling is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Davis. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century transatlantic literature and culture, crime and prison literature, and the rise of literacy and the mass media in the nineteenth century.
Kristin E. Kondrlik is Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines intersections between medicine, gender, and rhetorical ethos in print culture during the long nineteenth century. Her work has previously appeared in CEA Forum, Composition Studies, and Poroi: Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry.
Kate Krueger is Associate Professor of English at Arkansas State University. She is the author of British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850–1930: Reclaiming Social Space (2014). Her articles on the short fiction of George Egerton, Charlotte Mew, Evelyn Sharp, and Virginia Woolf have appeared in English Literature in Transition, Women's Writing, and the Journal of the Short Story in English. She also recently contributed to The History of British Women's Writing, 1880–1920, Volume 7 (2016).
Jock Macleod is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Griffith University. He works on the cultural and political institutions and networks within which Victorian literary culture was produced, distributed, and consumed. His most recent book is Literature, Journalism and the Vocabularies of Liberalism: Politics and Letters, 1886–1916 (2013). He also co-edited (with Peter Denney) a forthcoming essay collection entitled Liberalism, Literature, and the Emotions in the Long Nineteenth Century. He is currently completing Some Imagined Good: A History of the English Weekly Review of Politics and Culture, c. 1820–1940.
Simon Rennie is Lecturer in Victorian Poetry at the University of Exeter. He recently published a monograph on Chartist poetry, The Poetry of Ernest Jones: Myth, Song, and the "Mighty Mind" (2016), and he is currently the principal investigator on a project examining newspaper poetry during the Lancashire Cotton Famine, 1861–65.
Solveig C. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Publishing & Printing Arts Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture (2014) and numerous articles on Victorian publishing history. She also edited A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (2003). [End Page 673]
Mercedes Sheldon earned her MA in English from the University of St. Thomas in 2017. Her research investigates how commercially successful fiction in the nineteenth-century periodical press worked to disseminate progressive gender ideals.
Melissa Walker holds a PhD in English and theater studies from the University of Guelph, with a focus on Victorian British women's self-help literature. Her academic and creative work has appeared in various scholarly and literary journals, and her journalism has appeared in Canadian magazines and newspapers...
