Biographies
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Amanda Adams is Associate Professor of English at Muskingum University. She writes on nineteenth-century transatlantic literature and culture. Her publications include Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour (2014) and "'No Region for Tourists and Women': Isabella Bird, Local Ecology, and the Transatlantic Sphere," published in Transatlantic Literary Ecologies (2016).
Martha Baldwin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Kansas. She recently co-edited, with Laura L. Mielke, a digital edition of a previously unpublished nineteenth-century dramatic manuscript. The project, entitled "A black diamond among thim American wifes": Kate Edwards Swayze's Antislavery Adaptation of George Colman's Inkle and Yarico," was published in the 2015 issue of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. Baldwin's essay, "'The Ghosts of Departed Cook-maids Looked Wonderingly On': Specters of Servitude in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables," was published in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (Spring 2015) and received the Kenneth Rockwell Award for Excellence in the Study of English Literature from the University of Kansas.
Julie Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and affiliate faculty in English, Gender Studies, Film and Media Studies and Asian Studies. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003, 2012 rev. ed.) and edited Transculturation in British Art (2012, 2017), Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars (2012), The Political Economy of Art (2008), and Imperial Co-Histories (2003). She also co-edited Replication in the Long 19th Century: Re-makings and Reproductions, with L. Hughes (2018); Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures, [End Page 365] with J. DelPlato (2016); Encounters in the Victorian Press, with L. Brake (2004); and Orientalism Transposed, with D. Macleod (1998). She has published widely on the Victorian art press (special issue of VPR, 1991) and the press in nineteenth-century India (special issue of VPR, 2004). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Getty Foundation, Kress Foundation, Huntington Library, Harry Ransom Center, and the Yale Center for British Art.
Miranda Garrett is an AHRC-funded doctoral candidate at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London. Her thesis concerns professional women interior decorators, 1872 to 1900. She is currently co-editing a collection entitled Suffrage and Visual Art: Culture, Enterprise and Power for Bloomsbury (2018), which is scheduled to coincide with the centenary of the Representation of the People Act. In addition, she is a freelance museum professional and has most recently been employed by the Society of Antiquaries of London, Historic Royal Palaces, and Leighton House Museum. Her general research interests include interior design, decorative and applied art, gender history, and domestic history during the nineteenth century.
Kathryn Ledbetter is Professor of English at Texas State University. She is the author of Victorian Needlework (2012); British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Civilization, Beauty, and Poetry (2009); Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (2007); "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (with Terence Hoagwood, 2005); and The Keepsake (1829), a facsimile edition, with introduction and notes (with Terence Hoagwood, 1999). She has published articles in various newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, including Studies in the Literary Imagination, VPR, Victorian Poetry, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Journal of Modern Literature.
Thad Logan teaches in the English Department at Rice University. She is the author of The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study (2001), numerous publications and talks on the subject of Victorian domestic interiors, and the "Material Culture" entry for Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015). Her research interests include the discourse and practice of Victorian decoration and design, as well as materiality in the life and work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Brian Maidment is Professor of the History of Print at Liverpool John Moores University and the current President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. His most recent books are Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order 1820–1850 (2013) and Persistent Ruskin (2013), co-edited with Keith Hanley. He is currently completing a book called Illustration and the Periodical Press, 1821–1841 for Palgrave Macmillan. [End Page 366]
Miranda Marraccini is a PhD candidate in...
