Reviewers
- Reviewers
Ruth Almy (ruthalmy@gmail.com) received her Ph.D. in British History at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2018. Her work focuses on the intersection of Canadian law with imperial policy and issues of intra-imperial immigration between India and Canada. She has been published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Ruth previously served as the Book Review Editor of Victorian Studies.
Carolyn Vellenga Berman (BermanC@newschool.edu) is Associate Professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is the author of Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery (2006), and is currently completing a study of Dickens and democracy in the age of print.
Mary Wilson Carpenter (carpentm@queensu.ca) is Professor Emerita of English at Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England (2010), Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market (2003), and George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History (1986). She is currently working on a project about Margaret Mathewson (1848–80) and the history of surgical tuberculosis.
William M. Cavert (william.cavert@stthomas.edu) is Historian of early modern Britain, with interests in environmental and social history, at the University of St. Thomas. His works, including The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (2016) as well as shorter publications, examine the use of coal and perceptions of environmental change before industrialization. His current work considers the Little Ice Age as well as attempts to eradicate vermin in rural Britain.
Micael M. Clarke (mclarke@luc.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. Her most recent article, “‘Invaded by a Devilish Indian Diamond’: Wilkie Collins’s ‘Sermon for Sepoys,’ The Moonstone, and the Emergence of a Secular Modernity,” is forthcoming in Religion and Literature. Her current project is a study of Emily Brontë and Mysticism.
Eleanor Courtemanche (ecourtem@illinois.edu) is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her book, The ‘Invisible Hand’ and British Fiction, 1818–1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism, was published in 2011. She has recently written articles about Charles Dickens and Friedrich Hayek, Karl Marx and Heinrich Heine in Paris, and Victorian utopias and the television show Portlandia.
Paul R. Deslandes (paul.deslandes@uvm.edu) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Vermont. He is the author of multiple essays and articles as well as the book Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850–1920 (2005). He is currently completing a new book titled, “The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham.”
Philipp Erchinger (Philipp.Erchinger@hhu.de) is Senior Lecturer at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He is the author of Artful Experiments: Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science (2018), a monograph on contingency and narrative form (2009), and several articles on nineteenth-century writing and literary theory.
Kate Flint (kflint@usc.edu) is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book is Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination (2017). Her current work explores attentive looking, Victorian environmental awareness, and its afterlife in today’s artistic practices, and her longer-term project is focused on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cultural history.
Nicholas Frankel (nrfranke@vcu.edu) teaches English at Virginia Commonwealth University. His publications include Oscar Wilde’s Decorated Books (2000), Masking The Text: Essays on Literature and Mediation in the 1890s (2009), The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde, with Decorations by Charles Ricketts: A Facsimile (2010), The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition (2011), Charles Ricketts, Everything for Art: Selected Writings (2014), Oscar Wilde, The Unrepentant Years (2017), and The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde (2018).
Kathleen Frederickson (kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her first book, The...
