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  • Contributors

Jasmine Jagger lectures on Victorian, modern, and contemporary English language and literature at the University of Oxford. Her research interests primarily concern poetry and affect, literature and visual culture, and the medical humanities. She is currently preparing her first monograph, "Affective Rhythms," for publication, while working on a scholarly edition of Victorian letters, contracted by Oxford University Press.

Christopher M. Keirstead is a professor of English at Auburn University. His research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, poetry, and travel studies. His book Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism was published by Ohio State University Press in 2011. Recent work includes contributions to the journals Studies in Travel Writing, Genre, and Victorian Periodicals Review as well as a chapter on travel and poetry in the Cambridge History of Travel Writing (2019). His current book project, "Repeat Engagements," examines the enduring influence of nineteenth-century discourses of travel in contemporary travel writing.

Thomas Owens is currently a teaching fellow in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature at University College London. Previously, he held a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellowship from the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study and a Junior Research Fellowship from Churchill College, Cambridge. His book Wordsworth, Coleridge, and "the language of the heavens" has just been published by Oxford University Press. In September, he will take up an assistant professorship in British literature at Stanford University.

Dinah Roe is a senior lecturer in English literature at Oxford Brookes University, specializing in nineteenth-century poetry and Pre-Raphaelite studies. Her publications include Christina Rossetti's Faithful Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan), Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), and an anthology of Pre-Raphaelite poems, The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin (Penguin Classics). She is currently editor of The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti for the Longman Annotated English Poets series and is working on a monograph about Pre-Raphaelite poetry.

Marjorie Stone, McCulloch Professor of English, Dalhousie University, is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1995), coeditor of Elizabeth Barrett [End Page 155] Browning: Selected Poems (Broadview, 2009), and coeditor of three of five volumes in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Pickering and Chatto, 2010). Recent publications include two BRANCH articles (on Victorian periodical debates over Aurora Leigh and the "Sensation" of poems before Congress); "Lyric Tipplers," on EBB and Emily Dickinson (in VP); "Emily Dickinson's 'Queens'" (in Women's Writing); and "Politics, Protest, Interventions: Beyond a Poetess Tradition," in The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry, edited by Linda K. Hughes.

Beverly Taylor, professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has coedited three volumes of the Pickering & Chatto scholarly edition of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With Marjorie Stone, she also coedited a Broadview edition of EBB's selected poetry and a VP issue commemorating EBB's centenary. [End Page 156]

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