Contributors
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Veronica Alfano is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology and a research fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published numerous articles and chapters on gender, genre, and memory in Victorian poetry. With Andrew Stauffer, she is coeditor of the essay collection Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies (Palgrave, 2015). She is author of The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman (Palgrave, 2017). Her current projects focus on gender in elegiac verse and on neologisms in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Isobel Armstrong FBA is emeritus professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair) at Birkbeck, University of London, senior research fellow of the Institute of English Studies, and international scholar of the American Academy. Over the last few years she has taught at Harvard, the Bread Loaf School of English, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton. Her book Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize. Her interests encompass critical and aesthetic theory and feminist writing (see The Radical Aesthetic [Wiley, 2000] and the Oxford Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry [Oxford Univ. Press, 1993]) and nineteenth-century literature. Recent work includes Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016) and Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (rev. 2019). Poems appeared in Shearsman's anthology of poetry by women, edited by Carrie Etter, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by U.K. Women Poets (2010).
Joseph Bristow is distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent books include (with Rebecca N. Mitchell) Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery (Yale Univ. Press, 2015) and an edited collection, Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood (Palgrave, 2017). He is completing a study of the Crown prosecution of Oscar Wilde.
Julie Casanova has recently completed her thesis "Forms of the Chronotope in Fin-de-Siècle British Women's Poetry" at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the interactions of time-space, gender, and genre in 1880–90s poems by women, and uses Bakhtin's theory to map their contributions to the canon. Casanova's other interests include ancient mythology, popular folklore, and the ways in which women appropriated old traditions to characterise the New Woman in their own terms.
Helen Luu is associate professor in the Department of English at the Royal Military College of Canada, where she teaches courses in literary theory. She has published articles on Felicia Hemans, Augusta Webster, and the genre of the dramatic monologue.
Lee O'Brien is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published journal articles on Victorian women's poetry, on George Eliot, and on crime and detective fiction of the early twentieth century. Her monograph The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry: Experiments in Form was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2013.
Eleanor Reeds is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Hastings College. She recently completed her doctoral studies at the University of Connecticut, and her current research focuses on voice in generically innovative works from the nineteenth century. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a range of journals including Victorian Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, American Literary Realism, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
Patricia Rigg is professor of Victorian Literature at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. She has published books on Robert Browning and Augusta Webster and has recently completed a book manuscript on A. Mary F. Robinson. She has recently received a four-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support a book project on the influence of Charles Baudelaire and other French poets on Victorian autobiographical sonnet sequences.
