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  • Reviewers

Thomas Albrecht (talbrech@tulane.edu) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (2009) and several published essays on George Eliot. His current book, The Ethical Vision of George Eliot, is forthcoming in 2020.

Carolyn Betensky (betensky@uri.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel (2010) and co-translator from the French (with Jonathan Loesberg) of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of Paris (2015).

Karen Bourrier (karen.bourrier@ucalgary.ca) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik (2019) and The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel (2015).

Mary Bowden (makbowde@udel.edu) is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware. Her work has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture. She is currently working on a book project, "Plant Plots: Plant Science and British Narrative, 1800–1910."

Gretchen Braun (gretchen.braun@furman.edu) is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Victorians, and Studies in the Novel. She is completing a book manuscript on nervous disorder and the prehistory of psychic trauma in Victorian fiction.

Daniel Brown (db13g12@soton.ac.uk) is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, U.K. His research is focused on the relations between literature, science, and philosophy. Publications include Hopkins' Idealism: Philosophy, Physics, Poetry (1997) and The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense (2013). He is currently completing a monograph on poetry and the place of women in Victorian science.

Antoinette Burton (aburton@illinois.edu) is Swanlund Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches in the History department and serves as director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. With Renisa Mawani, she is editor of the forthcoming "Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary."

Alison Chapman (alisonc@uvic.ca) is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her most recent monograph is Networking the Nation: British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840–1870 (2015), and she is currently the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC-funded project, Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry. [End Page 543]

Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has recently completed Ruritania: A Cultural History from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries (forthcoming 2020) and an edition of The Prisoner of Zenda for Oxford World's Classics (also forthcoming 2020).

Elizabeth J. Donaldson (edonalds@nyit.edu) is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology, where she directs the Medical Humanities minor program. She coedits the book series Literary Disability Studies for Palgrave Macmillan and recently edited Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (2018). She is currently at work on a monograph that focuses on psychiatry and American literature.

Patrick Fessenbecker (pfessenbecker@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University. His most recent essay is "Sympathy, Vocation, and Moral Deliberation in George Eliot," which appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of ELH. His book, The Ideas in Stories: Intellectual Content as Artistic Experience in Victorian Literature, is forthcoming. His review has benefited from the support of the Danish National Research Foundation, grant number DNRF127.

Hilary Fraser (h.fraser@bbk.ac.uk) holds the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written monographs on the Victorians and Renaissance Italy, aesthetics and religion in Victorian literature, nineteenth-century non-fiction prose, gender and the Victorian periodical, and women writing art history. Current projects include a book on art writing and a scholarly edition of Walter Pater...

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