Biographies
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Eva Chen is a professor of English at National Cheng-Chi University in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on women and urban modernity. Her work has appeared in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Feminist Media Studies.
Jessica P. Clark is an associate professor of history at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She studies the history of beauty, modernity, and gender in the British world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published work in Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600, the Women's History Review, and History Compass. Her monograph, The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
Michael de Nie is a professor of history at the University of West Georgia. His publications include The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798–1882 (Wisconsin, 2004, awarded the ACIS Donnelly Prize); Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion, co-edited with Tim McMahon and Paul Townend (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); Ireland and the New Journalism, co-edited with Karen Steele (Pal-grave Macmillan, 2014); Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr., co-edited with Sean Farrell (Irish Academic Press, 2010); and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is currently writing a study of the late-Victorian press and revolutionary Islam.
Terri Doughty teaches Victorian and children's literature at Vancouver Island University, Canada. She has edited Selections from the Girl's Own Paper, 1880–1907, co-edited Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children's Literature, and published essays on girls' empire adventures and the World War I fiction of Bessie Marchant.
Eloise Forestier is a Franco-Swedish PhD student at Ghent University in the Department of Literary Studies. She completed her master's degree in English literature at la Sorbonne University, Paris, specializing in Victorian literature. She has been part of the WeChangEd project team since October 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Marianne Van Remoortel. Her current project focuses on the transnational political influence of women editors of French, English, and Swedish periodicals inspired by French ideas and history during the nineteenth century. Her work on transnational (Belgo-British) networks at the turn of the twentieth century led to the publication of an edition in May 2016 on Scholarlyediting.org. Other publications include an article on Germaine de Staël and periodical editing for the Cahiers Staëliens 68 (November 2018).
Sean Grass is a professor of English at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he specializes in the Victorian novel and the Victorian literary market. He is the author of The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (2003), Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History (2014), and several essays on Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Christina Rossetti, and other Victorian writers. His next book, The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, will appear from Cambridge University Press in late 2019.
Kellie Holzer is an associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan University. She has published articles on Victorian matrimonial advertising, the colonial Indian novel, and the relationship of the New Woman to imperialism. She is currently working on a book-length study of a weekly humor magazine published in Norfolk, Virginia, in the 1890s.
Natalie M. Houston is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she teaches digital humanities and literary theory. Her research uses computational methods to explore the cultural function of poetry within Victorian print culture. Her current book project, Distant Reading Victorian Poetry, examines the language and stylistic features of nineteenth-century poetry in a large-scale corpus. She is also codirector and technical director for the Periodical Poetry Index, a research database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals. Her research on Victorian poetry and print culture has appeared in journals such as Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, and the Yale Journal of Criticism.
Lindsy Lawrence is a professor of English at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. Her recent...
