Biographies
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Rob Breton is a professor of English literature at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He specializes in nineteenth-century studies, especially Chartist and working-class fiction, popular fiction, and political writing. His latest book is with Routledge and is titled The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction: Reading against the Middle-Class Novel (2017).
Lois Burke is an associate lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. Her PhD research looks at girls’ manuscript writings of the late-nineteenth century. She works closely with Victorian archives and collections and in 2019 was a Residential Research Library Fellow at the University of Durham. She has co-curated several exhibitions with the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh and is a UK Representative of the Juvenilia Press.
Petra Clark earned her PhD from the University of Delaware in 2019, with a focus on Aestheticism and late nineteenth-century British and American magazines. Her dissertation examined the role of illustrated periodicals as purveyors of artistic cultural currency and recovered the work of several once-popular but now-forgotten women writers, artists, and editors. Her current project centers on the uses and portrayals of bird bodies in nineteenth-century print, visual, and material culture.
Margaret J. Godbey is an associate professor of English at Coker University in Hartsville, South Carolina. As coordinator of the English Education major, she teaches classes in children’s and young adult literature as well as literary theory and first-year writing. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the ALAN Review (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents), English Literature in Transition 1880–1920, and VPR. Her scholarly interests include the history of children’s literature, illustration, and LGBT+ young adult literature and the supernatural.
Natalie M. Houston is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is a co-director 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.
Scott Larkin will complete his MA in English from the University of St. Thomas in December 2019. His research uses digital humanities to examine how issues of race, gender, and colonialism manifest in nineteenth-century British and Irish literature, with particular emphasis on the Gothic and other genres of popular fiction.
Katherine Malone is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University, where her research focuses on Victorian literary criticism, women writers, and the dynamics of genre-spaces in Victorian periodicals. Her most recent essay, on the development of a women’s column in the Leisure Hour, appeared in Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s: The Victorian Period (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
Miranda Marraccini is the digital pedagogy librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches students and faculty how to employ digital tools and research methods. She has previously published on the Victoria Press, the subject of her dissertation, in VPR. She also created a companion website, victoriapresscircle.org.
Julia McCord Chavez is an associate professor of English at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on the pedagogical value of Victorian periodical reading, teaching the Victorian serial with The Mystery of Edwin Drood as case study, gothic influences in serial fiction by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, and the transatlantic publication of Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native.
Kristine Moruzi is a senior lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University, Australia.
Leonee Ormond is a professor emerita of Victorian studies at King’s College, London. Her particular area of interest is the relation between literature and the visual arts. She has published volumes on George du Maurier, Frederic Leighton (with Richard Ormond), J. M. Barrie, Alfred Tennyson, and Linley Sambourne.
Gemma Outen is an early career researcher who focuses on gender construction in the late-Victorian periodical press. She completed her PhD in 2018 on the Women’s Total Abstinence Union and its periodical, Wings. Her thesis examined the journal as a complex site of gender construction for the middle...
