Contributors to this Issue
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Joel J. Brattin, Professor of English Literature at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, continues his long-standing interest in the evolution of Dickens’s texts, especially Dickens’s manuscript revisions. He is editing A Tale of Two Cities for Oxford University Press, and editing Nicholas Nickleby with Elizabeth James, also for OUP.
Joshua Brorby is a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation, Faith in Translation: Rewriting Secularity in the British Empire, examines writers who transported unfamiliar religious ideas and texts to English readers, with emphasis on George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, F. Max Müller, and the Taiping Rebellion in Southern China.
Sean Grass is Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has published The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace (Cambridge UP, 2019), Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History (Ashgate, 2014), The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (Routledge, 2003) and numerous articles on Dickens and his contemporaries. He is the Vice President of the Dickens Society and will assume the Presidency later this year.
Leon Litvack is Reader in Victorian Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, and is editing Our Mutual Friend for the Oxford Dickens series. His co-edited collection Reading Dickens Differently has just been published by Wiley-Blackwell.
William F. Long is Emeritus Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen. He has published numerous articles for The Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly and contributed to the Oxford Readers’ Companion to Dickens.
Chris Louttit is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is Editor-in-Chief of English Studies, and his most recent work on Dickens includes a co-edited special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose and a chapter discussing Fred Barnard’s Bleak House illustrations in Reading Dickens Differently (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).
Dominic Rainsford is Professor of Literature in English and Head of the Department of English at Aarhus University, Denmark, as well as general editor of this journal. The expanded 2nd edition of his Studying Literature in English, rebranded as Literature in English: How and Why, will appear from Routledge in June 2020.
Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens came out in paperback in 2015. Among his recent books are: Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (2012); (with Linda Weinhouse) Under Postcolonial Eyes: The “jew” in Contemporary British Writing (2012); (as editor), Race Color Identity: Discourses about the Jews in the Early Twenty-First Century (2013); and The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017).
Benjamin Westwood is Research Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Oxford. Recent or forthcoming publications include “Edward Lear’s Dancing Lines” (Essays in Criticism), “Humans, and Other Nonsense Animals” (The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense), and “The Queer Art of Ardent Reading” (Raritan). He is currently finishing a book on form and animals in Victorian literature.
