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  • Contributors

Suzanne Bailey is a professor of English literature at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. She is the author of Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry (2010) and the senior editor of P. K. Page’s Brazilian Journal (2011). She has published on nineteenth-century intellectual history in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Photography and Culture, Women’s Writing, and other journals. Her work on Canadian travel writing and poetry appears in Mosaic, University of Toronto Quarterly, Canadian Literature, and Canadian Poetry.

Florence Boos is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. Her recent publications include History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris (Ohio State Univ. Press, 2015) and Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women: The Hard Way Up (Palgrave, 2017), as well as a new edition of Morris’s Socialist Diary (Five Leaves, 2018).

Indy Clark teaches at the University of Queensland, Australia. His doctoral thesis on Hardy’s poetry received the University of Queensland Dean’s Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence. His publications include Thomas Hardy’s Pastoral: An Unkindly May (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), “Imagined Villages and Knowable Communities: Work and the Pastoral in Thomas Hardy’s Poetry” in Pockets of Change (2011), and articles for the Hardy Society Journal and Colloquy.

Hannah Comer is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis looks at the Pre-Raphaelite legacy in modernism. For the past two years, Hannah has worked as a research assistant for COVE.

Dominique Gracia is an administrative director of NAVSA’s Central Online Victorian Educator (COVE) project. Her research focuses on Victorian poetry and short fiction, media history, and the reuse, repetition, and recurrence of the Victorian in twenty-first-century television. Recent publications consider the utility of Friedrich Kittler’s media history for understanding ekphrastic poetry and the relationships between aesthetics, ethics, and friendship in the NBC series Hannibal. Her current projects focus on the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories for twenty-first-century fictional sidekicks and on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s adaptations of poetry for painting and vice versa.

Adrian Grafe is an Oxford graduate, a Fellow (Corresp.) of the English Association, and currently an English professor at Université d’Artois in France, specializing in poetry. He has published monographs on Hopkins and Emily Dickinson and articles on poets including Hopkins, Hardy, Patmore, and Dowson. He coedits the book review section of Hopkins Quarterly and is a member of that journal’s Board of Scholars.

Jason David Hall is an associate professor of English at the University of Exeter (UK). He has written two books: Seamus Heaney’s Rhythmic Contract (2009) and Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter (2017). He is contributing author and editor of Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator (2007, with coeditor Ashby Bland Crowder), Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (2011), and Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle (2013, with coeditor Alex Murray). His edition of Wilkie Collins’s novel Jezebel’s Daughter was published in 2016 for the Oxford World’s Classics series.

Emily Harrington is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to articles on Victorian poetry and poetics and on women’s poetry in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Literature Compass, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and The Oxford Handbook on Victorian Poetry, she is the author of Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Woman Poets and the Bonds of Verse (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2014).

Owen Holland teaches literature in the English Department at University College London, and he was Career Development Fellow in Victorian and Modern Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, between 2016 and 2018. His first book, William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration, was published with Palgrave in 2017. He is currently working on a study of British responses to the Paris Commune between 1871 and 1914.

Linda K. Hughes, the Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, specializes in historical media studies (poetry, periodicals, serial fiction), gender and...

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