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gordon alley-young is a professor of speech communication at Kingsborough Community College—City University of New York. He received his PhD in speech communication from Southern Illinois University in 2004. Most recently he has been researching and writing about how Victorian science and health discourses are reflected in televised historical dramas.

gregory brophy is an associate professor and chair of English at Bishop's University, in Sherbrooke, Quebec. His recent work is featured in the Journal of Victorian Culture (Oct. 2019) and Science Fiction Film and Television (Apr. 2020), and forthcoming in the New Review of Film and Television.

anna a. berman is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. Her research focuses on the nineteenth-century Russian and English novel and issues of kinship and family. She is the author of Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: The Path to Universal Brotherhood (2015) and has also published articles on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Russian opera, the relationship of science and literature, and the family novel as a genre.

paul driskill is a PhD candidate at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, beginning his dissertation, which considers fiction's role in the construction of the post-Darwinian human subject and how that role entangled novelistic and scientific literary forms. His recent essay "Troubling Classification: Reading Genealogies and the Composite Human in Daniel Deronda" (Studies in the Novel, 52.1, Spring 2020) considers questions of genealogy, narrative, and animal description in George Eliot's last complete novel. His research interests include nineteenth-century English literature, Gothic science fiction, and eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century history and philosophy of science.

denae dyck recently completed her PhD in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, literature and religion/spirituality, and life writing. She has published in Victorian Poetry, European Romantic Review, Christianity and Literature, and ARIEL.

heather hind recently completed her PhD at the University of Exeter. She is currently working on her first monograph based on her thesis, which was titled "Hairwork in Victorian Literature and Culture: Matter, Form, Craft." She is a post-graduate representative for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) and has worked as a research assistant for the Central Online Victorian Educator (COVE). Her research has been published in the Wilkie Collins Journal and the edited collection Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects.

josephine hoegaerts is an associate professor of European studies at the University of Helsinki, where she leads the research project Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire. Her current work focuses on embodied vocal practices in politics, pedagogy, and science in nineteenth-century Europe. She has previously published on subjects such as political and military masculinities, sensory embodiments of childhood, the cultural meaning of vocal pathology, and histories of sounds and silences.

hosanna krienke is an instructor in the English Department at the University of Wyoming. The article published here stems from research she conducted as a member of the research project "Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives," led by Sally Shuttleworth at the University of Oxford and funded by the European Research Council. She received her PhD in English from Northwestern University. Her book, Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness is forthcoming from Cambridge UP.

nicole lobdell is an assistant professor of English at DePauw University, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature and culture, medical humanities, and science fiction. She has published previously on William Blake, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, and H.G. Wells. She is currently at work on a book about Victorian material culture titled Victorian Stuff: A History of Hoarding.

daniel martin is an associate professor of English at MacEwan University, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has published in the Journal of Victorian Culture, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Review, Blackwell's A Companion to Sensation Fiction, the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, and, most recently, Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century. His forthcoming work on Victorian voices and dysfluency will appear in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies in late 2020.

riley mcguire is an assistant professor of English at Worcester State University...

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