Contributors
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simon avery is a reader in nineteenth-century literature and culture at the University of Westminster. His publications include Elizabeth Barrett Browning (with Rebecca Stott, 2003), Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: The Brownings (2004), Thomas Hardy: A Reader's Guide (2009), Selected Poems of Mary Coleridge (2010), and Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London (with Kate M. Graham, 2016). He is currently writing a book on the Brontës and political thought.
keridiana chez is an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. Her research generally focuses on nineteenth-century animal studies, and includes publications such as Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Ohio State UP, 2017), "Wanted Dead or Alive: Rabbits in Victorian Children's Literature," in Brenda Ayres's Beasts on a Leash (Routledge, 2020), and "Man's Best and Worst Friends: The Politics of Pet Preference at the Turn of the Century" in Dominik Ohrem's American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality, and U.S. Culture, 1776–1920 (Neofelis, 2017).
fiona coll is an assistant professor of literature and technology at SUNY Oswego. Her research explores the entanglement of machines and human subjectivity in Victorian-era discourse, including how automata gave material form to fantasies about human exceptionalism in nineteenth-century fictional and non-fictional writing.
paul courtright is a professor emeritus in the Department of Religion at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His research areas focus on the religions of India, their mythic narratives, and practices in the Shaivite traditions. He is the author of Ganesha: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings (Oxford UP, 1985) and contributor and co-editor, with Lindsey Harlan, of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage (Oxford UP, 1994). His current research projects include a study of the discourses, practices, and controversies around the traditions of sati, the immolations of Hindu wives with their deceased husbands.
joanna cruickshank is a senior lecturer in history at Deakin University, Australia. She has published widely on the history of evangelicalism and missions in the British Empire. Her most recent book, co-authored with Patricia Grimshaw, is White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments: Maternal Contradictions (Brill, 2019).
nella darbouze-bonyeme is a PhD student in transcultural studies at the University of Calgary. She specializes in nineteenth-century French and English literatures. Her current project examines the representation of systemic racism in modern tales of black and mixed-race avengers. For the last two years, she has also been working on an adventure novel.
s.e. duff teaches African and world history at Colby College in Maine. She is a historian of modern South Africa, with particular interests in histories of age, gender, and Christianity. Her first book is Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860–1895 (Palgrave, 2015), and she is currently at work on a history of sex education in twentieth-century South Africa. Before moving to the United States, she held positions at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at Stellenbosch University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
jennifer esmail is the director of the Centre for Community Partnerships at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture (2013), and her research on representations of deafness and disability in Victorian literature and culture has also appeared in ELH: English Literary History, Sign Language Studies, and Victorian Poetry. Her current research focuses on the pedagogy of community-engaged learning.
susan h. farnsworth is a professor of history at Trinity Washington University. Her areas of special interest include liberal politics, Darwinian science, and the expansion of empire in the Victorian era. She is the author of The Evolution of British Imperial Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Peelite Contribution, 1846–1874 (Taylor and Francis, 1992).
mary ellis gibson is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature at Colby College and author of Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905: Five Stories of Speculation, Resistance and Rebellion (Anthem, 2019). Her monograph Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore and her critical...
