Reviewers
- Reviewers
Elizabeth Chang (change@missouri.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Missouri and author of two monographs, Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010) and Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century (2019). She is currently at work on a study of mobility and environmental description in nineteenth-century British travel writing from China.
Susan E. Cook (susan.elizabeth.cook@gmail.com) is Associate Professor of English and Director of General Education at Southern New Hampshire University. She is the author of Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century (2019) and has published in Dickens Studies Annual, Nineteenth Century Studies, Discourse, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book project on hidden mothers.
Lauren Eriks Cline (lauren.erikscline@snc.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at St. Norbert College. Her work on performance, spectatorship, and narrative has appeared in a number of journals and edited collections, including Victorian Literature and Culture, Theatre Survey, and Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film.
Christine Ferguson (christine.ferguson@stir.ac.uk) is Professor and Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her publications include the monograph Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930 (2012) and the essay collection Popular Occulture in Britain, 1875–1947 (2018; coedited with Andrew Radford). She currently leads The Media of Mediumship, an AHRC-funded project held in collaboration with the Science Museum Group and London's Senate House Library.
Monica Flegel (mflegel@lakeheadu.ca) is Professor of English at Lakehead University in Canada. Her current work in children's literature focuses on child culture and on overlapping representations of childhood and pethood. She is the author of Constructing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England: Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC (2009), Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture: Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family (2015), and the coeditor, with Dr. Christopher Parkes, of Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures (2018).
Maria Frawley (mfrawley@gwu.edu) is Professor of English at the George Washington University, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in the Victorian Period (1994), Anne Brontë (1996), Invalidism and Identity in Victorian Britain (2004), and an edition of Harriet Martineau's Life in the Sick-Room (1844). She is currently coediting The Companion to Jane Austen, just out from Routledge.
William Hughes (williamhughes@um.edu.mo) is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau. His recent publications include Key Concepts in the Gothic (2018) and That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination (2015). His next monograph, The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Victorian Popular Imagination, will be published by Manchester University Press in 2022.
John Kucich (jkucich@english.rutgers.edu) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Rutgers University. He has published numerous books, edited collections, and essays on Victorian literature and culture. He is currently working on two book projects: one on the politics of genre, and the other on the ramifications of organicism in Victorian fiction.
Paul Lucier (paullucier2@gmail.com) studies science and capitalism. He specializes in the history of the earth sciences and their ethical entanglements with the business of mining. His first book, Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890 (2008), explored the fraught relations of geology and the first energy industries. His current research focuses on scientific explorations for gold and silver in the American West. He is also an expert on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century trade tokens.
Stefanie Markovits (stefanie.markovits@yale.edu) is Professor of English at Yale and author of The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (2006), The Crimean War in the British Imagination (2009), and The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life (2017). Her current project, "The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature," will consider the presence and effect of numbers in...
