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Contributors
Tanya Agathocleous is a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law (Cornell University Press, 2021), and has produced editions of The Secret Agent, Great Expectations, and Sultana's Dream.
Kaveh Askari is associate professor and director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood (BFI Publishing, 2014) and Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit (University of California Press, 2022).
Sukanya Banerjee is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire and co-editor of New Directions for Diaspora Studies. Her current book project is titled "Loyalty and the Making of the Modern: A Transimperial System," and she is coediting (with Fariha Shaikh) The Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature.
Jennifer DeVere Brody is professor of theater and performance studies at Stanford University. Her research has been supported by the Royal Society for Theatre Research in Great Britain, the Ford and Mellon Foundations, and received the Monette-Horwitz Prize for Independent Research Against Homophobia. Her books, both published by Duke University Press, include Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture (1998) and Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play (2008). She serves as the coeditor of GLQ and is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Susan E. Cook is professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University and president of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. She has published on literature and photography in several venues, and she is the author of Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography (SUNY Press, 2019).
Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and in 2022 was Distinguished Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Recent publications include the guest-edited issues "Scales of Decadence" and "Global Decadence," for Victorian Literature and Culture and Feminist Modernist Studies respectively, and the monograph Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Stefano Evangelista is associate professor of English at Oxford University and fellow of Trinity College and of the Centre for British Studies of the Humboldt University (Berlin). He is the author of British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile (Palgrave, 2009) and Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Regenia Gagnier fba fea frsa mae, professor of English at the University of Exeter, specializes in Victorian and Modern Britain and the geopolitics of language and literature migration. She is on the editorial boards of twenty-two scholarly journals and has supervised to completion eighty-three doctorates at Stanford and Exeter.
Joe Kember is a professor of film and visual culture at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on nineteenth-century media and popular shows, especially the period after 1880, leading up to and including the arrival and consolidation of cinema in the 1920s.
Benjamin Kohlmann teaches English literature at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His most recent monograph, British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He is now working on a global history of the socialist bildungsroman, 1820–2020.
Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is associate professor at Stony Brook University and author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890–1910 (SUNY Press, 2019); co-editor of Políticas del amor: Derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur (Cuarto Propio, 2018) and the 2021 special issue of GLQ, "Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable." Along with S.J. Norman (Koori of Wiradjuri descent) he is cocurator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds.
Jason Rudy is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author most recently of Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). He is currently writing an authorized biography of the Indigenous Australian painter Gordon Syron.
Robert Stilling is associate professor of English at Florida State University and the author of Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (Harvard University Press, 2018). He has published on decadence and colonial and postcolonial literature and art in PMLA, Victorian Literature and Culture, Volupté, and Feminist Modernist Studies.
Alison Syme is associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto and author of A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Finde-Siècle Art (2010). Her work explores art, visual culture, literature, and science at the fin de siècle, and the role of metaphors in artistic practice and poetics.
Marion Thain is professor of literature and culture at King's College London. She began her career as a Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge, moved to New York University as a professor of Arts and Literature, and returned to the UK in 2018. She is currently working on the relationship between culture, technology, and knowledge.
