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Contributors
Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her latest books are Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction, and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850 (Edinburgh, 2022) and Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (ed. with Sarah Comyn, Manchester, 2021). She is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project SouthHem and is completing a book entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820–1890.
Andrew Goldstone is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man (Oxford, 2013). His other publications include articles on modernist fiction and poetry, world literature, literary sociology, and computational methods. He is working on a book-length history of the system of genre fiction.
Rachel M. Hendrick is an MA student at the University of Connecticut’s history department. She also holds a MLIS from Long Island University’s Palmer School, where she concentrated her studies in rare books and special collections. Her research interests include the material culture of the book and colonial American bibliography.
Melissa J. Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Cather Project. She has published widely on American women’s authorship from the late 1700s to the early 1900s and is the author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822 to 1869 (Cambridge, 2005) and The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (Oxford, 2021), and co-editor of E. D. E. N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist (Tennessee, 2012) and The Complete Letters of Willa Cather (ongoing).
Marie Léger-St-Jean is a doctoral candidate at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, creator of the online bibliography Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837–1860, literary editor of its electronic edition of The Mysteries of the Inquisition, and a contributing editor to At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. She contributed to Edward Lloyd and his World: Popular Fiction, Journalism and Popular Culture in Victorian Britain (Routledge, 2019); G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830–1870 (Routledge, forthcoming); and Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror (University of Wales Press, forthcoming).
Emily Mokros is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. A specialist in the history of late imperial and modern China, she received a PhD in Chinese History from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority (University of Washington Press, 2021).
Cécile de Morrée is an assistant professor in Middle Dutch Literature at Radboud University. She has published extensively on medieval literature, specializing in song and performance culture in the Low Countries and its neighboring regions. Her research themes include gender, spirituality, orality, book history, and manuscript culture, and her work covers literature in Middle Dutch, Middle French and Middle High German. She is also a trained singer, complementing her research of medieval song with modern performance. In 2020, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel for her transnational study of French and Dutch printed songbooks.
Karen Wade is Assistant Professor in Cultural Analytics at University College Dublin. Her research interests include nineteenth-century fiction, social network analysis, gender, autobiography and life writing, and book history. In her teaching practice, she focuses on communicating digital-humanities concepts and methods. She has previously co-authored publications relating to a number of major cross-disciplinary projects, including the Nation, Genre and Gender Project, Contagion.ie, and SouthHem. Her current research activities include a digital exploration of the catalogues of Mudie’s Circulating Library and an examination of early nineteenth-century Irish literary correspondence networks.
Sarah Schaefer Walton is a PhD candidate in English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research interests include nineteenth-century travel writing, the digital humanities, fandom and adaptation studies, and all things Jane Austen. Her dissertation considers travel guidebooks—with John Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers as the central example—as rich repositories of Victorian perspectives that, when referenced in fiction of the period, signal characters’ engaged presence in a layered network of cultural discourses.
