- Reviewers
Allison Scardino Belzer (abelzer@georgiasouthern.edu) is Professor of History on the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University. She is the author of Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy (2010) and is working on a biography of three generations of the Ashursts, a British family of nineteenth-century radical activists who campaigned for change at home and abroad.
Karen Bourrier (karen.bourrier@ucalgary.ca) is Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. She is the author of The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel (2015) and Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik (2019). With Susan Brown and Anthony Mandal, she is writing a history of nineteenth-century women’s writing based on data from the Orlando Project, to be published as part of a four-volume series with Cambridge University Press.
Mary Bowden (she/her) (makbowde@udel.edu) is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the University of Delaware’s English Department. Her current book project, “Radical Science: Plants, Agency, and British Narrative, 1800–1910,” explores the influence of nineteenth-century plant science on literary narratives. Her work has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Review, ISLE, and Dibur.
Rob Breton (robbr@nipissingu.ca) is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. A Victorianist, he focuses on working-class and Chartist fiction, as well as other political literatures from the nineteenth century. His latest book, The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction (2021), is with Manchester University Press.
Aviva Briefel (abriefel@bowdoin.edu) is Edward Little Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2006) and The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (2015), and coeditor of the anthologies Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011) and Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work (2023).
Sally Bushell (s.bushell@lancaster.ac.uk) is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature at Lancaster University. Her research is concerned with literary spatiality and the mapping of texts in a range of ways (across process; empirically; digitally). She is also interested in digital and spatial projects for the mapping of literature. Her most recent book is Reading and Mapping: Spatialising the Text (2020).
Ulrich Charpa (charpa@mail.com) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ruhr University, Bochum, and former Research Professor at the Leo Baeck Institute, Queen Mary, University of London. Among his books are Philosophische Wisssenschaftshistorie (1995), Wissen und Handeln (2001), and Jews and Sciences in German Contexts (2007).
Christine Colón (christine.colon@wheaton.edu) is Professor of English at Wheaton College, Illinois. Her publications include Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence (2009); Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition (2018); and Choosing Community: Action, Faith, and Joy in the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers (2019). In her current project, she explores the roles of humble heroines in Victorian novels.
Riya Das (ridas@pvamu.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at Prairie View A&M University. Her first monograph, Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature, is forthcoming from The Ohio State University Press and she is working on the first-ever critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus. Both projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her work has appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and elsewhere.
Cameron Dodworth (cdodworth@methodist.edu) is Professor of English at Methodist University. He has published a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (2018) and articles in Brontë Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, Supernatural Studies, Studies in Gothic Fiction, Neo-Victorian Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals. His current book project explores the evolution of the Gothic in nineteenth-century literature and art.
Laura E. Franey (franele@millsaps.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Millsaps College, in...