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Contributors
Marsha Bryant is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. Author of Auden and Documentary in the 1930s (1998) and editor of Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs in Literature (1996), she is currently completing a cultural study of women's poetry.
Mercedes Maroto Camino is Professor in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University. She has published three books and numerous articles on early modern exploration, Spanish and European film, early modern women's writing, and history of cartography. Her fourth book is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.
Doris Davis is Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Texarkana, where she teaches courses in women's literature, children's literature, and poetry. She has published articles on Kate Chopin and is currently working on a collection of poems for children. She directs a summer writing program for 150 students in the northeast Texas area and is the recipient of several awards for her contributions toward education in the Red River Valley region.
Janice Doane and Devon Hodges have collaborated on several articles and three books, most recently Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire (2001). Doane is Professor of English at St. Mary's College of California. Hodges is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University.
Winifred Hughes is the author of The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s (1980) and the chapter on "The Sensation Novel" in the Blackwell's Companion to the Victorian Novel. She is Book Review Editor for Victorian Literature and Culture.
Anna Maria Jones is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and critical theory. She is the author of Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (2007). Her articles on Wilkie Collins and George Meredith have appeared in Novel and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory.
Jessica Lewis Luck is a Visiting Lecturer at Indiana University in [End Page 369] Bloomington. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled "Gray Matters: Contemporary Poetry and the Poetics of Cognition," which aims to rethink the ways we understand contemporary bodies and identities through an exploration of human consciousness as theorized in the literary genre of poetry and the science of the embodied mind.
Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson is Professor and Dean of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. She is the chair of the British Association for American Studies and the author of Women's Movement (2000), Courting Failure (2007), and several edited collections.
Jennifer P. Nesbitt is Assistant Professor at Penn State York. She is the author of Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women's Fiction Between the Wars (2005), as well as articles on Sylvia Townsend Warner and Richard Wright. She is currently working on a series of essays comparing the use of rum in mid-century British and West Indian literature.
Lyn Pykett is Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Aberystwyth University. She has published widely on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. Her books include Emily Brontë (1989), The Improper Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing (1992), Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century (1995), Charles Dickens (2002), and Wilkie Collins (2005) for the Oxford "Authors in Contexts" series. She has written on West's journalism and fiction in "The Making of a Modern Woman Writer: Rebecca West's Journalism, 1911-1930" in Journalism, Literature and Modernity from Hazlitt to Modernism edited by Kate Campbell (2000), and "May Sinclair and Rebecca West: Writing around Modernism" in Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-1930 edited by Lynn Hapgood and Nancy Paxton (2000).
Gita Rajan is Associate Professor in the English Department at Fairfield University. Her latest book, New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. (2006), is coedited with Shailja Sharma.
Jill Rappoport, Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University, has published on the gift poetics of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Her forthcoming article on Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is part of a larger book project that explores the gift transactions at the heart of Victorian women's communities. [End Page 370]
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Her most recent book is Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience (2003), and she is currently engaged in research on penny dreadfuls and their relationship to working-class politics.
Laura J. Rosenthal is Professor of English and Associate Chair at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (2006) and Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender, Authorship, Literary Property (1996). She is currently working on a study of eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism with particular attention to gender, travel, and theater in the British empire.
Jennifer Shaddock is Professor and Director of Graduate English at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Her recent publications include an essay on "fallen women" in World War I, published in Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspectives (2007), and an essay published in Modern Fiction Studies on British masculinity in Pat Barker's World War I novel, The Ghost Road.
Meredith Anne Skura is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University. She has written The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process (1981), Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing (1993), and the forthcoming Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness from the University of Chicago Press.
Anna Snaith is a Lecturer in English at King's College, London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (2000) and editor of Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies (2007) and Locating Woolf: The Politics of Space and Place, with Michael Whitworth (2007). She is currently editing Woolf's The Years for Cambridge University Press and working on a monograph provisionally entitled "Colonial Modernism: Women Writing London 1890-1945."
Randilynn Tanglen is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Arizona. She is currently finishing a dissertation that explores the significance of religious difference in the writings of several nineteenth-century American women writers.
Charlotte Templin is Professor of English Emerita at the University of Indianapolis. She is the author of Feminism and the Politics of Literary [End Page 371] Reputation: Erica Jong (1995) and of articles on literary reception and reputation, comic writing, and woman authors. Her interviews with contemporary women novelists appear in Glimmertrain, the Boston Review, and the Missouri Review.
Mary Titus is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Integrative Studies at St. Olaf College. [End Page 372]
