Biographies
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Constance M. Fulmer is Associate Dean for Teaching and Assessment at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, and holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English Literature. With Margaret E. Barfield, she published A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox’s Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (1998) and is currently working on a biography of Simcox as well as a study of George Eliot’s moral messages.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, specializes in Victorian literature and culture with an emphasis on historical media studies (periodicals, illustrated poetry, serial fiction, print culture); gender and women’s studies; and transnationality. Most recently she authored the Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010), which places poetry in the context of print culture, and co-edited with Sharon M. Harris A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (4 vol., Cambridge UP, 2013).
Anne Humpherys is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Travels in the Poor Man’s Country: The Work of Henry Mayhew and co-editor of G. W. M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics and the Press, as well as articles and reviews on nineteenth-century journalism, fiction, and poetry, with a special interest in the works of Dickens and the impact of divorce law on fiction of the period.
Dominic Janes is a senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, who studies the relationships between art, religion, and sexuality. His book, Victorian Reformation: The Fight over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840–1860, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. [End Page 154] He is currently completing a new manuscript, Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman.
Lauren Harmsen Kiehna is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, women’s writing, popular fiction, and travel writing. She is currently completing a dissertation on respectability and the nineteenth-century bigamy novel.
Patrick Leary is a recent past president of RSVP. His most recent book is The Punch Brotherhood: Table-Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London (British Library, 2010). He is working on a survey of the literary life in nineteenth-century London.
Katherine Malone is Assistant Professor of English at South Dakota State University. Her research focuses on gender and genre in nineteenth-century literary criticism. She is currently writing a book on the role of women critics in Victorian periodicals. Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review and English Literature in Transition.
Caroline Reitz is an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY. She is the author of Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture (2004), as well as articles on Victorian serials, Victorian travel writing, and contemporary female detective fiction.
Paul Rooney recently completed his doctoral research at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His thesis focuses on readers and Victorian print culture, particularly the consumption of popular fiction. He currently teaches in the English Department at NUI, Galway, and is working on a number of minor Victorian writers, such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Griffiths, and Anna Katharine Green. His other research interests include Victorian stage adaptations of the popular novel.
Jasper Schelstraete is a doctoral student at Ghent University who is working on nationality and authorial identity in the mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-American transatlantic marketplace. His most recent publication is the chapter “‘Literary adventurers’: Editorship, Non-fiction Authorship and Anonymity” in Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850–1870 (2013).
Minna Vuohelainen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and MA Programme Leader at Edge Hill University. Her current research focuses on fin-de-siècle print culture, literary representations of London, and the discursive overlap between Gothic fiction and factual discourses at the fin de siècle. She has also produced several critical editions of Richard Marsh’s work for Valancourt. [End Page 155]
