Contributors
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Alan Barr is a Professor of English at Indiana University Northwest, where he specializes in Victorian Literature and Modern Drama. He has recently written on Meredith's "Modern Love" (for Victorian Poetry) on David Copperfield and compiled two volumes on Huxley (The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley [1997] and Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary Essays [1997]). He has published variously on such dramatists as Ibsen, O'Neill, and Shaw and on such films as Lone Star, Persona, and Last Tango in Paris and is now working on a comparative study of the place of art in Aurora Leigh and The Ring and the Book.
D.M.R. Bentley is a Distinguished University Professor and the Carl F. Klinck Professor in Canadian Literature at Western University. Among his recent publications are '"A Very Clever and Finished Piece of Writing': William Michael Rossetti's 'Mrs. Holmes Grey,'" Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (2011), "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Inner Standing-Point' and 'Jenny' Reconstrued," University of Toronto Quarterly (2011): "The Romantic Aesthetics of Settlement in 19th Century Canada," Literary Compass (2012), and a scholarly edition of John Howison's Sketches of Upper Canada (2012).
Michelle Geric is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster. Her current research focuses on the exchanges and relationships between poetry, poetics, and geological theory from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
John Hughes is Professor of Ninteteenth-Century Literature at the University of Gloucestershire. He has published widely in journals and edited collections on nineteenth-century writing (particularly Hardy and Wordsworth) and on twentieth-century philosophy and literary theory. He has also written four books: Lines of Flight (1996), "Ecstatic Sound": Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy (2001), "Affective Worlds": Writing, Feeling, Nineteenth-Century Literature (2011), and (forthcoming) "Invisible Now": Bob Dylan in the 1960s (2013). He is currently working on the links between Wordsworth's writing and his early orphaning and has recently published articles on this topic in Romanticism, The Explicator, and Studies in Romanticism.
Mary Mullen is the deputy director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at UW-Milwaukee. Her current book project, "Anachronistic Forms: [End Page 127] The Nineteenth-Century Novel's Misplaced Modernity," argues that the nineteenth-century novel's prevalent anachronisms disrupt the progressive plotting of imperial history and the homogeneous, empty time of the nation. An excerpt from this project is forthcoming in Place, Progress, and Personhood in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. Emily Morris, Sarina Gruver Moore, and Lesa Scholl.
Megan Torti is a Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan where she plans to pursue research on Victorian literature and science. [End Page 128]
