Contributors
- Contributors
Erin O’Connor teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture (2000).
Nicholas Dames, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810–1870 (Oxford, 2001), and of articles on Charlotte Brontë, Austen, Stendhal, and Thackeray. His current project attempts to restore to novel theory a consideration of the modes and forms of novel-reading.
Jennifer Ruth, an Assistant Professor of Literature at Portland State University, has published several essays on Victorian professionalization and professionals. Most recently, her essay “Mental Capital, Industrial Time, and the Professional in David Copperfield” appeared in Novel. That essay and the one printed here are part of a book manuscript analyzing the novel’s role in facilitating the rise of the professional class.
Michael Ruse is Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at Florida State University and the author of many books including Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?, Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology, The Philosophy of Biology, Taking Darwin Seriously, Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion, and Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?.
Richard L. Stein, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, is the author of The Ritual of Interpretation: The Fine Arts as Literature in Ruskin, Rossetti, and Pater, and Victoria’s Year: English Literature and Culture, 1837–1838, as well as articles on the relations of literature and the fine arts. He is currently working on a book about Victorian visuality.
Robert D. Aguirre is Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University. His most recent publications are “Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Trollope’s An Autobiography” in Biography (2002) and “Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas and the Conquest of Mexico, 1822–1848” in Genre (2002). He is finishing a book entitled “Imperial Objects: British Representations of Pre-Columbian Culture, 1821–1900.”
John Bowen is a Reader in the Department of English and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Keele University. He is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (Oxford, 2000), which has recently appeared in paperback, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Victorian Culture. His edition of Barnaby Rudge has just been published by Penguin. [End Page 393]
Laurel Brake lectures at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests are gender and nineteenth-century print culture in general, and press and book history, latenineteenth-century literature and drama, and Walter Pater in particular. Print in Transition: Studies in Media and Book History (2001) and Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (2002), co-edited with Lesley Higgins and Carolyn Williams, are her most recent books.
Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent monograph is Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India (Oxford, 2003). She is currently working on a history of empire in Victorian Britain.
Susan P. Casteras is Professor of Art History at the University of Washington and the author of scores of books and articles on Victorian visual culture. Her recent work includes publications on fairy painting, Henry James, and sempstresses. Future projects include a book on Victorian religious painting as well as essays on emigration, racial stereotypes, and captivity.
Deirdre David is the author of several books dealing with Victorian culture and the editor, most recently, of the Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. She is completing a biography of the British actress Fanny Kemble.
Ian Christopher Fletcher is an Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. He co-edited European Imperialism: 1830–1930 (1999) and Women’s Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation, and Race (2000), and recently edited Citizenship, National Identity, Race, and Diaspora in Contemporary Europe (Radical History Review 83, 2002). He is a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective.
Marah Gubar completed a PhD in English Literature at Princeton University in 2002. An Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, she is currently working on a book entitled “Artful Dodgers: The Child as Collaborator in Victorian Children...
