Contributors
- Contributors
Stefanie Markovits (stefanie.markovits@yale.edu), Associate Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (2006) and The Crimean War in the British Imagination (2009). She is currently working on a study of the Victorian verse-novel.
Christopher Todd Matthews (matthewsc@wlu.edu) received his PhD from the University of Michigan and teaches English at Washington and Lee University. His essays have appeared in Victorian Studies and Nineteenth-Century Literature. He is currently at work on a new project on late-century theories of poetic composition and scientific efforts to establish proof of an afterlife.
Matthew Rowlinson (mrowlins@uwo.ca) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Real Money and Romanticism (2010) and Tennyson’s Fixations: Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the Early Poetry (1994), as well as articles and reviews. This essay is part of a larger project on embodied culture in the nineteenth century.
Lynn Abrams (lynn.abrams@glasgow.ac.uk) is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World: Shetland 1800–2000 (2005) and co-editor of Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 (2005) and A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland (2010).
Nina Auerbach (nauerbac@english.upenn.edu) has written and lectured widely on Victorian literature and the Victorian theater. Her books include Ellen Terry, Player in her Time and Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians (1987).
Samuel Baker (sebaker@austin.utexas.edu) teaches in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture (2010). His current research interests include ethical philosophy in the Romantic novel and media theories of and in early modern print culture.
Marshall Brown (mbrown@uw.edu) is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington and editor of Modern Language Quarterly. His most recent books are The Gothic Text (2005) and “The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul”: Essays on Music and Poetry (2010). [End Page 691]
Julie Carr (julie.carr@colorado.edu) is author, most recently, of 100 Notes on Violence (2010), winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and National Poetry Series winner, Sarah—of Fragments and Lines (2010). She has published articles on Victorian poetry and her book, “Surface Tension: Ruptured Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late-Victorian Poetry,” is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. She teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Geoffrey Clark (clarkgw@potsdam.edu) is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Potsdam. He is the author of Betting on Lives: Life Insurance in English Society and Culture, 1695–1775 (1999) and most recently editor of The Appeal of Insurance, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.
Nicholas Daly (nicholas.daly@ucd.ie) is the Chair in Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He is the author of three monographs on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, most recently Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (2009). He is working on a study of the circulation of narratives and images of the urban among Paris, London, and New York.
Deirdre David (ddavid@temple.edu) is Professor Emerita of English at Temple University. She is the author of a number of books dealing with Victorian culture and women’s lives and most recently published Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life (2007). She is now at work on her second biography, a study of Olivia Manning, the twentieth-century British novelist.
Felix Driver (f.driver@rhul.ac.uk) is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire (2001) and co-author of Hidden Histories of Exploration (2009). He is editor of the Journal of Historical Geography and an editor of History Workshop Journal.
Asaf Federman (a.federman@warwick.ac.uk) is an independent scholar and Senior Careers Consultant at Warwick University. His research examines the interface of Buddhism and cognitive science, and he has published articles about comparative philosophy and...
