Contributors
- Contributors
Benjamin Morgan (bjmorgan@uchicago.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. His current book project, Material Pleasures: Victorian Aestheticism and the Science of Beauty, is about physiological responses to beauty in Victorian science and literature.
Helen Rogers (h.rogers@ljmu.ac.uk) is a Reader in Nineteenth Century Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has published on women and radical culture, fatherhood, and life writing, and she is an editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. Her current research is on imprisonment and Christian rehabilitation in the early nineteenth century.
Cannon Schmitt (cannon.schmitt@utoronto.ca) is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (1997) and Darwin and the Memory of the Human: Evolution, Savages, and South America (2009) and coeditor, with Nancy Henry, of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (2008). He is currently at work on a study of Victorian representations of the sea, scientific and novelistic.
Helen Small (helen.small@pmb.ox.ac.uk) is Professor of English at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Her books include The Long Life (2007) and (ed.) The Public Intellectual (2002). She has written extensively on Victorian literature and science, on publishing (especially periodical) history, and on Victorian liberal thought. She has recently completed a book about the most widely accepted arguments for the value of the humanities, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2013.
Thomas Albrecht (talbrech@tulane.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (2009) and the editor of Sarah Kofman: Selected Writings (2007). He is currently writing a book manuscript about the relationship in George Eliot’s work between aesthetics and ethics.
John Batchelor (j.b.batchelor@ncl.ac.uk) is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University and previously a Fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include monographs on H. G. Wells and Virginia Woolf and the biographies The Life of Joseph Conrad (1994), John Ruskin (2000), and Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find (2012). His current project is a study of Kipling.
Michael Bentley (michael.bentley@st-andrews.ac.uk) is Professor of Modern History in the University of St. Andrews. He is author of Modernizing England’s Past (2005) and [End Page 175] The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield (2011), and is currently writing a comparative history of Western historiography.
Alison Booth (ab6j@virginia.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her books include Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992), How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004), and the Longman Cultural Edition of Wuthering Heights; articles relating to celebrity, gender, and authorship have appeared in Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, Narrative, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Collective Biographies of Women (http://womensbios.lib.virginia.edu) experiments with digital interpretation of narrative. Exploration of biography and literary history continues in her book project, “Homes and Haunts: Literary Tourism, Author Museums, and Biography.” She serves on the Advisory Board of NAVSA.
Peter J. Bowler is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of a number of studies of the history of evolutionism; his book Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin will be published by University of Chicago Press in March 2013.
Aviva Briefel (abriefel@bowdoin.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2006), and co-editor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011). She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Amputations: Racial Representation and the Hand in Victorian Narrative.
Preeti Chopra (chopra@wisc.edu) is Associate Professor of Architecture, Urban History, and Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Chopra’s first book, A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011. She is currently working...
