Editors/Founding Editors:

Stacey Floyd is an Assistant Professor of English at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is currently working on co-editing New Woman Writers, Authority and the Body and contributing an essay to MLA's Options for Teaching Laboring-Class Literature. Her research and teaching interests include representations of the working class in the long nineteenth century as well as women's writing and body studies.

Melissa Purdue is an Assistant Professor at Minnesota State at Mankato. Her current research focuses on representations of motherhood, interracial marriage and women’s sexuality in New Woman colonial fiction. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Revista Atenea, Genre and Women Behaving Badly: Female Transgression in 18th and 19th Century Literature (eds. Harriet Devine Jump & Margaret Forsyth). She is also currently editing an edition of Rosa Campbell Praed’s Fugitive Anne: A Romance of the Unexplored Bush (1902) for Valancourt Books and co-editing New Woman Writers, Authority and the Body for Cambridge Scholars Press.

Reviews Editor:

Mary Jean Corbett is the John W. Steube Professor of English and Affiliate of the Women’s Studies Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1989.  Her research and teaching interests include English and Irish literatures of the long nineteenth century, especially women’s writing, lifewriting, and the novel.  Her new book, tentatively entitled “Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and ‘Incest’ from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf,” is forthcoming from Cornell University Press in 2008.  She is also the author of Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies (Oxford UP, 1992), a study of self-representations by writers, actresses, and political activists; and Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: History, Politics, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold (Cambridge UP, 2000).

Assistant to the Reviews Editor:

Zach Weir is a PhD candidate in English at Miami University, currently funded by a dissertation fellowship from Miami’s Graduate School. His dissertation, entitled “Fashioning Englishness: Dress, Empire, and the Accoutrements of National Identity, 1800-Present,” explores archival and print materials to interrogate the confluence of fashion, dress, and national identity within the British textile industry. Zach holds the BA/BS (with a double major in History and Botany) and the MA in English from Marshall University. His most recent publications include essays in Postcolonial Text and Imperium.

Technical Editor:

Joshua Reid is a PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky, where he is also completing an MA in Art History. Although his specialty is actually Renaissance English literature, Josh follows the interarts discourse throughout all periods, as shown by his Art History thesis (in progress): “Softening the Brows of Dread Renown: Rossetti and His Vita Nuova Dante.”

Advisory Board:

Annmarie Adams is William C. Macdonald Professor at the School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, where she co-directs the graduate option, “Domestic Environments/Cultural Landscapes. Educated as an architect (M.Arch. 1986) and architectural historian (Ph.D. 1992) at the University of California at Berkeley, her major areas of research are healthcare design, vernacular architecture and gendered space. Adams’s publications include, Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (McGill-Queens University Press, 1996) and Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (University of Toronto Press, 2000) co-authored with sociologist Peta Tancred. Her new book, Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2007. During 2007-08 she is at the first Arcus Scholar-in-Residence at the University of California at Berkeley, where she will teach a seminar entitled “Sex and the Single Building.”

James Eli Adams teaches in the English Department at Cornell, where he is Director of Graduate Studies. He is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (1995), the general editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era (2004), the joint editor, with Andrew Miller, of Sexualities in Victorian Britain (1996), and the author of some three dozen articles, chapters, and reviews, mostly on Victorian gender and sexuality. From 1993-2000 he co-edited Victorian Studies, where he remains on the Advisory Board. He is a former Chair of the Executive Committee for the MLA Division on the Victorian Period, and is the current President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association.

Ann Ardis is a professor of English and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of Delaware. She is the author of New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism (Rutgers, 1990) and Modernism and Cultural Conflict (Cambridge, 2002) and the co-editor, with Leslie Lewis, of Women’s Experience of Modernity (Johns Hopkins, 2002) and, with Bonnie Kime Scott, of Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries (Pace, 2000). With Patrick Collier, she is currently editing a collection of essays on Anglo-American print culture, 1880-1940, which Palgrave will publish in 2008. She is also working currently on a single-author study, tentatively entitled "Before the Great Divides: Anglo-American Modernism in the Public Sphere, 1890-1922," about periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic at the turn of the century that sought to engage an increasingly diverse public in discussions of "modern" literature, art, and politics.

Mary A. Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She specializes in the Victorian novel and queer theory, and is currently preparing a book-length manuscript on articulations of female homoerotic desires in nineteenth-century fiction. Her most recent publications appear in Nineteenth Century Studies (2004) and Victorian Literature and Culture (2005).

Alison Booth is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (U Chicago P, 2004), winner of the WAWH Barbara Penny Kanner Prize, and Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cornell UP, 1992), and editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (1993). Currently president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, she is co-editor of the Norton Introduction to Literature (8th and 9th editions), and serves on the Board of the University of Virginia Press. With Herbert Tucker and other colleagues, she is co-organizer of the Third Annual North American Victorian Studies Association Conference in 2005 at the University of Virginia. Articles spanning Victorian to contemporary culture in Britain and the U.S. have appeared in Victorian Studies, Narrative, Kenyon Review, American Literary History, and other journals and collections. Her focus in recent years on prosopography or collective biographical history emerged from her rediscovery of more than 900 volumes of short lives of women published in English between 1830-1940 (not counting reference works); the online bibliography is a continually expanding resource: <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/WomensBios>. Her recent work on the theory and history of life narrative and prosopography has appeared in Blackwell's Companion to Narrative Theory (2005) or will soon appear in Life Writing and Victorian Culture, ed. Amigoni (Ashgate) and Journal of Victorian Culture. She is engaged in a book-length study of the "homes and haunts" genre as a form of prosopography that unites literary tourism, life narrative, and gothic conventions.

Anna Brzyski is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at University of Kentucky. Her research interests focus on Central/Eastern European, in particular, Polish art world during the late 19th and early 20th century. Her work has appeared in Art Criticism, Centropa, 19th Century Art Worldwide, Art and National Identity at the Turn of the Century, edited by Michelle Facos and Sharon Hirsh (Cambridge 2003), and Local Strategies-International Ambitions: Modern Art and Central Europe, 1918-1968, edited by Vojtech Lehoda (Czech Academy of Sciences, forthcoming in 2005). She co-edited with Peter Chametzky a special issue of Centropa (September 2001) entitled "Modernism and Nationalism, Postmodernism and Postnationalism?" and is currently working on two book projects, an anthology Partisan Canons (Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2006) and Art in the Age of Art History. Anna is also the Editor of Eurotexture, the HGCEA [Historians of German & Central European Art and Architecture] newsletter, and the manager of the HGCEA website. Her personal website can be found at: www.uky.edu/~abrzy2/

Susan Casteras served for many years as Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art before moving to Seattle, where she is Professor of Art History at the University of Washington. The author of several dozen books, articles, and essays on Victorian visual culture, she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Her current research focuses on various iconological subjects, including a book on Victorian religious painting.

Anna Clark is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the editor of the Journal of British Studies. She is the author of The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995) and Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004), as well as articles on nineteenth-century domestic violence, politics, and sexuality.

Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. She favors cross-disciplinary history, and in both her writing and her teaching examines Britain’s past in a broader European, imperial, and global context. Born in Britain, she graduated from Bristol University with First Class Honors in history (1972) and completed her Ph.D. in history at Cambridge University (1977). The first female Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, she moved to Yale University in 1982. Her first book, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982), challenged the dominant view by arguing that the Tory party remained active and potent during their years out of power. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992), which won the Wolfson Prize for History, shows how the inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to see themselves as British over the course of the 18th century. In 1998 Professor Colley left Yale to accept a Senior Leverhulme Research Professorship in History at the London School of Economics. Supported by the award, she spent the next five years researching the experiences of the thousands of Britons who were taken captive in North America, South Asia, and the Mediterranean and North Africa between 1600 and 1850 as the British Empire expanded. Captives (2002), the result of this research, uses captivity narratives to investigate the vulnerability of the empire, the complex relations between the imperialists and the societies they sought to invade, and the flexibility of individual identity. She is also the author of Namier (1989), a reappraisal of the Polish-born historian Lewis Namier.

Andrew Elfenbein received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He is now Professor of English at the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, where he has taught since 1991. His books include Byron and the Victorians (Cambridge 1995) and Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role (1999). He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of British Studies, and is working on a book entitled Romantic English.

Mary A. Favret is associate professor of English and adjunct professor in Gender Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her publications include work on gender and genre in Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge UP, 1993); At the Limits of Romanticism; Essays in Cultural, Feminist and Materialist Criticism (Indiana UP, 1994), co-edited with Nicola Watson; as well as articles on women writers of the romantic period, such as Wollstonecraft, Austen, Barbauld, Shelley, and Williams. Her current research considers how writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century registers a consciousness and feeling of global war.

Eileen Gillooly is Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She is the author of Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (U of Chicago P, 1999)--winner of the Perkins Prize by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (2001)--and of essays and reviews in Victorian Studies, ELH, Feminist Studies, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. She is the editor of Rudyard Kipling (Sterling, 2000), Robert Browning (Sterling, 2001) and (with James Buzard and Joseph Childers) Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace (University of Virginia P, forthcoming, Fall 2006). Current projects include writing a book entitled Anxious Affection: Parental Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Britain and editing David Copperfield (Norton Critical Edition).

Lauren M. E. Goodlad is associate professor of English and a member of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching and research interests include Victorian and Edwardian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial, and political theory; cultural studies; and literature in its relation to contemporary understandings of liberalism, globalization, and development. She is the author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (Johns Hopkins, 2003), and the co-editor of Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007). Her articles on Victorian culture have appeared in journals such as ELH, Genre, PMLA, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Studies. Professor Goodlad is currently at work on Victorian Internationalisms: British Literary Encounters with "the South."

Since receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago, Antony Harrison has taught at North Carolina State University, where he is now Professor and Department Head. He has published widely in Victorian poetry, with an emphasis on theorized historicist approaches to texts, and on gender issues, intertextuality, and textual editing. He has published books on Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, intertextual relationships among Romantic and Victorian poets, and culture and discourse in Victorian poetry. He has edited the letters of Christina Rossetti in four volumes, a special double issue of Victorian Poetry on Christina Rossetti, and a special issue of The John Donne Journal on the Metaphysical Poets in the Nineteenth Century. He has co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry, Gender and Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art, and The Culture of Christina Rossetti. He has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and also held fellowships from the NEH and ACLS. His new book, The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold, is nearing completion.

Cynthia Huff is a professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University. She is the author of British Women's Diaries: A Descriptive Bibliography, editor of Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities, and co-editor of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. She has published articles in such journals as Biography, a/b, Victorian Review, and Prose Studies. She is working on a study of the construction of Victorian families in life writing.

Parmita Kapadia is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. She specializes in colonial and post-colonial appropriations of canonical British texts. In particular, she focuses on Shakespeare productions from the Indian sub-continent. She has published on the use of traditional, indigenous stage practices in Shakespeare productions, the application of Sanskritic theatrical conventions on the contemporary Bombay stage, and the construction of an "Indian" nationhood in the Hindi cinema. She is currently working on a book project on international Shakespeares.

Claudia C. Klaver, Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, specializes in Victorian literature and culture and gender theory. She is the author of A/Moral Economics: Classical Political Economy and Cultural Authority in Nineteenth-Century England (Ohio State University Press, 2003), “Imperial Economics: Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy and the Narration of Empire” (forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture), “Domesticity Under Siege: English Women and Imperial Crisis, Lucknow, 1857” (Women’s Writing 8: 2001), and other articles on Victorian culture. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled “Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal,” with Ellen Rosenmen and working on a book manuscript on the affective knowledges produced by first-person memoirs of public events in Victorian Britain.

Dejan Kuzmanovic is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His teaching and research interests are focused on 19th- and 20th-century British literature, gay and lesbian literature, as well as psychoanalytic and queer theories. He is currently working on transforming his doctoral dissertation "Seduction Rhetoric, Masculinity, and Homoeroticism in Wilde, Gide, Stoker, and Forster" into a book manuscript. He is also researching and contemplating the notion of "queer ethics."

Christopher Lane is Professor of English at Northwestern University. He's the author of four books on nineteenth-century British literature and culture: The Ruling Passion (Duke, 1995), The Burdens of Intimacy (Chicago, 1999), Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia, 2004, 2006), and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007). He's also editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia, 1998) and a co-editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Chicago, 2001) and James Purdy: Selected Plays (Northwestern, 2007). His teaching and research interests focus chiefly on late-Victorian fiction, psychology (including psychoanalysis), and philosophy.

Ruth Livesey is Deputy Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies and a lecturer in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests focus upon gender and the history of ideas in later nineteenth century culture. She has published articles on gender, philanthropy and urban exploration in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Women's History Review and more recent work on William Morris and socialist aesthetics has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Politics, Aesthetics and the New Life: Socialism and the Gender of Literary Culture in Britain, 1880-1914, which is due to appear in the British Academy Postdoctoral Monograph series with Oxford University Press.

Dianne Sachko Macleod is a Professor of Art History and an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of California at Davis. She was educated in Canada before obtaining her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities scholar. Her articles have appeared in journals specializing in art history, aesthetics, history, and literature. Her book, Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1996) was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History by the American Philosophical Society and voted best book in 19th-century studies by the Historians of British Art (U.S.A.). She has also co-edited a collection of essays, Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture (1998). She recently published Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 (2008).

Teresa Mangum, Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, is the author of Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel (U Michigan P, 1998). She is completing a book on Victorian attitudes toward aging and beginning a project, "Victorian Arguments With Animals." She is guest editor of two journal issues on late life: "Fashioning Age: Cultural Narratives of Later Life," Journal of Aging Studies (2003), and "Late Life in Common Culture," Journal of Aging and Identity (2002) and recently edited a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2006) focused on the teaching of periodicals.

Gail Marshall has recently accepted a position as Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth (Cambridge, 1998) and Victorian Fiction (Arnold, 2002), and has edited George Eliot (Pickering & Chatto, 2003) and co-edited two volumes of essays on Victorian Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). She is particularly interested in the intersections between different cultural forms, and is currently working on a monograph study of the relationships between Shakespeare and Victorian Women.

Sara L. Maurer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She has published articles on Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels, the paradox of wifely ownership in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series, and the rhetoric of land law in Victorian Ireland and India. Her current book project is entitled Possessive Dispossessions: Narratives of Ownership in the Nineteenth-Century English and Irish Novel.

Anne K. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at UCLA. She is the author of books on the art and poetry of William Blake, on English romantic irony, on Mary Shelley's life and fiction, on Romanticism and gender, and on women's political writing in England, 1780-1830. She is currently producing editions of Wollstonecraft and of Lucy Aikin, and working on the intersections of race and gender in British Romantic women's writing.

Sally Mitchell, now Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University, is editor of a new series from Praeger, Victorian Life and Times. Her most recent book is Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (University of Virginia Press, 2004). She also wrote The New Girl (Columbia UP, 1995), edited Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1988), and has published books and articles on women writers, popular fiction, cheap periodicals and other topics. In addition, she is past president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, has served a term on the MLA Executive Committee for the Victorian Period, and was for many years a member of the faculty board of review for Temple University Press.

Mark Mossman is an Associate Professor of English at Western Illinois University where he researches and teaches 19th Century British Literature and Disability Studies. He has published numerous articles on such figures as Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Lamb, Thomas Hardy, and W.B. Yeats, and on such issues as autobiography, the representation of the disabled body, and the dynamics of disability in the postmodern University classroom. He is currently working on a project that links the origins of the category of the disabled to the emergence of British Romanticism.

Deborah Epstein Nord teaches in the English Department at Princeton University, where she also served for many years as director of the Program in the Study of Women and Gender. She is the author of The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb, Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City, and the forthcoming Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 and editor of a scholarly edition of John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. Prof. Nord currently serves on the advisory board of NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association).

Linda H. Peterson is Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of Victorian Autobiography (1986) and Traditions of Victorian Women’s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999), and the editor of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (2003), Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë (Pickering & Chatto, 2006), and Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography (Broadview, 2007). She is currently at work on a study of 19th-century women’s entry into the profession of letters, and has published numerous essays on Victorian poetry and prose including "Alice Meynell's Preludes (1875): Preludes to What Future of Poetry?" in VLC (2006); "From French Revolution to English Reform: Hannah More, Harriet Martineau, and the 'Little Book,'" NCL (2006); "Charlotte Riddell's A Struggle for Fame: Myths of Authorship, Facts of the Market" in Women's Writing (2004); "Women Writers and Self-Writing," in Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900 (2001); "Sage Writing," in A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, (1999); and "Restoring the Book: The Typological Hermeneutics of Christina Rossetti and the PRB," Victorian Poetry (1994).

Mary Poovey is the Samuel Rudin University Professor of English and founder of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. Her books include A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (Chicago), Making a Social Body (Chicago), Uneven Developments (Chicago), and The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer (Chicago).

Ellen Bayuk Rosenman is a Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Her most recent book is Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience (Cornell 2003), and she has published on George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and Virginia Woolf. She is currently co-editing an essay collection on Victorian maternity with Claudia Klaver, Other Mothers: Beyond the Victorian Maternal Ideal (Ohio State UP), and beginning a book-length project on Victorian working class literature.

Julia F. Saville, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the author of A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000) as well as various articles on Victorian poetry and painting. She is currently working on a project provisionally entitled Bathing Boys: An Aesthetics of the Male Nude in Victorian Literature and Culture.

Talia Schaffer is an associate professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her books include The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (2001); Women and British Aestheticism (1999), co-edited with Kathy A. Psomiades; a new edition of Lucas Malet’s 1901 novel The History of Sir Richard Calmady (2004); and a forthcoming reader, Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle. She has published widely on late-Victorian noncanonical novels, women’s writing, and material culture. Her book in progress analyzes the Victorian domestic handicraft as a model for mid-Victorian realism.

SueAnn Schatz is associate professor in English as well as coordinator of the Women's Studies program at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching interests include Romanticism, Victorian literature, women writers, British novel, feminist literature, women's studies, Native American fiction, business writing, introduction to literature and composition. Schatz has been published in Poetry Criticism, Philological Quarterly, Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers, and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

Mrinalini Sinha teaches history and women's studies at Penn State University, University Park. She served as the North American co-editor for Gender and History from 1996 to 2000. Her areas of specialty include colonial India and British imperial history. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' (1995; 1998) and co-editor of Feminisms and Internationalism (1999). She also edited, annotated, and provided an introduction for Katherine Mayo's 1927 text Mother India (1999; 2000). Her forthcoming publications include a book, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, that will be published in 2006; and a new edition of Colonial Masculinity that will also appear in 2006. She is currently working on a monograph on political mobilizations against imperialism in the interwar period.

Mandy Treagus is in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, where she teaches both contemporary and late-nineteenth century literary and cultural studies, and media. She has published in the areas of eugenics and early women's sport, Victorian and postcolonial literature and contemporary popular culture. Some of her work has appeared in Kunapipi, The International Journal for the History of Sport, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Journal. She is currently researching Maori and Pacific Islander tours of Europe and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Alison W. Yarrington is the Richmond Professor and Head of the Department of Art History at the University of Glasgow. Professor Yarrington's research interests are in the areas of sculpture c.1750-1914 and British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of The Commemoration of the Hero 1800-1864 (1988), An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, RA (1994), co-editor of The Lustrous Trade: Material Culture and the History of Sculpture in England and Italy c.1700-1866, and has written articles on the patronage and practice of nineteenth - and early twentieth-century sculpture. She is currently writing a history of women sculptors and is Director of the regional Public Monuments and Sculpture Association National Recording Project for the East Midlands.

Review Board:

Christine A. Anderson is a Ph.D. Candidate in modern British history at the University of Kansas.  Her dissertation examines how notions of "modernity" performed on stage shaped a new femininity and political consciousness for middle-class women in London between 1890-1914.  She holds a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster and a M.A. in British history from the University of Kansas.  In her work as a historian outside of academia, Christine has published a book entitled, The Struggle for Unity and Justice: Celebrating 75 Years of the Illinois Conference of Churches 1930-2005 (Springfield, IL: Rudin Publishing, 2005).  As an accomplished violinist, she also is involved in bringing the humanities and arts together in a variety of interdisciplinary programs.  Her research interests include gender, class, and cultural history of Victorian and Edwardian England with a specific focus on the discourses and representations of the New Woman, consumerism, women’s suffrage, fin-de-siècle culture, performance studies, and feminist theory.

Jessica Barnes-Pietruszynski is faculty at West Virginia State University. She is also a PhD candidate at Illinois State University where she is working on her dissertation on the discursive identity construction of the British Empire through gender, specifically in the connection between the fallen woman and the colonized subaltern. She holds a BA from Drake University and an MA from Western Illinois University. Her main interests include nineteenth century British literature, feminist literary and pedagogical theory, and material-historical constructions of gender.

Collette Colligan is Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her essays have appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorian Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Lisa Z. Sigel's edited collection International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-1900 (Rutgers UP, 2005). Her book, The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Literature, is forthcoming in 2006 with Palgrave Publishers. She is also at work on a study of "The Pornography of the Real."

Jessica Damián is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, where she teaches literature and composition. Her current book project, Mining Romanticism: British Women Writers and South America, 1770-1860, examines the role which mining played in the construction of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.  In particular, she is interested in how women’s writing commented upon, questioned, and critiqued England’s transatlantic exploration and trade in the Americas.   Jessica has published on Caribbean literature and serves on the Editorial Board of Anthurium: A Caribbean Literary Studies Journal.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami at Coral Gables.

Emily Dotson is a PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky. She holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina and an M.A. from Murray State University. Her research interests include class, psychoanalysis and gender.

Hannah Freeman is a doctoral student and instructor at the University of Kentucky studying the long nineteenth-century in British literature, beginning with the Romantic period and concluding with First World War literature. Particularly interested in the works of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence, her main interests include the way in which the pastoral and the agrarian past are remembered. She has presented papers at conferences on the pastoral and nostalgia in such writers as Eliot and Austen.

Denise Fulbrook’s research interests include Nineteenth-century British Literature, Theories of Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Theory, Women’s Literature, History of the Novel, Science and Literature, and Cultural Studies. She was recently awarded for her teaching with the University of Kentucky’s Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award. Fulbrook has published articles on Dickens and Austen and is currently working on a book entitled Medusa’s Tails and Leonardo’s Heads: Creativity, Psychoanalysis and Nineteenth-century Literature.

Jessica L. Hollis is a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky where she is completing a dissertation on how class difference is figured through representations of certain spaces and types of space (interior, urban, cartographic) in eighteenth-century fiction. She holds a certificate in Social Theory from the University of Kentucky and a certificate in Criticism and Theory from Cornell University. She has also served as editor of disclosure: a Journal of Social Theory. Her main interests include spatial and class theory, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American fiction, narrative theory, the novel, and literary representations of "the prostitute."

Shuchi Kapila teaches British and Postcolonial Studies at Grinnell College. She has taught at Miranda House (Delhi University, Delhi, India), Cornell University, and Kenyon College before coming to Grinnell. She received her B.A (Hons.), M.A. and M.Phil degrees from Delhi University, and a Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Her research interests include colonial and postcolonial studies, Victorian fiction, South Asian fiction, and literary theory. She has published articles in Interventions, Victorian Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and is currently working on a book on family romances of British India.

Meegan Kennedy is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. Her research interests include the history of the novel, Victorian medicine and science, Victorian visual culture, and the fiction of empire. She has recently published articles in Victorian Literature and Culture and Women's Writing, and she is currently revising a book manuscript on medical narrative and the Victorian novel.

Kathrin Levitan is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2006. She specializes in nineteenth-century British history, and her current research is on the cultural history of the nineteenth-century British census.

Jodie Mader is PhD candidate in History at the University of Kentucky currently working on her dissertation on the antiwar movement in the South African War, 1899-1902. Mader holds a BA from Thomas More College and a MA from the University of Cincinnati. Her main fields of study include the fin de siècle period in Britain and issues of gender, empire, class, nationality, citizenship, and war and identity.

Julie Melnyk received her BA in English and Mathematics summa cum laude from Haverford College, her M.Phil from Oxford University (English Literature 1789-1880), and her PhD in English from the University of Virginia. Now Associate Director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri, Columbia, she continues her research into 19C women's religious writing. In addition to producing numerous articles and scholarly presentations on this topic, she has edited two collections of original scholarly essays: Women's Theology in 19th-Century Britain (1998) and, with Nanora Sweet, Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the 19th Century (2001). Her book on Christianity, Community, and Subjectivity in Victorian Women's Religious Literature is currently under consideration at Cambridge University Press, and she is working on a book for general readers on religion in Victorian Britain.

Amy Munson is a PhD candidate at Purdue University in the fields of eighteenth-century literature and Women’s Studies. She holds a BA and MA from Illinois State University and completed an Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship at Indiana University. Research areas include the novel, medicine and the female body, the works of Frances Sheridan and the development of Great Britain as a nation. Her dissertation looks specifically at the maternal body and its involvement in the rise of this British national identity.

Julie Nash is an Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. Her published works include articles on Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Fay Weldon. She is co-editor of New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte (Ashgate Publishing, 2001) and editor of New Essays on Maria Edgeworth (forthcoming, Ashgate Publishing). She is currently writing a book about servants in novels by Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Katherine Osborne is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Kentucky. She focuses on the Romantic and Victorian periods and is especially interested in literature by and about women and how gender is constructed in literature. Osborne serves on the English Graduate Student Organization executive board at UK as well as the editorial board for Limestone.

George Micajah Phillips teaches 19th- and 20th-century British literature at the University of Kentucky. He has contributed to Hypermedia Joyce Studies and disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, where he served as art co-editor (with Mathias Detamore) for the 2007 issue.

Christopher Reese, originally from Cleveland, MS, completed undergraduate work at Delta State University in Cleveland and then did Master's work at the University of Southern MS in Hattiesburg before coming to the University of Kentucky for doctoral studies. His areas of specialty include the long Eighteenth Century, the history of the novel, comedy/humor studies, novels by women, and especially the work of Jane Austen.

Janice Schroeder is an Assistant Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her research interests are in Victorian women's journalism and the relationship between print and speech cultures in Victorian England. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Nineteenth-Century British Women's Education, 1840-1900 for Routledge's History of Feminism series. Her work has appeared in such venues as Nineteeth-Century Contexts, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Victorian Periodicals Review.

Priya Shah is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently working on her doctorate in the fields of Victorian and Postcolonial Studies with emphases in Women's Studies and Asian American Studies. Her dissertation investigates the intersections between the gendered, raced, classed, and sexualized discourse of luxurious consumption, the material artifacts and discursive constructs of fashion and finery, and the economies of colonial desire.

Brent Shannon completed his PhD in 2003 at the University of Kentucky, specializing in Victorian Literature and gender theory. He is currently revising his dissertation, "ReFashioning Masculinity," into a book-length study of consumer culture and popular Victorian texts. Shannon currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor at Transylvania University.

Allison Steele is a doctoral candidate and instructor at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests are 19th-century British literature, ecofeminism, and space/place studies (focusing most specifically on pastoral and complex pastoral). She is currently working on an article entitled “The Carrier Bag of Ecofeminist Dreams: Contextualizing Carson, Kingsolver, and Walker Within an Ecofeminist Search for Validation” to be considered in a collection on women writing nature.

Nicola Tarrant-Hoskins teaches 19th- and 20th-century British literature at the University of Kentucky. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, she is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Kentucky. She has studied at Auckland University, New Zealand, and has an MA and Women's Studies Certificate from the University of Kentucky. Her areas of interest include representations of motherhood in Victorian and Modernist texts. Her dissertation project investigates Katherine Mansfield as muse to D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and Virginia Woolf.