ISSUE 2.1 (SPRING 2006)

Contributor Biographies

Criscillia Benford is a collegiate assistant professor and Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she teaches World Literature. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature and material culture, as well as narrative theory and gender studies. Currently she is at work on a book-length study of the ways in which narrative structure, particularly plot, can be used to denote social difference; the manuscript is entitled “The Multiplot Structure and the Dynamics of Social Orders.”

Tracey Colvin is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park where she is pursuing a Doctorate in English with an emphasis in Disability Studies. She holds a M.A. from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she was a Teaching Fellow, and a B.A. from the University of Arizona.

Lana Dalley will be joining the faculty of California State University, Fullerton as Assistant Professor of English in Fall 2006. In 2005 she completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Washington. Her current book project, “Writing the Economic Woman: Gender, Political Economy, and Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature,” examines the interrelationship of economic and literary discourses in women’s writing, with an emphasis on gender.

Amanda Mordavsky is a third year Ph.D. student at the University of Sheffield (UK). She is currently writing her dissertation entitled, “The Decadent Scientist in British Popular Fiction from the Fin de Siècle.” She has published on science and literature in nineteenth-century Britain and has recently organized an international interdisciplinary conference entitled “Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain.”

Padmini Ray Murray is currently completing her Ph.D. at the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation is on the reification of gender and nation in Byron's poetry, and her interests include Romanticism and the history of the book.

Helen Rogers teaches literature and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England (Ashgate, 2000) and co-editor with Trev Lynn Broughton of Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2007). She is currently working on a project entitled “Domesticity and the Labouring Woman in the Nineteenth Century.”

Ellen Bayuk Rosenman is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience (Cornell 2003) and has also published on George Eliot, G.W.M. Reynolds, sensation fiction, and Virginia Woolf. She is currently working on a book on working class fiction.

Audra Rouse is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is completing her dissertation on representations of women and violence in Victorian sensation fiction.

Marianne Szlyk, an Assistant Professor of English at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, writes writes on British literature and, occasionally, on computers and composition. Her review of Paula Byrne's 2004 biography of actor and author Mary Robinson appeared in Lifewriting Annual.

Terra Walston, a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is interested in the intersections of Victorian anthropology, imperialism, and Victorian literature.