Issue 1 (Winter 2005)

Contributor Biographies

Sarah Alexander graduated from Millikin University (Decatur, Illinois) in 2000 and earned her M.A. at Illinois State University in 2002. A student of Victorian British literature and feminist theory, she is currently working on her dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sarah Hallenbeck is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is studying nineteenth-century British literature, and her interests include intersections between gender and humor, as well as women and medicine during the late Victorian period.

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.

Scott Rode is an Assistant Professor of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British Literature teaching at Texas A & M University – Kingsville. His primary research focus remains Victorian Literature especially the work of Thomas Hardy. His forthcoming book Reading and Mapping Hardy’s Roads will be published by Routledge in June 2006 and gives Hardy scholarship an interpretive spatial turn.