Issue 14.1 (Spring 2018)

Contributor Biographies

Susan Civale is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has research interests in women’s writing, life writing, and authorial and textual afterlives in the long nineteenth century and beyond.

Maria Luigia Di Nisio has completed a three-year PhD in Human Sciences at Gabriele D’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara. Her research focuses on late-Victorian women poets, exploring how they resisted and revised widespread ideas of femininity expressed in coeval scientific discourse. She is currently studying Victorian classicism from a feminist perspective and has recently published on Augusta Webster and Amy Levy. She also works as a translator and has published Italian translations of contemporary novels, biographies and essays.

Shannon Draucker is a PhD Candidate in English at Boston University, where she is also pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation project, “Sounding Bodies: Music and Physiology in Victorian Fiction,” explores literary responses to emerging scientific understandings of the physics and physiology of sound during the Victorian period. She was the 2017 winner of the Rosemary VanArsdel Prize from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals as well as the Honorable Mention recipient of the Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research from the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. Shannon’s archival research has been supported by a Huntington Library fellowship as well as a Boston University Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Victorian Periodicals Review, BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History, and the Eudora Welty Review.

Carol Erwin is an associate professor of English and Chair of the Languages and Literature Department at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico. Her current research examines how violence is gendered and includes examinations of the working classes in Punch illustrations and the novels of Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Anthony Trollope. She also researches trauma and gender in contemporary British novels.

Laura E. Franey is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at Millsaps College, in Jackson, MS. Her publications in Victorian studies include “‘Chartered Robbery’: Mobility, Somatic Terror, and the Critique of Marriage in Select Hardy Novels” (Victorians Institute Journal) and Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence (Palgrave MacMillan). Her scholarly edition of the first novel published in the United States by a person of Japanese descent, Yone Noguchi’s The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1902), was published by Temple University Press in 2007.

Lesley Goodman is an Assistant Professor of English at Albright College. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, women’s writing, narrative theory, readers and reading, and fictionality. Previous articles published in Narrative and The Journal of Popular Culture have focused on dynamics between readers, fictional texts, and authors.

Charlotte Mathieson is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey. Her publications include Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is Chair of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association UK & Ireland, co-convenes the Transport and Mobility History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and is co-editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture.

Caroline Reitz is an Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture (2004) and several articles on Victorian literature and culture, and contemporary detective fiction. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript about Charles Dickens's weekly journals.