Issue 15.2 (Summer 2019)

Contributor Biographies

Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830–70 (Ashgate, 2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914 (Delaware UP, 2011). She co-edited The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers and Researching the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Case Studies (Routledge, 2016 & 2017), with Andrew King and John Morton. Her third essay collection, Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s, co-edited with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers, is forthcoming from Edinburgh UP in 2019.

Kathryn Ledbetter is Professor of English at Texas State University. She is author of Victorian Needlework (2012); British Victorian Women’s Periodicals: Civilization, Beauty, and Poetry (2009); Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (2007); “Colour’d Shadows”: Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (with Terence Hoagwood, 2005). Recent articles on women’s periodicals appear in the Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and in forthcoming volumes of the Edinburgh History of Women’s Print Media 1830-1900, Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s, and the Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press.

Robyn Miller graduated with her PhD from Auburn University in the spring of 2018. She currently works as an Avian Care Specialist at the American Eagle Foundation, where she continues her study of and participation in avian conservation.

Sarah Parker is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 (Routledge, 2013) and articles and chapters on Olive Custance, Constance Naden, Amy Levy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Djuna Barnes, and Sarah Waters. A co-edited collection, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns (with Ana Parejo Vadillo) is forthcoming from Ohio University Press in 2019.

Liora Selinger is a PhD Candidate in English at Princeton University. Her research focuses on literature for and about children in the British Romantic Period. She explores depictions of conversations between adults and children, and examines how aesthetic forms function pedagogically for children in the face of difficult explanations.

Madeleine C. Seys is a Visiting Research Fellow, lecturer, and tutor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The University of Adelaide, Australia. Her book Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads was published by Routledge in 2018. Madeleine’s research interests include: Victorian literary and fashion cultures, dress history, gender, sexuality, art history and Pacific studies. Her publications reflect these interests and their intersections, in the forms of scholarly publications, academic journalism, and creative writing. Madeleine also works as a consulting fashion historian, curator and conservator, and is Social Media Manager for the Australasian Victorian Studies and Mary Elizabeth Braddon Association.