In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

  • Biographies

Troy J. Bassett is a professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel (2020) and general editor of At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.

Mary Chapman is a doctoral student at the University of Leeds, jointly supervised in the Schools of English and History of Science. She is working on an interdisciplinary thesis on literature and gendered psycho-medical theory in the Victorian period. Her research investigates how different forms of writing shaped the development of ideas about the female mind. She has also recently curated a digital exhibition for the Countway Library at the Harvard Centre for the History of Medicine entitled "Jars of Art and Mystery: Pharmacists and Their Tools in the Mid-Nineteenth Century."

Jo Devereux is an assistant professor of English at Western University. She is the author of The Making of Women Artists in Victorian England (2016) and articles on nineteenth-century women's art education in Victorian Review and Victorian Periodicals Review. She is president of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, book reviews editor for English Studies in Canada, and assistant editor of "Gender Matters" for the Victorian Web.

Kaylee Henderson is a doctoral candidate in English at Texas Christian University. Her research centers on transatlantic women's networks, women's multigenre political writing, and verbal militancy in the long nineteenth century. She is author of the Emmeline Pankhurst entry in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing (2020). [End Page 465]

Jenna M. Herdman is a PhD candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research investigates the intersections between Victorian print culture and the digital humanities and includes the development of a digital edition of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.

Kristin E. Kondrlik is an assistant professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines intersections between the public, health and wellness movements, and the medical profession in print culture during the long nineteenth century. Her work has previously appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, ELT: English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920, and Poroi: Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, and she is co-editor of the collection Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture History and Practice: The V-Word, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

Julia McCord Chavez is an associate professor of English at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. She has published articles and book chapters on the pedagogical value of Victorian periodical reading, teaching the Victorian serial, Gothic influences in serial fiction by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, and the transatlantic publication of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.

Edward Molloy is a member of the Global Inquiries and Social Theory Research Group at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. He is also a lecturer at the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies, having recently completed a Busteed Postdoctoral Fellowship there. In 2017, he was awarded his PhD from Queen's University, Belfast, for his doctoral thesis entitled "Race, History, Nationality: An Intellectual History of the Young Ireland Movement 1842–52." Previously, he studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he received a distinction in the MA programme in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy. Before that he studied at the University of Glasgow.

Stephan Pigeon is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, where he is completing a dissertation on the work, law, and custom of circulating journalism in the British newspaper and periodical press. His published research appears in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Publishing History.

Meaghan Scott is a graduate student at the University of St. Thomas in the master's degree program in English. Her research interests include Victorian literature, periodicals, the novel, women's writing, Irish studies, and children's literature. Currently, she is pursuing PhD programs and scholarly publication opportunities. [End Page 466]

Deanna Stover is an assistant professor of English at Christopher Newport University. Her work has appeared in Women's Writing, Scholarly Editing, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly. [End Page 467]

...

pdf

Share