Victorian Periodicals Review

Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, an Honorary Fellow there, and a Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies. Her research interests are nineteenth-century media history and print culture, gender, Walter Pater, and digital humanities. She is author of Print in Transition, Subjugated Knowledges, and many articles on the press. She coedited Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009, 2018) and The Lure of Illustration (2009) with Marysa Demoor; W. T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary (2012) with Ed King, Roger Luckhurst, and James Mussell; and The News of the World and the British Press (2016) with Mark Turner and Chandrika Kaul. She also co-curated the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (https://ncse.ac.uk). She is currently writing a biography of Walter Pater and editing a volume of his journalism.

Julie Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and affiliate in Film and Media Studies and Asian Studies. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003, 2012); edited Victorian Artists’ Autograph Replicas (2020), Transculturation in British Art (2012), Power and Resistance (2012), The Political Economy of Art (2008), Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema (2008), and Imperial Co-Histories (2003); and coedited Replication in the Long 19th Century (2018), Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality (2016), Encounters in the Victorian Press (2005), and Orientalism Transposed (1998, Routledge Revival Series, 2018).

Fionnuala Dillane is Professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Her research interests include nineteenth-century print media, affect, genre, and memory. She is author of Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (2013) and coeditor of five collections of essays, including The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (2016), with Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine; Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and Empire (2018), with Maria Stuart and Fionnghuala Sweeney; and Iceland–Ireland: Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery (2022), with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir. She is currently president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2022–24).

Jonathan Farina is the author of Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and at least a dozen articles about Victorian literature and criticism in journals including VPR. He is Associate Professor of English and chair of the Faculty Senate at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, and he serves as president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. He is presently writing a book about Victorian literary criticism as a repository of forms of thought and genres of intellectual work that have not been legible as intellectual work because they have not been institutionalized and taught. Rather than reducing Victorian critics to a genealogy of formalism or modern modes of interpretation, he examines how they exhibit less understood epistemic dispositions requisite to modern knowledge production, including awkwardness, coolness, and obviousness.

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her most recent books are Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (edited with Sarah Comyn, Manchester University Press, 2021), and Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction, and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Beth Gaskell is Curator of Newspaper Digitisation at the British Library. Her research interests include newspaper history, military-media relations, and the development of the professional periodical press. Her chapter “Bibliographic Issues: Titles, Numbers, Frequencies” featured in the Colby Prize-winning Researching the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Case Studies (Routledge, 2018).

Douglas A. Guerra is Associate Professor of Literature and Technology at SUNY Oswego. His first book, Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (UPenn, 2018), won the Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work.

Priti Joshi is Professor of English and Asian Studies at the University of Puget Sound. She has published Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India (SUNY Press, 2021), as well as articles on advertisements in Indian newspapers (Victorian Periodicals Review), the India exhibit at the Crystal Palace (Museum History Journal), scissors-and-paste in Indian newspapers (Amodern), and Dickens, the Brontës, Frances Trollope, Henry Mayhew, Edwin Chadwick, and George Eliot.

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