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James Eli Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints (1995) and A History of Victorian Literature (2009).

Tanya Agathocleous is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY, and author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World (Cambridge, 2011).

Mark Allison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Sarah Allison is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans and the author of Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Johns Hopkins, 2018).

Stephen Arata is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Virginia.

Zarena Aslami is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University.

Elaine Auyoung is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota and author of When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind, forthcoming from Oxford.

Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor (English) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire (2010) and coeditor of New Routes in Diaspora Studies (2012).

Ayelet Ben-Yishai teaches Victorian and postcolonial literature in the English Department at the University of Haifa.

Susan David Bernstein recently moved from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now Research Professor of English at Boston University.

Kirstie Blair is Chair in English and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Ilana M. Blumberg is Senior Lecturer in English at Bar Ilan University and author of Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Ohio State, 2013).

Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Boston College Professor Emerita of English, is the author of books on George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Victorian industrial novels.

Alison Booth, Professor of English and Academic Director of the Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia, specializing in feminist reception history, women's biography, and digital humanities, is the author of three books, most recently Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries.

Karen Bourrier is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel (Michigan, 2015).

Patrick Brantlinger, James Rudy Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has published several books and many articles on race and racism in the British Empire.

Aviva Briefel is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College; she is currently working on a book about the material culture of Victorian spiritualism.

Joseph Bristow is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Trev Broughton teaches English and Related Literature at the University of York, U. K. Her research is mainly on nineteenth-century life writing.

Kelly P. Bushnell received her PhD in Victorian Literature from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is at work on a monograph about nonhuman animals and material culture in Victorian maritime literature.

Alison Byerly, President and Professor of English at Lafayette College, is the author of Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism (2013).

Mary Wilson Carpenter is Professor Emerita from Queen's University, Kingston, ON, and is currently writing a book on Margaret Mathewson, the author of a memoir about being operated on by Joseph Lister in 1877.

Tina Young Choi, Associate Professor of English at York University and author of Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain (2016), is currently completing a book-length manuscript on contingency in nineteenth-century literary and scientific narratives.

Elisha Cohn is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University and author of Still Life: Suspended Development in the English Novel (Oxford, 2016).

David Sweeney Coombs is Assistant Professor at Clemson University and is currently completing a book on the relationship between descriptive and empirical knowledge in Victorian literature and science.

Jesse Cordes Selbin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ellen Crowell is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where she teaches courses in fin-de-siècle British literature and culture.

Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin.

Duc Dau is the author of Touching God: Hopkins and Love and she teaches at the University of Western Australia.

Dennis Denisoff is Ida Barnard McFarlin Chair of English at the University of Tulsa, author of Aestheticism and Sexual Parody (2001) and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film (2004), and editor of Arthur Machen's Decadent and Occult Writings (2018), among other works.

Ian Duncan, Florence Green Bixby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is completing a book on the novel and human nature in the age of realism.

Andrew Elfenbein is Chair and Professor of English at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities; his most recent book, The Gist of Reading, appeared in 2018.

Deborah Epstein Nord is Professor of English at Princeton University and author of The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985); Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City (1995); Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807–1930 (2006); and, with Maria DiBattista, At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present (2017).

Lauren Eriks Cline is a Frederick Donald Sober postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, where she recently completed a dissertation on narrative accounts of spectatorship in nineteenth-century memoirs, letters, reviews, and novels.

Jonathan Farina is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University and author of Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2017).

Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California, and her most recent book is Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination (Oxford, 2017).

Ryan D. Fong is Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College, where he is also the current Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program.

Kathleen Frederickson is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and author of The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance.

Melissa Free, Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University, is completing a book manuscript on gender, genre, and race in British South African literature from the First Boer War to the First World War.

Zach Fruit is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Fyfe is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University.

Regenia Gagnier is the Established Chair in English Language and Literature and Senior Research Fellow at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter; President of the British Association for Victorian Studies 2009–12; editor with Laura Doyle of the Global Circulation Project; and the author of many books and articles in Victorian Studies.

Jill Galvan is the author of The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies 1859–1919 (2010) and coeditor of Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2018), and is currently at work on a project entitled After Romance: Alienated Marriage and Modern Character Realism.

Amanpal Garcha’s recent publications include “Imagining a Professional Future: Cognitive Criticism in Our Era of Information Work” in symplokē and “Forgetting Thackeray and Unmaking Careers” in Victorian Literature and Culture.

Debra Gettelman is Associate Professor in the English Department at the College of the Holy Cross.

Will Glovinsky is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where his dissertation focuses on empire, realism, and the management of affect in the nineteenth-century British novel.

Joshua Gooch is Assistant Professor of English at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York, and author of The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy (Palgrave, 2015).

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of books including The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty and Transnational Experience now out in paperback from Oxford. Her new project is on the long afterlives of nineteenth-century genres.

Laura Green is Professor of English and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and the author of Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature (2001) and Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga (2012).

Melissa Valiska Gregory is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toledo specializing in nineteenth-century British literature.

Rae Greiner is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University and coeditor of Victorian Studies.

Devin Griffiths is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and author of The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins (Johns Hopkins, 2016) and a forthcoming study of formalism and ecological theory.

Marah Gubar, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, is the author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature (Oxford, 2009), as well as a series of essays about children and Anglo-American theater, from nineteenth-century all-child productions to contemporary child-centered musicals.

Taryn Hakala teaches literature and linguistics at the University of California, Merced.

Heidi Hakimi-Hood is a doctoral candidate in English at Texas Christian University writing a dissertation on rural cosmopolitanism in writings of the long nineteenth-century.

Lucy Hartley, Professor of English at the University of Michigan, is the author of Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2001/2006) and Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life (2017), and the editor of The History of British Women's Writing, 1830–1880 (2018).

Anna Henchman is Associate Professor at Boston University, and her new book is on tiny creatures and the boundaries of being in the nineteenth-century British imagination.

Nathan K. Hensley, Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University, is author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty and coeditor of Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire.

Molly Clark Hillard is Associate Professor of Victorian literature at Seattle University, and the author of Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians (Ohio State, 2014).

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, is the author most recently of The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry (2018), coeditor with Julie Codell of Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century (2018), and coeditor with Sarah Robbins of Teaching Transatlanticism.

Audrey Jaffe is Professor of English at the University of Toronto; her most recent book is The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real: Conventions and Ideology (2016).

Jacob Jewusiak is Lecturer in English at Newcastle University, where he specializes in Victorian literature and age studies.

Edward Jones-Imhotep is author of The Unreliable Nation (MIT, 2017) and Associate Professor of History at York University, where his current research examines how observers from the late-eighteenth to the mid-tweintieth centuries understood technological failures as a problem of the self.

Matthew Kaiser is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of California, Merced; author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford); and translator or editor of eight books, including the forthcoming A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire, 1800–1920 (Bloomsbury).

Helen Kingstone is Lecturer in English Literature (Victorian Studies) at the University of Glasgow. Her recent work includes Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Ivan Kreilkamp is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University; his book Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2018.

Deanna K. Kreisel is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia; she is currently working on a monograph on sustainability and utopia in Victorian literature and culture.

John Kucich, who is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, has authored many books and articles on Victorian literature and culture.

Naomi Levine is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University; she works on Victorian poetics and intellectual history.

Tricia Lootens, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia, is the author of Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres (Princeton, 2017), as well as coeditor, with Paula Krebs, of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (Longman, 2011), and author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization (Virginia, 1996).

Allen MacDuffie is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination, was published by Cambridge in 2014.

Kristin Mahoney is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Gender in a Global Context at Michigan State University and the author of Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence (Cambridge, 2015).

Meredith Martin teaches poetry and poetics of the Victorian and Modern eras at Princeton University.

Ruth M. McAdams is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College, where she teaches literature and writing.

Maia McAleavey, Associate Professor in the English Department at Boston College, is the author of The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel (Cambridge, 2015).

Richard Menke, Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia, is the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems and is completing a book about the late-Victorian invention of media.

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Slow Print (2013) and Framed (2008); her current project is titled “Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion, 1830–1930.”

Grace Moore is Senior Lecturer in Victorian studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she works on Dickens, Trollope, and other aspects of nineteenth-century culture.

Benjamin Morgan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago and author of The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature (Chicago, 2017).

Nasser Mufti is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Northwestern, 2017).

Mary L. Mullen is Assistant Professor of English and member of the Irish Studies faculty at Villanova University.

Adam Nemmers is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

Laura Otis is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English at Emory University.

Cornelia Pearsall, Professor of English at Smith College and author of Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue (Oxford, 2008), is completing a book on war poetry from the Crimean to the Cold Wars (Tennyson to Plath) and another on late-Victorian poetry and imperial expansion.

John Plotz is Professor of English at Brandeis University; his most recent book is Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens (Princeton, 2017).

Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah and the author of The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (Pennsylvania, 2013).

Jonathan Potter’s first book, Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

Kent Puckett is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2008), War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939–1945 (2017), and Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (2016).

Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature, has published nine academic books, including her most recent monograph, Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching, and an essay collection co-edited with her Texas Christian University English Department colleague, Linda Hughes, on Teaching Transatlanticism.

Jason R. Rudy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author most recently of Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies (Johns Hopkins, 2017).

Zachary Samalin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago; his research focuses on the literature and culture of the Victorian period, the history of critical theory and psychoanalysis, as well as affect theory and the history of emotions.

Julia F. Saville teaches English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is author of A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000) and Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic (2017).

Talia Schaffer is Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the author of Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction (2016); Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2011); and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (2001).

Hilary M. Schor is the author of books on Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and curiosity, women, and the law, as well as numerous articles on Victorian fiction, contemporary literature, and film.

Andrea Selleri is working on his first book, The Mind in the Work: The Author in Victorian Literary Culture.

Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and Chair at Stern College, Yeshiva University, has a book in progress on Victorian self-illustrated texts.

Anne Stiles is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Medical Humanities at Saint Louis University.

Judith Stoddart is a faculty member in English and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University.

Andrew Taylor, Senior Lecturer and current Head of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, is the author of Henry James and the Father Question, Thinking America, and Thomas Pynchon, as well as a number of edited collections and essays.

Jesse Oak Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf (2016), and coeditor, with Tobias Menely, of Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times (2017).

Rachel Teukolsky is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, and the author of The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics (2009).

Marlene Tromp is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Campus Provost, and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Herbert F. Tucker, who holds the John C. Coleman Chair in English at the University of Virginia, is the author of several books and numerous articles dealing chiefly with nineteenth-century British poetry.

Charlie Tyson is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard University.

Robyn Warhol is Arts and Sciences Professor and Chair of English at The Ohio State University; her recent books include Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor (2015), coauthored with Helena Michie; and Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (2015), coedited with Susan S. Lanser.

Tim Watson is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Miami and author of Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780–1870 (Cambridge, 2008) and Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World (Oxford, 2018).

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (William E. “Bud” Davis Alumni Professor, Department of English, Louisiana State University) is coeditor of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film and has published widely in Victorian literature and culture, including Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture (1999) and Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education (2007).

Carolyn Williams, Professor of English at Rutgers University (New Brunswick), is writing a book about nineteenth-century English melodrama, with a focus on genre form.

Martin Willis is Professor of English at Cardiff University, editor of the Journal of Literature and Science, and co-director of the Cardiff ScienceHumanities Initiative.

Sarah Winter, Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut, is the author of The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens (2011).

Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, author of the book Imperial Media (2014), and editor of a new collection of Arthur Machen's fiction for Oxford World's Classics (2018).

Sue Zemka is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2011).

Susan Zieger is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of California, Riverside; her most recent book is The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century.