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1 Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Modernism, Technology and the Body (1998), Haunted Hardy (2000), Modernism: A Cultural History (2005), and The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology and Pain in American Literature (2012). David Atkinson is the editor of Folk Music Journal, author of The English Traditional Ballad: Theory, Method, and Practice (2002), and coeditor of Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation (2004). He has published widely on Anglo-Scottish ballads and is currently co-editing a collection of essays on ballads and street literature, and is engaged in a long-term project to prepare a critical edition of the J. M. Carpenter folklore collection. His research interests are in the areas of ballad theory, textual editing, printed ballads, and folk song revivals. He is Executive Secretary of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (International Ballad Commission). Kostas Boyiopoulos is an Associate Tutor in English at Durham University. He specialises in the fin-de-siècle. He has published articles on Arthur Machen, Wilde, and C. P. Cavafy. He is currently developing a monograph on the Decadent poetry of the 1890s and is also coediting a collection of essays titled Decadent Romanticism. Rebecca Brown is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She teaches American Gothic literature, children s literature, twentieth-century British literature, and Victorian literature. Her work has appeared in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.Shealsocontributes film reviews and articles to Cinespect. Her most recent writings focus on ghosts in juvenile fiction and the adaptation of literary and cinematic monsters in children s picture books. When she is not teaching, she can typically be found hunched over her computer researching literary and Victoriographies 3.1 (2013): DOI: /vic # Edinburgh University Press

2 cinematic manifestations of the zombie or spinning around a dance floor attempting to master the Lindy-Hop and Charleston. Jonathan Buckmaster is a postgraduate research student with the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London; his PhD thesis focuses on the figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles Dickens. He has published two articles on Charles Dickens and The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Roger Ebbatson is Honorary Research Professor in English at Lancaster University. His publications include Heidegger s Bicycle (Sussex, 2006) and An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, (Ashgate, 2005). Gabriella Ekman is a PhD Candidate in English Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation, Reading Tennyson in Sierra Leone: The Portable Poetics of Empire, , investigates poetry s travels between Great Britain and two of its colonies: Sierra Leone and West Bengal in India. Giuseppina Di Gregorio holds a PhD in English and Anglo- American studies from the University of Catania, Italy. Her doctoral thesis about historical characters in Neo-Victorian novels is forthcoming from Peter Lang. In 2005 she earned a BA in foreign languages and literatures with a thesis on T. Hardy and D. H. Lawrence, Metaphysics and Aesthetics of D. H. Lawrence in The Study of Thomas Hardy, and in 2007 she received an MA with a thesis on E. St Aubyn, The Inheritance of the Loss or the Loss of Inheritance: Mother s Milk by E. St Aubyn. Her research interests include Victorian and Neo-Victorian studies, translation studies and adaptation studies. An annotator for Routledge ABES, she regularly contributes to the Victorian Bibliography, Indiana University. She has worked for five years as a translator and interpreter; currently, she is a high school teacher of English language and literature. Leeann Hunter is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Washington State University. Her research focuses on economics, gender, and ruin in Victorian literature. Her article on Communities Built from Ruin: Social Economics in Victorian Narratives of Bankruptcy appears in a recent issue of Women Studies Quarterly. In addition, Hunter is a digital humanist specializing in interactive pedagogy and teaches courses in creativity, collaboration, and consumer culture. Siv Jansson completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London and spent twelve years teaching in various universities in London before relocating to New Zealand in Currently she teaches English and Cultural Studies/Sociology at the University of 115

3 Victoriographies Auckland. Her research interests include nineteenth-century fiction and non-fiction, popular culture, and the cultural, social and literary history of weddings and funerals. Hannah Lewis-Bill is a third year PhD student at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on Dickens and the inclusion of transnational commodities in his novels such as tea, chinaware and fabrics from China and India. Her work reflects upon the ways in which trade, statistics and commerce represent a Dickensian consciousness of the world beyond Britain that is reflexive in nature. Hannah s wider research interests lie in the mid-nineteenth-century Victorian novel, serialisation and ideas about globalisation in the nineteenth century. Sara Lyons recently received her PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. Her thesis examined the relationship between the emergence of literary aestheticism and contests over the status and meaning of religious doubt and the possibility of secularization in late Victorian Britain. Her essay on the poet and critic Mathilde Blind appears in the collection Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change, eds. Adrienne Gavin and Carolyn Oulton (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She also has an essay in the forthcoming collection Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate, eds. Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (Manchester: Manchester University Press, February 2013). Churnjeet Mahn is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her work covers Victorian travel writing about Greece and formulations of transnational identities. Her monograph, Travels in the Palimpsest: British Women s Writing about Greece, , will be published by Ashgate in late Molly O Donnell is a PhD candidate and instructor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a former academic editor, associate faculty at the Notre Dame of Maryland University, and continues to freelance as an A&E journalist. From 2002 until 2009, Anthony Patterson worked at Ave Maria University in Nicaragua where he taught British, European and World Literature. Since returning to England, he has worked as a research assistant at Durham University, a visiting lecturer at Northumbria University and an academic tutor at Sunderland University. He has published on George Moore, George Gissing and H. G. Wells. He is currently working towards the publication of his thesis on late- Victorian and Edwardian censorship. Sarah Pawlak earned a Master s in English, with an emphasis in drama and twentieth-century British literature, at Cal Poly Pomona before coming to UNLV, where she is now pursuing her doctoral 116

4 studies. Her research interests include: Victorian, Neo-Victorian, and contemporary British literature; popular culture, film, and video games; as well as Feminist, Queer, and Post-Colonial Theories. In addition to her academic writing, she also dabbles in fiction, finding the critical study of literature in its most inclusive definition key to crafting compelling stories. Jude Piesse recently passed her AHRC-funded PhD thesis on British Settler Emigration in Print: Mainstream Models and Counter-Currents, for examination at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include literature and migration, Victorian print culture, Charles Dickens, and the global circulation of nineteenth-century texts. In 2012 she was awarded the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals VanArsdel Prize for an article on emigration-themed Christmas stories, now forthcoming in the Spring 2013 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. She was also recently awarded an AHRC-funded British Research Council Fellowship to spend three months working at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington. Her next project will focus on resituating the popular literary culture of nineteenth-century Westward-bound migration across America in a critically current transnational comparative framework. Jude currently teaches at the University of Exeter and the Open University. Emily Scott is a third-year doctoral candidate at the University of Portsmouth. Her dissertation examines representations of trauma within neo-victorian literature and is funded by Portsmouth University s Centre for Studies in Literature. Christopher Stokes is a lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. His publications include Coleridge, Language and the Sublime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Jo Taylor is a second-year AHRC-funded PhD student at Keele University. Her thesis examines the literary responses of Samuel Taylor Coleridge s children and, in particular, grandchildren to the Romantic legacy suggested by their surname. She is the holder of an AHRC Collaborative Skills Development Award, which will explore practical methods of creating and sustaining public engagement opportunities for postgraduate and early career Humanities researchers. Kate Watson studied English Literature at Cardiff University (BA Hons., MA, PhD). She has previously taught at Cardiff University and currently teaches English Literature ( Introduction to the Victorian Novel and Twentieth-Century British and American Fiction ) at the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning (Cardiff University). Her research interests include crime fiction, Victorian literature, Australian 117

5 Victoriographies literature, American literature, gender and women s studies, gothic and sensation fiction, critical theory, and print culture. Her most recent publications include Engendering Violence: Textual and Sexual Torture in Val McDermid s The Mermaids Singing (in Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and Deviance, ed. Christiana Gregoriou, Palgrave, 2012) and a monograph published with McFarland & Co: Women Writing Crime Fiction, : Fourteen American, British and Australian Authors (2012). 118