Issue 14.3 (Winter 2018)

Contributor Biographies

Dagni Bredesen is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Her research on Victorian widowhood and on nineteenth-century female detectives has been published as journal articles and in essay collections. She has edited a volume comprising two 1864 yellowbacks, the first works in British fiction to feature professional women detectives—The Female Detective and Revelations of a Lady Detective (Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 2010)—and is working on a monograph Detecting a Profession for Victorian Women. Her new edition of the penny dreadful Ruth the Betrayer or the Female Spy is being published by Valancourt Books and will be out in November 2018.

Jane J. Lee is an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Her research focuses primarily on women’s writing and Victorian reading practices.

Katherine Magyarody recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship on Victorian awkward adolescence at Texas A&M University, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She received her PhD in English at the University of Toronto in 2016 and is revising her thesis into a book-length study of social plots and relational representation in nineteenth-century British fiction. Her article “Odd Woman, Odd Girls,” on the rebellious femininities generated in the early Girl Guiding movement, received the ChLA’s 2018 Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Honor Award. Her work appears in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Marvels and Tales, and PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017.

Rose O’Malley recently completed her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on depictions of women in the Victorian novel and scientific discourse. Her dissertation explores the depiction of childless women in nineteenth-century British novels through a feminist evolutionary lens. She is an instructor at the College of Staten Island and the New York City College of Technology, and a Communication Fellow at Baruch College’s Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute.

Catherine Quirk is a PhD candidate at McGill University, specializing in the nineteenth-century theatre and the Victorian novel. Her dissertation addresses the intersection of nineteenth-century acting techniques with the self-help narrative in mid- to late-Victorian fiction. Previous work has appeared in Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens (2017).