Issue 16.1 (Spring 2020)

Contributor Biographies

Lindsey Carman Williams is pursuing a PhD in English literature at Washington State University. Her research interests include Victorian studies, the Female Gothic, and gender theory and criticism. She has taught first-year composition at the University of Central Florida and Washington State University and currently teaches Introduction to Women’s Studies at WSU.

Sam Holmqvist has a PhD in Comparative Literature. Holmqvist’s scholarship focuses on transgender history and the history of literature, and their recent publications include “Conditions of a Feminine Man: Rumours of a ‘Hermaphrodite’ Pastry-Cook in 19th Century Sweden” (Men and Masculinities 2019), and “A Man and a Perpetuum Mobile? Assigned Hermaphrodite Andreas Bruce’s Memoirs” (Gender and History forthcoming). Holmqvist currently holds a postdoc position in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Umeå University, Sweden.

Stephanie Palmer is a Senior Lecturer of English at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers (Routledge, 2020) and Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class (Lexington Books, 2009), and she is a co-editor of a special issue on transatlanticism’s influence on British literary study in Symbiosis (2017).

Alisha R. Walters is an Assistant Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work examines representations of race and racial mixture in the nineteenth century, and her research focuses on the tensions between scientific and affective, or emotional, ideas of race, particularly in depictions of people of color in Victorian fiction. She also writes about colonial and literary depictions of food, as she considers what Victorians wrote about food and the dynamic process of national identity formation. Her work has appeared in journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture and Women’s Writing.