Issue 17.3 (Winter 2021)

Contributor Biographies

Susan E. Cook is an Associate Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, where she also directs the campus General Education program. She has published articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century visual culture and narrative, true crime, geography, kink, and pedagogy. Her book, Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century, was published by SUNY Press in 2019.

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her latest books are Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (with Lara Atkin et al., 2019) and Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (ed. with Sarah Comyn, 2021). A monograph, Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction, and Feeling in Britain, 1790-1850, is forthcoming in 2021/22. Prof. Fermanis is currently the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project ‘SouthHem’ and is working on a book entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820-1890.

Roland Paul is a Professor Emeritus of English Literatures at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His main field of research is British working-class literature. He has previously co-edited a collection of critical perspectives on Pat Barker. Paul's most recent articles are on Buchi Emecheta, Agnes Owens, Tillie Olsen, Lee Hall, Victor Serge and Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Amy Vander Heiden holds a master’s degree in English literature from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, where she focused on theories of the body and women’s writing from the long nineteenth century. Her current research focuses on nonsense in Jane Austen’s juvenilia. She teaches high school English in Minnesota.

Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her books include The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture (2020), Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (2016), Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction (2010), and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004). She has also edited collections on Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (2014), Victorian Settler Narratives (2011), and Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009).