Issue 18.1 (Spring 2022)

Contributor Biographies

Tamara L. Hunt is a professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana, where she also directs the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. A specialist in British history, she is the author of Defining John Bull: Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England (Ashgate 2003), editor/contributor to Women and the Colonial Gaze (NYU Press, 2002), and articles on caricature and publishing history. Her current research interests include eighteenth-century women and the London publishing trades, the New Harmony Gazette newspaper (1825-1828), and historical ghost stories.

Joey S. Kim (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. She researches global Anglophone literature with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature and aesthetics. Her forthcoming book, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh UP) highlights the racial and ethnic formation of the poetic subject in terms of Orientalist forms of cultural difference. She has published work in Essays in Romanticism, LA Review of Books, American Periodicals, The Keats-Shelley Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal, The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere.

Kellie Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literature Department at UC San Diego, specializing in English Literature. She is a part-time instructor in the English department at Palomar College and is also instructing writing composition courses through the Warren College Writing Program at UC San Diego. She is a graduate from San Diego State University and Syracuse University where she has specialized in British Literature and analysis of nineteenth century literary markets. Her current research interests include Neo-Victorian fiction, analysis of identity in Sci-fi and Cyberpunk texts, and the study of Popular Culture.

Reyam Kareem Rammahi is a DPhil in English candidate at the University of Oxford and an Oxford-Qatar Thatcher Graduate scholar. In 2020 she graduated with an MA in English and Comparative Literature from San Diego State University as a Fulbright scholar.

Sarah Rick is a doctoral candidate at Idaho State University specializing in nineteenth-century British Literature, scientific and religious discourse, animal studies, and the Victorian novel. Her dissertation employs a combination of animal studies and Critical Discourse Analysis to uncover how questions of human dominion, species hierarchy, and humaneness are addressed in evangelical, realist, and speculative Victorian fiction.