Issue 20.1 (Spring 2024)

Contributor Biographies

Natasha Booth-Johnson is a third year AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She is researching queer fiction by politically active female authors between 1882 and 1914 and her interests lie in prose fiction relating to unconventional practices and marginalized communities. She has been the editor in chief of the online resource Queer Nineteen since July 2022 and in August 2023 hosted the platform’s first online international symposium. In Autumn 2023, she undertook a placement project mapping queerness across the extensive collections at the Birmingham Museums Trust.

Chandler Mordecai is a PhD Candidate at the University of Florida. Her research and teaching interests focus on literature from the Victorian Era, gender, trauma, and the Gothic. She also studies multimodal pedagogy, digital humanities, and the intersections of community activism and digital rhetoric. Chandler’s work has been published in the journals Computers and Composition and ImageText.

Samantha Trzinski is a PhD Candidate at the Ohio State University where she studies nineteenth-century British literature, children’s books, and book history. Her dissertation project considers how Romantic-era women writers use melancholy as a pedagogical tool in their writings for a female readership to prepare them for the disappointments and sorrows of patriarchal subjugation.