Issue 2.3 (Winter 2006)

Contributor Biographies

Gordon Bigelow is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College and the author of Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2003). His current projects include a co-edited volume with John Jordon on approaches to teaching Bleak House, and work on modern English, Irish, and postcolonial discourses of political economy. His articles and reviews have appeared in Harper's Magazine and in journals such as ELH, Victorian Studies, and Research in African Literatures.

Rita Bode teaches in the Department of English Literature, Trent University, Oshawa campus, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include both British and American writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and her work has appeared in Conradiana, CreArta, ESQ, and SEL, among others.

Robin Chamberlain is a doctoral student at McMaster University, where she is working on Victorian literary representations of masochism. She holds an M.A. from McMaster as well, for which she completed a thesis on the gendering of domination in the novels of Henry James.

Casey Cothran is an adjunct professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. Her publications focus on New Woman writers as well as the presentation of disability in the works of Victorian detective novelist Wilkie Collins.

Kathryn Crowther is a PhD Candidate at Emory University and has just completed an Andrew W. Mellon Teaching Fellowship at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. Her dissertation explores concerns of authorship, embodiment, and historical representation in the Victorian novel. Her research interests include Victorian publishing history, theorizations of gender and the body, 19th century literary realism, and the neo-Victorian novel.

Eric Eisner is an assistant professor of English at George Mason University. He is currently completing a book on literary celebrity and lyric intimacy in nineteenth-century poetry.

David Hennessee is a Lecturer in English at California Polytechnic State University, where he teaches 18th, 19th, and 20th century British literature. His work has been published in Dickens Studies Annual and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and he is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Male Masochistic Fantasy in Victorian Literature and Culture.

Brandon Jernigan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include popular genres, colonial violence, and transportation during the British “New Imperialism.”

Adeline Johns-Putra is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Exeter, and director of the English programme at the university’s Cornwall Campus. She is the author of Heroes and Housewives: Women’s Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age, 1770-1835 (Peter Lang, 2001) and The History of the Epic (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006). This essay is part of a projected book-length study of representations of Islam in women’s poetry of the Romantic age.

Anna Marutollo is a graduate student at McGill University, specializing in Victorian literature.She is particularly interested in exploring how women negotiate both literal and psychological space in Gothic and sensation novels. Other publications include “The Many Faces of Frances,” an analysis of passion and power-play in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Frances’ and The Professor, which will appear in the Bronte Studies journal this fall. Awards include both a Middlebury Grant (2005) and The Mina Shaughnessy Scholarship at Middlebury College (2006).

Daniel Wong is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently interested in Victorian religion and literature, and their intersections with nineteenth-century nationalism and internationalism.