Issue 3.3 (Winter 2007)

Contributor Biographies

Daniel S. Brown is a graduate student at the University of Florida. He is interested in ways artists are depicted or depict themselves in Victorian literature and art and is currently working on an article on art, artists and masculinity in George DuMaurier’s Trilby. He is also interested more broadly in Victorian art, literature, masculinities, work and occupation.

Heather Brown is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland specializing in rhetoric and composition, with an emphasis in disability studies and the rhetoric of women’s health and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She holds a M.A.  from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Catherine A. Civello has published a book on the poetry and fiction of Stevie Smith, as well as articles on George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Joseph Conrad.

Sara Dustin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her research interests include 19th century British women writers and Victorian literature and culture, and she is currently working on a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies.

Melissa Dykes is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Her research interests include Victorian women travelers, the novel, postcolonial literature and travel literature.

Deborah M. Fratz recently defended her dissertation, “Disabled Subjects: Disability, Gender, and Ethical Agency in Victorian Realism,” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Her research combines Victorian studies, gender studies and disability studies, exploring the ethical capacities of the disabled subject as depicted in nineteenth-century literature. 

Alexis Harley lectures in autobiography with the English Program at La Trobe University, Australia. Her main research interests are Victorian autobiography and the conjunctions of literature with science, medicine, and philosophy.

Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker, a former student at the École Normale Supérieure ( Lyon, France), is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Paris XII. She is working under the supervision of Pr Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay on a study comparing the strategies of representation of deviant and malevolent females in Victorian sensation or gothic texts and in painting.

Diana Maltz is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches Victorian literature and cultural studies.  She has published essays on class and social reform in writings by George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, May Kendall, Vernon Lee, and ‘Michael Field.’  Her book, British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes: Beauty for the People, 1870-1900, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2006.  She is presently researching fiction and poetry by members of the Fabian Society and Fellowship of the New Life at the turn of the century.

Natalie A. Phillips is a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of interest include Victorian poetry, epistolary studies, and feminist and postcolonial theory. Phillips received her Masters in English from Georgetown and holds Bachelor degrees in English and Political Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has also taught courses at Trinity University in Washington, D.C..

Rachel Teukolsky is an Assistant Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Her teaching and research interests include Victorian non-fiction prose, visual studies, history of gender and sexuality, and travel literature. She is currently completing a book titled The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and the Making of Modern Aesthetics.

David Wayne Thomas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.   He is author of Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic (U of Pennsylvania, 2004).  His current research emphasizes British imperialism, especially the literature and politics of British India.  His essay “Liberal Legitimation and Communicative Action in British India: Reading Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters” is forthcoming in ELH.

Serena Trowbridge is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Central England. Her thesis is concerned with the influence of Gothic literature on the poetry of Christina Rossetti.  She is also the editor of the Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society.