Contributors
Adam Baldwin, following his PhD with the Open University awarded August 2024, is currently a visiting fellow at the OU as part of preparing for publication the book version of his thesis on late-nineteenth-century writer George Griffith. His research focuses on British speculative fiction from the late nineteenth century.
Emma Butler-Way is a Lecturer on Aberystwyth University’s Integrated Foundation Year Programme. She is currently researching representations of corsets and the female body in Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction. She has been published in Victoriographies, VPFJ, and Wilkie Collins Journal, and is currently under contract with Bloomsbury Academic for her monograph.
Christine Choi is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, where she teaches first-year writing and courses in Women’s and Gender Studies. A specialist in Victorian literature, her research explores noncanonical women novelists, sensation fiction, and feminist analyses of gender and marriage in the Victorian novel.
Bethany Dahlstrom is an independent scholar based in Lancaster, England. She recently completed a PhD at the University of Lancaster. Her current research examines the connection between women and birds in Victorian literature. Some of her specific research interests encompass studies in ecocriticism, gender, and domesticity.
Alessandra Di Pietro received her doctorate in English and American Literature from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is currently working on a new doctoral project at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, which focuses on representations of African cosmologies in contemporary African and Caribbean Literatures.
G. V. Geer holds a PhD in English and an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut, as well as an MA in English from the University of Nebraska. Dr. Geer’s recently-completed dissertation focuses on self-harm, self-sacrifice, and voluntary death in popular vampire literature.
Thomas Kullmann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has published widely on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture, nineteenth-century English novels and English children’s and young adults’ fiction. His main current research project is the compilation of a bibliography of books about India in English.
Emilie Laurent is a PhD student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). Specialising in the Gothic literature of the Victorian era, she previously worked on the Gothic formula of entrapment in Agatha Christie’s works. Her doctoral thesis analyses Vernon Lee’s rewriting of the Gothic genre from a gendered and intermedial perspective.
Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Co-Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), teaching across Creative and Professional Writing and English. She is Co-Lead for Kent Maps Online in collaboration with JSTOR Labs and ‘Let’s do the time walk again!: Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage’ (funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund).
Joseph Sample is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. His research focuses on China in the West in the nineteenth century with particular emphasis on comic writings and journalism.