Contributors
Natasha Booth-Johnson recently graduated from her AHRCC-funded PhD at the University of Birmingham in which she researched queer fiction by politically active female authors between 1880 and 1914. She has previously completed a project with the Birmingham Museums Trust, mapping and digitising their impressive queer collections. Her research interests are predominantly in gender and sexuality in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Emma Butler-Way is a Lecturer on Aberystwyth University’s Integrated Foundation Year. Her research focusses on the representation of the corset and the female body in Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction. She has been published in Victoriographies, Victorian Popular Fictions, and Wilkie Collins Journal, and her monograph is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.
Oscar Esposito holds an MA in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures from G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara. His research focuses on colonial narratives and contemporary women’s fiction and non-fiction.
Kaitlyn Fralick is a Ph.D. Candidate at Queen’s University. She is also a Research Assistant on Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry at the University of Victoria, where she received her M.A. Her research interests include the Victorian periodical press, print culture, popular fiction, and the digital humanities.
Anna-Maria Grill is a lecturer, research associate, and PhD candidate at the University of Regensburg. Her PhD project focuses on women medical figures and spaces in Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction, investigating the links between gender, space, and (narrative) processes of female medical identity construction post the Medical Registry Act.
Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature Emerita, TCU, specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture, periodicals, women’s and gender studies, and transnationality. Recent publications include Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (Cambridge University Press, 2022; pbk 2025) and a co-edited transatlantic anthology (2022).
Helena Ifill is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and specialises in Gothic and sensation fiction, as well as the interactions between Victorian popular fiction and the medical sciences, and notions of genre and literary categorisation. She is co-editor of Victorian Popular Fictions, co-series editor for Key Popular Women Writers and co-director of the Centre for the Novel.
Julia Kuehn is Chair Professor of Modern English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Her research interests are in critical theory, travel writing and the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century (often with a focus on women’s writing, Empire and popular fiction). She is a former President of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.
Megi Mecolli is a third-year PhD student in Literary Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research addresses the comparative imperial and geopolitical implications of the British Gothic. She holds both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jonathan Potter is a senior lecturer in English literature at Birmingham City University where he researches nineteenth-century periodicals, visual culture, and media technologies.
Anna Shane has recently completed her PhD on cognitive critical approaches to the late-Victorian gothic at the University of Exeter, focusing on the writings of Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee and Arthur Machen. She has recently had journal articles published on Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and C. R. Ashbee. She holds an MA from the University of Exeter and a BA from the University of Roehampton.
Diane Eveline van den Brink is a graduate student at the University of Groningen, specialising in English literature and culture. She researches nineteenth-century literature, focusing on Victorian poetics, sensation fiction, neo-Victorian literature and interdisciplinary approaches to law and literature.