Anne Sullivan is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the University of California, Riverside, where she specializes in researching and teaching Victorian literature and media history. Her dissertation, “On Fire: Industrialization, Media Technologies, and the Imagination, 1800-1900,” addresses a gap in literary and media scholarship by recovering the material and affective history of fire as … Continue reading Anne Sullivan
Author: Kate Oestreich
My name is Dr. Kate Faber Oestreich (pronounced A-Strike). I am a proud Buckeye, having earned three degrees from The Ohio State University (BA, MA, PhD). I moved to South Carolina eleven years ago to to teach at Coastal Carolina University, where I am Associate Professor of Literature, Writing, and New Media. Dr. Jennifer Camden and I have co-authored a book entitled, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). My scholarship and scholarly reviews have appeared in the Victorians Institute Journal, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, The CEA Critic, ARIEL, and the edited collection Straight Writ Queer. I serve on the Board and the Executive Committee of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, where I am also Co-Director of Electronic Communications and Co-Chair of the Web and Publicity committee. My favorite book of all time is Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, which ignited my love for all things Nineteenth Century.
Kyla Schuller
Kyla Schuller is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she investigates the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and the sciences. Her book The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Duke University Press, 2018) exposes sentimentalism as a technology of population management. Her work has been … Continue reading Kyla Schuller
Ruth M. McAdams
Ruth M. McAdams is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Skidmore College, where she studies in nineteenth-century British literature and teaches a broad range of courses in literature and writing. Her book project analyzes connections between Victorian literature and philosophy of history, looking in particularly at the way the Victorians theorize the … Continue reading Ruth M. McAdams
Robert D. Aguirre
Robert D. Aguirre is Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he also serves as associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Informal Empire: Mexico and Central American in Victorian Culture (2005); Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination (2017); and many articles on nineteenth-century literature and … Continue reading Robert D. Aguirre
Clayton Tarr
Clayton Tarr teaches at Michigan State University, where he specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. His book, Gothic Stories within Stories: Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790–1900 (2017), suggests that the Gothic novel took shape as a mode that allowed readers to experience a deep level of reality that was unavailable in the realist … Continue reading Clayton Tarr
Keridiana (Kery) Chez
Keridiana (Kery) Chez is Assistant Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, where she teaches first year writing, children’s literature, and animals in literature. Her first book, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (2017), explores how the bourgeoisie on both sides of the … Continue reading Keridiana (Kery) Chez