Molly Youngkin is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, where she specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and teaches courses in Victorian literature, as well as gender studies and narrative theory. Her first book, Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman’s Press on the Development of the Novel (Ohio … Continue reading Molly Youngkin

Anna Maria Jones is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, where she also directs What’s Next, a university-wide initiative that focuses on integrative learning to prepare undergraduates to meet their professional, civic, and educational goals. In the Department of English she teaches Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, literary theory, history of the novel, and … Continue reading Anna Maria Jones

This week, we are breaking with form and profiling both Susan Cook and Elizabeth Henley, who co-authored the interdisciplinary article, “Reading Communities in the Dickens Classroom” (Pedagogy April 2015). It’s a bit of a longer read than normal, so grab a cup of coffee and enjoy! Susan Cook is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern … Continue reading Susan Cook and Elizabeth Henley

Katherine Haldane Grenier is a Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at The Citadel in Charleston, SC.  She is the author of Tourism and Identity in Scotland: Creating Caledonia (Ashgate, 2005) as well as several articles on tourism in 19th century Scotland.  Her most recent article is “’Public Acts of Faith and Devotion’: Pilgrimages in … Continue reading Katherine Grenier

Mary A. Armstrong is Professor of English and Women’s & Gender Studies at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, where she also chairs the Women’s & Gender Studies Program. Her nineteenth-century research interests focus on representations of sexuality and pleasure in the Victorian novel and her work has appeared in venues such as Studies in the Novel, LIT: Literature, … Continue reading Mary Armstrong

Susan Matoff is an independent scholar with an MA in English Literature from the University of London.  After a varied non-academic career, Susan studied social history with the Open University and wrote research papers for the Bushey Museum in the United Kingdom.  Her biography, William Jerdan, 1782-1849: London Editor, Author and Critic was published by Sussex Academic … Continue reading Susan Matoff