Rebecca Richardson is an Advanced Lecturer in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric. She also enjoys teaching courses on nineteenth-century novels through Stanford Continuing Studies. Her book Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature (JHUP, 2021) explores how self-help narratives centering a hardworking individual provided a moralized cover story for ambition in the Victorian era – … Continue reading Becky Richardson

“On the Importance of Studying the Past—and How to Make an Onion Pie” Terry F. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto and the recipient of the 2024 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) Article Prize for “Deaf Education and the Rise of English Melodrama,” Essays in Romanticism 29.1 (April 2022): 1-31—an … Continue reading Terry F. Robinson

Mark Alan Mattes is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville. He is the editor of Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023), and he is currently working on a book about Indigenous and settler memory in the Ohio Valley. He recently won the NCSA’s 2024 BIPOC Scholars Prize for his … Continue reading Mark Alan Mattes

Laura Golobish is Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History in the School of Art at Ball State University. They also serve as the Digital Content Coordinator for the Association of Print Scholars, where they connect printmakers, print specialists, and print enthusiasts to some of the latest in print-centric opportunities and news. Their scholarly interests center … Continue reading Laura Golobish

Jeannette Acevedo Rivera holds a PhD in French and Spanish nineteenth-century literature from Duke University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach. Her comparative research examines intersections among gender, material culture, fashion, and the practice of writing and collecting. She is currently working on her book manuscript, which … Continue reading Jeannette Acevedo Rivera

Kathryn Hughes is Professor Emerita of Life Writing at the University of East Anglia.  An historian by training, since leaving Oxford she has written five books on Victorian England.  These include The Victorian Governess, biographies of George Eliot and Mrs Beeton and a study of the relationship between biography and body parts, Victorians Undone.  Her … Continue reading Kathryn Hughes