Notes on Contributors
Samuel Caddick
is in the final stages of his PhD at Liverpool John Moores University. His research focuses on the deployment of Colonial Space as a method of managing Colonial Anxieties in Women-Authored Works of Raj Fiction.
Melissa Edmundson
is Lecturer of English at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA) and specializes in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Women Writers, with interests in Women’s Ghost Stories, the Supernatural, and Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction. She is the editor of two critical editions, Alice Perrin’s East of Suez (1901), published by Victorian Secrets Press in 2011, and a Broadview Edition of Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste (1851) published in 2016. Edmundson is author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Wales Press, 2013) and Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850–1930: Haunted Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her other work on British Women’s Anglo-Indian Fiction includes an article on mixed-race relationships in the novels of Alice Perrin for a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture focusing on Victorian India.
Christoph Ehland
is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn. His research focuses on Early Modern Literature and Culture, Romanticism, Middlebrow and Anglo-Indian Literature, Literary Culture and Spatial Practices as well as Mobility Studies.
Jana Gohrisch
is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on Black British Literature (1994) and one on nineteenth-century British Emotion Cultures (2005). In addition to co-editing several volumes, including Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013), she has written on Black British, Caribbean and African Literatures, on various aspects and periods of British Literature, on Popular Culture and Cultural Exchange. Her current book project contributes to Transatlantic Victorian Studies and deals with Post-Emancipation Constructions of Agency in texts about the British West Indies since the mid-nineteenth century.
completed her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) in 2016; she is currently an Affiliated Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Technical Editor at The Central Online Victorian Educator (COVE), a scholar-driven open-access platform that publishes peer-reviewed Victorian material. Her research areas include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Literature, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, and the History of Science. She has published articles in Configurations, Digital Humanities Quarterly, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920, The Journal of Victorian Culture, The Journal of the History of Biology, and Victorian Network. She directs and edits the digital archive VisualHaggard.org, a literary and art historical resource indexed, and peer reviewed by NINES, which contextualizes and improves access to the illustrations of Victorian novelist H. Rider Haggard.
Victoria Kuttainen
is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at James Cook University, Australia. Her research focuses on the convergence of Colonialism and Modernity, with a particular focus on the Literatures of Canada and Australia in this context. Her books include Unsettling Stories: Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite (2010) and The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity (with Susann Liebich and Sarah Galletly, 2018). She is also the convenor of a new international research group Planetary Material Modernisms.
Hannah Pardey
is a Research Assistant and doctoral candidate at the University of Hanover (Germany). She teaches British Literatures and Cultures from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century with a strong focus on Postcolonial Literatures in English and theories and methods of Literary Studies. Her master’s thesis “Historiographic Metafiction from the Nigerian Diaspora” has received the GAPS Graduate Award (complimentary prize) in 2016. Her dissertation project, “Postcolonial Middlebrow: The New Nigerian Novel,” concerns the conditions of production, distribution and reception of recent Nigerian Fictions.
Jochen Petzold
is Professor of British Studies at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He studied in Freiburg i.Br. (Germany) and Eugene, Oregon (USA). His PhD project focussed on contemporary South African Literature, his second book (Habilitation) examines speech situations in lyrical poetry. He was Marie Curie Fellow (ERC) at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the
Christoph Singer
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany. In 2012, he finished his dissertation on literary representations of shorelines as liminal spaces. In 2019, he completed a monograph on Post-(Modernist) Narratives of waiting. He also published anthologies on intersections of Middlebrow and Modernism, and the iconography of Dante & Milton.
Gesa Stedman
heads the Culture and Literature department at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests include the Victorian Discourse on Emotions, Early-Modern Cultural Exchange, Gender History, and the contemporary literary field in the UK. She has just completed two interdisciplinary edited collections: Contested Britain. Brexit, Austerity and Agency, with Marius Guderjan and Hugh Mackay (Bristol University Press), and Imagined Economies – Real Fictions. New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain, with Jessica Fischer (transcript).
Cornelia Wächter
is Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) of British Cultural Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The “Warder” in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (2015) and co-editor of Middlebrow and Gender, 1890–1945 (2016) and Complicity and the Politics of Representation (2019). She is currently working on a book project on Complicity, Queer Theory and Queer Modernism, as well as co-editing a collection of essays on Heritage, Space and Well-Being.
Robert Wirth
is a lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Paderborn, Germany. His primary research interests lie in the field of Scottish Literature, Politics and Culture – with a main focus on the utilisation of history and nostalgia in contemporary political campaigning. In addition to having published in journals including The Journal of Scottish Thought and Litteraria Pragensia, he is co-editor of Complicity and the Politics of Representation (Roman & Littlefield, 2019) and Timescapes of Waiting: Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral (Brill/Rodopi, 2019).