Charlotte Boyce
is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, England, UK. Her research centres on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture, with a specific focus on food, hunger and practices of consumption, and on the history of celebrity. She has co-authored monographs on A History of Food in Literature from the Fourteenth Century to the Present (Routledge, 2017) and Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and published articles in collections and journals including Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Neo-Victorian Studies and The Yearbook of English Studies.
Matthew Crofts
was awarded his doctorate at the University of Hull, England, UK, for his research on the importance of tyranny to the Gothic mode, utilising a range of Gothic novels and historical eras. His previous publications include an article on MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman for Peer English (10, 2015), an article in the special ‘Alternative Dickens’ issue of Victoriographies (8:1, 2018), a chapter on Dracula’s multimedia legacy in the edited collection Gothic Afterlives (Lexington Books, 2019), and a joint-authored chapter on Gothic rats in the edited collection Gothic Animals (Palgrave, 2020).
Helen Davies
is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton, England, U.K., with research interests in gender, sexuality, and disability in neo-Victorian literature and culture. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She is currently working on two monograph projects: Reading Down Syndrome, and Re-reading the Victorian Freak Show: Texts, Contexts, Politics.
Jeanne Ellis
lectures in English Literature at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research focuses on readings and cultural reconfigurations of the nineteenth century from and about former British settler colonial contexts, an example of which is her chapter on the South African artist Leora Farber in the edited
Roberta Gefter Wondrich
is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Trieste, Italy. She is Managing Editor of Prospero, Rivista di letterature e culture straniere – A Journal of foreign literatures and cultures – published by the University of Trieste Press. She specialises in contemporary Irish fiction, on which she has produced a monograph and numerous articles. Her other fields of interest include the contemporary British novel, neo-Victorianism, James Joyce, J. M. Coetzee, thing theory, and maritime studies. Her recent publications include book chapters in the edited collection Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present (Palgrave, 2016), on neo-Edwardian biofiction by Joseph O’Connor, and on peripheral Modernism in Ulysses (forthcoming with Legenda). She is currently working on a monograph on the cultural object in contemporary English-language fiction.
Christian Gutleben
is Professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, where he is Head of the English Department and teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British Literature. His research focuses on the links between these two historical periods and traditions, and he is the author of one of the earliest critical surveys of neo-Victorian literature, Nostalgic Postmodernism: The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel (Rodopi, 2001, re-edited 2013), as well as co-editor (with Susana Onega) of Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film (Rodopi, 2004). He has also published books on the English campus novel and Graham Greene, as well as numerous articles on postmodernism in British literature, is co-editor (with Marie-Luise Kohlke) of Brill|Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, and Chief Editor of Cycnos, a biannual academic journal dealing with Anglophone history and culture.
Stacey Kikendall
is an Associate Professor of English and the Mary Barlow Endowed Professor of English Literature and Language at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, USA. Her research primarily focuses on nineteenth-century British literature and issues of gender, and she has published multiple essays on Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, among others. She also regularly publishes in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and she serves as the Associate Director for Park University’s Faculty Center for Innovation.
Marie-Luise Kohlke
is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University, Wales, UK, with main research foci in neo-Victorianism, trauma narrative/theory, gender and sexuality. She is General and Founding Editor of Neo-Victorian Studies and series co-editor (with Christian Gutleben) of Brill|Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, most recently of Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions (Brill|Rodopi, 2017). Her articles and chapters on neo-Victorianism and trauma have appeared in various collections and journals, including Victoriographies, Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, The Feminist Review, and Women: A Cultural Review.
Catherine Lanone
is a Professor of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British Literature at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris 3, France. She has published articles on John Franklin’s accounts of his expeditions as well as on fictional rewritings of the lost expedition (such as the 2007 Terror by Dan Simmons for instance). She has also written extensively on Victorian literature (Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, and the Brontës) and twentieth-century literature (including Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster). She is the author of a monograph on E. M. Forster.
Sylvia Mieszkowski
is Professor of British Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria. Some of her research interests are short fiction, gender studies, queer theory, cultural analysis, serial narration, sound studies and dystopian fiction. She has published Teasing Narratives: Europäische Verführungsgeschichten nach ihrem goldenen Zeitalter (Erich Schmidt, 2003) and Resonant Alterities: Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction ([transcript], 2014), and has co-edited Sound-Effects: The Object Voice in English Fiction with Jorge Sacido Romero (Brill, 2015), and Unlaute: Noise / Geräusch in Kultur, Medien und Wissenschaften seit 1900 with Sigrid Nieberle ([transcript], 2017). One of her current research projects is titled Mixed Pleasures: (Neo-)Victorian Narratives in Dialogue.
Marc Napolitano
received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Though his contribution to this volume is his first essay on biofiction, he has published on musical interpretations of nineteenth-century novels in Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in Musical Theatre, and the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance. He has likewise published several articles on neo-Victorian film and stage adaptations in Neo-Victorian Studies. He hopes to continue his work on neo-Victorian biofiction
Laura Savu Walker
received her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA in 2006. She has taught as an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Programme at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia College, South Carolina and USC Columbia, USA. In addition to journal articles and book reviews, she has published the book Postmodern Postmodernists: The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative (Associated University Presses, 2009), and the edited collection, The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context (Lexington Books, 2015). Her scholarly interests range from authorship and life writing to affect theory and planetary studies.
Lucy Smith
recently completed a Ph.D. on Julia Margaret Cameron and neo-Victorian literature at the University of Portsmouth, England, UK. She has published a chapter on Virginia Woolf and archive fiction in the edited collection Virginia Woolf and Heritage (Clemson University Press, 2017) and an article on Julia Margaret Cameron in Word and Image. Her research interests include Victorian photography and albums, the archive in literature, and neo-historic fiction. She is currently working as an archivist.
Sonia Villegas-López
is Senior Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Huelva, Spain. Her research interests include the critical readings of memory and forgetting applied to neo-Victorian women’s writing, both in English and Spanish literature, though she is currently working on a Research Project on Restoration prose fiction. Her articles have appeared in Women’s Writing, Critique and Atlantis.