Issue 18.2 (Summer 2022)

Contributor Biographies

Kimberly Glassman is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. She obtained an MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture from the University of Oxford, and a BFA in History of Art & Psychology at Concordia University. Her research interests include the history of art, science, and botany considered through the lens of postcolonial and feminist studies. Kimberly has recently published in SciArt Magazine (2019), The Oxford Mail (2020), Litinfinite Journal (2021), and European Journal of Cultural Studies (forthcoming 2022).

Marion Grant is a doctoral student in the joint Communications and Culture Program at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada. Her research analyzes the intersection of periodicals, politics, and art during the fin-de-siècle period in Britain.

Jocelyn Hargrave is an Australian-born Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby, England. Her research focuses on and intersects book history (early modern to nineteenth century), editorial theory and practice (both historical and modern), and contemporary publishing studies. She is the author of The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Teaching Publishing and Editorial Practice: The Transition from University to Industry (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and numerous articles published in international journals such as Publishing Research Quarterly, Journal of Scholarly Publishing and Media History. Jocelyn’s most recent article, ‘Peripatetic Printers of Early Nineteenth-Century Australia: The Interconnected Stories of Howe, Bent, and Fawkner’, is forthcoming in the ‘Book History in Australia and New Zealand’ special issue of Antipodes (35:2). Jocelyn is also a practising book editor, with twenty-five years’ experience working in the publishing industry.

Harriet Kramer Linkin is an Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at New Mexico State University, where she has taught courses in British Romanticism and women’s literature. She has published widely on Romantic-era writers (particularly Mary Tighe and William Blake) and is the editor of the first edition of The Collected Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe (Lehigh University Press, 2020), the first edition of Mary Tighe’s Verses Transcribed for H. T. (Romantic Circles, 2014), the first edition of Mary Tighe’s Selena: A Scholarly Edition (Ashgate, 2012), the first scholarly edition of The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe (UP Kentucky, 2005) and the co-editor (with Stephen C. Behrendt) of two collections on Romantic women poets: Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception (UP Kentucky, 1999) and Approaches to Teaching Women Poets of the British Romantic Period (MLA, 1997).

Vasiliki Misiou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Intercultural Studies at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In previous years, she has offered undergraduate and graduate courses in the fields of literary translation, theatre translation, and translation theory. As a professional translator, she has collaborated with several institutions and publishing houses. Her research interests revolve around literary translation, theatre translation, gender and/in translation, feminist approaches to literature and translation, paratexts and translation, as well as translation and semiotics. She has been awarded a prize for excellence for her postdoctoral research on nineteenth-century Greek women translators, which is the focus of her forthcoming monograph.

Abigail Moreshead is a PhD candidate in the Texts and Technology program at the University of Central Florida, specializing in digital humanities. Abigail’s research looks at the intersection of book studies and feminist media studies, focusing on gendered labor in textual production and knowledge creation. Her dissertation focuses on women artist–illustrators of the twentieth-century wood-engraving revival. She is currently the assistant editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement, social media manager for Johnson’s Dictionary Online, and a literature and writing instructor for the UCF English Department.

Megan Peiser (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oakland University (Rochester, MI, USA). Her monograph The Review Periodical and British Women Novelists, 1790–1820 and accompanying database, The Novels Reviewed Database, 1790–1820, are forthcoming. She is the co-director with Emily Spunaugle of the Marguerite Hicks Project, is president of the Aphra Behn Society, and vice president of the Bibliographical Society of America. Her work appears in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture 1780–1840, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, Criticism, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Suzanne M. Stauffer is a professor of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University, where she has been since 2006. She earned an MLS from Brigham Young University in 1986 and a PhD in Library and Information Science from UCLA in 2004. She teaches courses in youth services librarianship and the history and theory of cultural heritage institutions. Her areas of research are print culture in America, including the history of the American public library as a social and cultural institution, the history of children’s services in public libraries, the history of the professionalization of librarianship, and the history of women in librarianship.