Issue 19.1 (Spring 2023)

Contributor Biographies

Catherine Addison is a fifth-generation South African who completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in the 1980s. She taught in the English Department at the University of Zululand for many years until her retirement, but remains a Research Fellow there. Having started her career as a Byron specialist, she has diversified over the years. Her main focus of research in the earlier 2000s was the verse-novel in both in its Victorian and its contemporary manifestations. In 2017 she published a book entitled A Genealogy of the Verse Novel. Her other literary interests include prosody and stanza form, the prose novel, Romantic women warriors, colonial and postcolonial writing and African women’s fiction. She has published on Byron, Shelley, Spenser, Mitford, Crane, Southey and other poets, as well as on formal aspects of literature such as versification, narrative, simile, and irony.

Emily Baldys is an assistant professor of English at Millersville University with specialties in nineteenth-century British literature and critical disability studies. Her current research explores the ways in which Victorian literary texts engage with scientific, medical, and popular discourse to shape cultural conceptions of bodies and minds. She has previously published in PQ, Dickens Studies Annual, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

Leeann Hunter is Scholarly Associate Professor of English at Washington State University. Her academic interests center on questions of purpose, community, and wellness. These interests have found expression in Victorian Studies in her research on work, care economies, and self-help; in undergraduate programs in her work on mindfulness-based approaches to social and emotional wellness; and in the health humanities in her work on decolonizing wellness.