Issue 20.3 (Winter 2024)

Contributor Biographies

Elisa Beshero-Bondar leads the Digital Mitford project (https://digitalmitford.org/), a long-range effort to digitize the letters and literary works of Mary Russell Mitford. She is the author of Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism (2011) which features Mitford's first publications of poetry. She is Professor of Digital Humanities at Penn State Behrend in Erie, PA, where she chairs the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology (DIGIT) undergraduate program. She has recently completed work on the Frankenstein Variorum (https://frankensteinvariorum.org/), a digital edition on the public web that invites readers to explore five versions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She serves as chair of the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

Rob Breton is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous essays on nineteenth-century popular fiction, exploring its political content, including its gender politics. His last book, The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction (Manchester University Press), examines the use of radical and Chartist discourses in the cheap literatures of the 1830s and ‘40s. He has also published on the construction of masculinities in the late ninetieth century.

Alicia Carroll is the author of New Woman Ecologies: From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond (University of Virginia Press, 2019). She is currently working on a book entitled “The Lives of Common Plants in Victorian Literature and Culture.” Carroll is Chair and Professor of English at Auburn University and Chair of The British Women Writers Association. She is currently creating an open-access digital archive project entitled “Early Green Women,” sharing primary materials documenting proto-environmentalist British women’s writing, gardening, art, and craft.

Alycia Gilbert earned her PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington, where she currently works as a lecturer in the Department of English. She specializes in nineteenth-century literature and adaptation, exploring film, television, and stage adaptations as transhistorical performances of gender and empire. Her broader interest in gender performance and reception studies has also inspired her research in nineteenth-century periodicals. Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review and the South Atlantic Review.

Lizzie Harris McCormick is a Professor of English at Suffolk Community College, SUNY in Long Island, NY where she serves as the Coordinator of the Rose Tehan Writing Center and as President of the Ammerman Campus Faculty Senate. She is currently developing a wordless novel in the Modernist tradition, Wolf Bride, based on Aino Kallas’s modernist Sudenmorsian (1928). She is the co-editor of The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s (Routledge 2018). Her work has appeared in various collections and journals including The Latchkey, NCGS, The Henry James e-journal, and English Literature in Transition 1880-1920.

Jiwon Min is a visiting assistant professor in the English Department at Oxford College of Emory University. Her research interests are in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, global Anglophone literature, postcolonial ecologies, and environmental humanities. She is currently working on her book project, The Making and Unmaking of the Krakatau: Global Environmental Literatures and Weather Weirding, which explores the intersection between literary studies and global environmental phenomenon. Merging international media coverage of the 1883 Indonesian volcanic eruption, ecological surveys, and depictions of the eruption’s aftermath in global literatures, her project challenges the traditional center-periphery model of earth system humanities by restoring neglected local narratives, so as to achieve a more truly global ecology of environmentalism and literature.

Anhiti Patnaik is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India. She is a Fellow of The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University and The Institute of World Literature, Harvard University and has been published in Neo-Victorian Studies, Victorian Review, Brontë Studies, and Journal of International Women’s Studies.

Lisa Vandenbossche is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship focuses on writing by and about sailors as a nexus between print culture and reform movements in the long eighteenth-century Anglophone World. Most recently her work on reform discourse, travel writing, and women’s bodily autonomy has appeared in Women’s Studies, The Mark Twain Annual, and an edited collection, Cultural Economies of the Atlantic World.