Contributors to this Issue

Jamie Luis Parra is an Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College and was a C3 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies at Williams College. His work includes “How To Have Style in an Emergency: Huckleberry Finn and the Ethics of Fictionality,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and his writing has also appeared in Novel and American Literary History. His current book project, “Sky Water: Aesthetics and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” is about writers questioning the social and philosophical origins of law and wondering about the law’s necessity.Janice Niemann is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, and continuing faculty in the Department of English at Camosun College. She is the author of “Come Together: Oral Sex as Oral History in Gregory Scofield’s Love Medicine and One Song,” recently published in Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne. Janice’s dissertation, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, argues for garden settings as sites of transgression in long nineteenth-century British novels, and her next project explores representations of menstruation in Victorian pornography. ***Joanne Shattock is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester Victorian Studies Centre. Her recent books include Authorship, Journalism and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2021), Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and, with Elizabeth Jay, Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, 25 vols. (Pickering & Chatto/Routledge, 2011–16). She is also an Academic Editor for Routledge Historical Resources.Wendy Veronica Xin is a Departmental Lecturer in English at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and has published essays in New Literary History, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Victorian Literature and Culture, and others. She has just completed a book on the affective dimensions of plot and plotting, titled The Secret Lives of Plot, and is now at work on two projects: one on character, titled On Being (and Not Being) a Person: The Function of Literary Character, and another on how problems of genre can teach us about moral and social life.Jayne Hildebrand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Barnard College. Her most recent publications include “Environmental Desire in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss” (Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2021), “Middlemarch’s Medium: Description, Sympathy, and Realism’s Ambient Worlds” (ELH, 2018), “The Ranter and the Lyric: Reform and Genre Heterogeneity in Ebenezer Elliott’s Corn Law Rhymes” (Victorian Review, 2013), and “News from Nowhere and William Morris’s Aesthetics of Unreflectiveness: Pleasurable Habits” (English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920, 2011). Her current book project, Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.Lindsay Wilhelm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. Her article “Bright Sunshine, Dark Shadows: Decadent Beauty and Victorian Views of Hawai’i” appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature in March 2021, and her “Island Dandies, Transpacific Decadence and the Politics of Style” is forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s, ed. Kristin Mahoney and Dustin Friedman (Cambridge Univ. Press). Her book project, “The Height of Taste: Evolution, Aestheticism, and Cultural Progress, 1850–1924” is currently under review.

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