Contributors to this Issue

Christina J. Gilligan recently received her PhD in English from Brown University, where she is currently a Visiting Scholar of Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is working on a book project that examines the forms through which readerly identification is invited and resisted in the nineteenth-century British novel.Pritika Pradhan is a Lecturer of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Convenor of the MA in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of York. Her work on John Ruskin has appeared in ELH and her chapter on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was published in Post45 Vs. The World: Literary Perspectives on the Global Contemporary (ed. William G. Welty; Vernon Press, 2023). Her short fiction and public writing have appeared in Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and The Mays Anthology. She is currently at work on her first monograph, Modernity’s Marks: Details in Victorian Literature and Aesthetics, and on her first novel, The Transient, a story of immigration and intellectual coming of age. ***Aaron Worth is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He is the author of Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857–1918 (Ohio State University Press, 2014) and editor, most recently, of The Wendigo and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood (Oxford University Press, 2024). He is currently working on a study of conjuring in Victorian culture.Jamie L. Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was named a 2024–25 Helen Corley Petit Scholar. Jones researches in the fields of nineteenth-century literature and history and in the environmental humanities. Her first book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, was published by UNC Press in 2023. She continues to research the literature, art, and the cultural history of energy and the ocean.Monica Flegel is Professor of English at Lakehead University. Her work focuses on cultural studies, spanning Victorian literature and culture and contemporary fan and media studies. She has been published in scholarly journals such as Children’s Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and the Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Her most recent book in Victorian studies is Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture: Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family (Routledge, 2015). More recently, she co-authored with Judith Leggatt Superhero Culture Wars: Politics, Marketing, and Social Justice in Marvel Comics (Bloomsbury, 2021).Supritha Rajan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Her scholarly articles have been published in such journals as Nineteenth-Century Literature and Victorian Literature and Culture. Her book, A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Michigan Press, 2015), was awarded the MLA Prize for a First Book. Her current book project, tentatively titled Transparent Forms: Thinking, Feeling, and Doing in the Human and Natural Sciences, 1780–1890, examines the relationship between discipline-formation and the cultivation of specific cognitive and affective attitudes during the long nineteenth century.