Contributors to this Issue

Ruth M. McAdams is a Senior Teaching Professor in the English department at Skidmore College. She is the author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) as well as articles in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Pedagogy. Noah Warren is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont. A poet and critic, he is the author of two volumes of verse, and contributes public criticism to venues such as Chicago Review, Poetry Foundation, and Los Angeles Review of Books. His dissertation traced the fate of occasional poetry in the American nineteenth century; his current project thinks through the problem of orality and light language in transcendentalist writing. *** Jonathan Elmer is a Professor of English at Indiana University. He is author of In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric (University of Chicago Press, 2024), On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World (Fordham University Press, 2008) and Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe (Stanford University Press, 1995). He has published many essays on a wide variety of topics in American literature and culture, as well as on theoretical problems in psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and systems theory. James Campbell is Chair of the English Department at the University of Central Florida. His work has appeared in SEL, NLH, and ELH, among others. He is the author of Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire: Begotten, Not Made (Palgrave, 2015). Katherine Dunagan Osborne is a Professor of English at Davis and Elkins College. She has articles on Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Victorians Institute Journal and Victorian Literature and Culture. Her article, “Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of Heirlooms” appears in the March 2010 issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature. Erika Wright is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education and a Lecturer in the English at the University of Southern California. She is the Associate Director of the Humanities, Ethics, Art, and Law (HEAL) program and the Narrative Medicine program at the Keck School of Medicine. Her book, Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Ohio University Press, 2016), examines the rhetoric of disease prevention and health maintenance in fiction and health manuals. She has published articles on health and disease, graduate education, medical professionalism, addiction, and anti-racism in medical education. Her current project explores professional secrecy in Victorian fiction.