Notes on Contributors

Adam Abraham is Lecturer at the University of Miami. He is the author of three books: Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext (2019), Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors (2022), and When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA (2012). His writing has also appeared in Literary Hub, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, and the Dickens Quarterly.

Michael Allen is a retired librarian. His books include Charles Dickens' Childhood (1988), Charles Dickens and the Blacking Factory (2011), and The Personal History of Charles Dickens (2023). An English Lady in Paris: The Diary of Frances Anne Crewe 1786 was published in 2006.

Michelle Allen-Emerson is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where she has taught since 2003. Publications include Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London (2008) and the multi-volume edited collection of primary source material Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain (2012, 2013). She has published articles in Victorian Literature and Culture, English Literature in Transition, and Dickens Quarterly.

Malcolm Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies and was editor of The Dickensian for 30 years. He has published in the field of landscape aesthetics and visual arts as well as in Dickens studies. His publications include Landscape and Western Art (1999) in the New Oxford History of Art series, A Sweet View: The Making of an English Idyll (2021), and Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings (2006).

Brian Cheadle has, since his retirement, taught continuing education courses for Oxford and Cambridge and has continued to publish as an independent scholar, mainly on Dickens, in journals such as Essays in Criticism, The Cambridge Quarterly, and Dickens Studies Annual.

Laura Colombino is Professor of English at the University of Genova. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, architecture, and philosophy. She authored the books Ford Madox Ford: Vision, Visuality and Writing (2008), Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body (2013) and Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics (2024); she has co-edited The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (2018) and the special issue "Narrating the (non)human: ecologies, consciousness and myth" (Textual Practice 2022). She has contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro (2023).

Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent. His books include Leisure in the Industrial Revolution; The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood Since the Seventeenth Century; Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500, now in its 3rd edition; The Invention of Childhood (The book of BBC Radio 4 programs with Michael Morpurgo); The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832 to 1918; Grace Darling, Victorian Heroine; and The reputation of philanthropy since 1750: Britain and beyond. He is currently co-editing a volume on philanthropy in the age of the Enlightenment.

Valentine Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow in English, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, whose many critical-historical publications include Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian?Novel, (1975); The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (2000); and Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems, Poetics (2011).

Ushashi Dasgupta is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford and the Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English at Pembroke College. Her book Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World (2020) considers the significance of tenancy in the literary imagination. It reveals how rented spaces serve as a narrative resource for Dickens and complicate our sense of the Victorian home. She continues to write on literature and?spatiality and also has research interests in the history of reading. She serves on the editorial board of the Dickens Quarterly.

Philip Davis is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology at the University of Liverpool, where he was the Director of the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS). He is the author of Memory and Writing: From Wordsworth to Lawrence (1983), The Experience of Reading (1991), The Victorians (2002), Why Victorian Literature Still Matters (2008), Reading and the Reader (2013), Reading for Life (2020). His research also extends to Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Bernard Malamud, and the uses of memory from Wordsworth to Lawrence.

Bradley Deane is Professor of English at Michigan State University and the author of The Making of the Victorian Novelist (2003) and Masculinity and the New Imperialism (2014). He is currently working on the David Copperfield volume for the Dickens Companion Series.

John M. L. Drew is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Buckingham, where he supervises research students and co-directs the research programme in Charles Dickens Studies. He co-edited (with Michael Slater) volume 4 of the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism, authored Dickens the Journalist (2003), and directs the University of Buckingham's Dickens Journals Online project (?www.?djo.?org.?uk).

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg/Germany. Her research interests include narratology, linguistic approaches to literature, metaphor studies, law and literature, postcolonial studies and eighteenth-century aesthetics. She is the author of, among others, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (1993), the award-winning Towards a "Natural" Narratology (1996), and Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (2019). Her several (co-) edited volumes include Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory (2011), Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature (2014), Narrative Factuality: A Handbook (2019) and Being Untruthful: Lying, Fiction, and the Non-Factual (2021).

John Gardiner has taught History at Highsted Grammar School, Sittingbourne, since 2005. He is the author of a book about the posthumous reputation of an era, The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect (2002); he has published a number of journal articles and chapters in books on aspects of cultural history and has written reviews for Dickens Quarterly.

Sarah Gates is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University, where she teaches courses in British literature, the Victorians, J. R. R. Tolkien, critical theory, poetics, and songwriting. She has published articles on Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Shakespeare, and more recently on the songs of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Her latest article examines the intertextuality of Louise Erdrich's The Round House and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her work appears in PMLA, ELH, Studies in the Novel, Genre, Women's Studies, Dickens Studies Annual, Dylan Studies, and Victorian Poetry, among others.

Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English at McGill University. She is the author of Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (1996) and The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua (2020), and editor of Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination (2012). Her research areas include nineteenth-century novels (especially Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Benjamin Disraeli); history of the novel as a literary form; comparative analyses of the novel as a genre across time and different cultures; and cultural representations of Jews and Judaism in modern literary fiction.

Michael Hollington was Professor of English and Comparative Literature, who held chairs in France, Australia, and elsewhere. Although primarily a Dickensian (author of Dickens and the Grotesque, The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, and books on David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities), he published widely on Modern literature, including books on Whitman, Mansfield, and Grass and essays on D.H. Lawrence.

Anne Humpherys is Emerita Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Travels into the Poor Man's Country: The Work of Henry Mayhew (1977) and, with Louis James, editor of G. W. M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press (2008). She has written articles on Dickens, Tennyson, the nineteenth-century press, and popular culture.

Patricia Ingham was Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St. Anne's College, Oxford. Her publications include Dickens, Women and Language (1992), The Language of Gender and Class: Transformations in the Victorian Novel (2000),...