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Katharine Anderson \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nB.A. McGill; M.A.; UMass\/Amherst;\u00a0Ph.D., Northwestern University<\/span>
\nDepartment of Humanities, Graduate Programs in History, Humanities, and Science & Technology Studies<\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>:19th<\/sup> century science and environment; voyage narratives and sea-writing; the maritime empire; Victorian material culture.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: underwater, technology and the imagination in late 19thC and early 20thC; science museums.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

John Bell<\/strong>
\nEnglish; Writing Department<\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: The Victorian Novel, Frances Trollope, Dickens, the Bront\u00ebs, social criticism in the novel, humour (comic and satiric) in the novel, same-sex and related gender issues in Victorian literature and culture
\ncurrent project<\/em>: the Frances Trollope website: http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/johnbell\/trollope
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Carpenter<\/strong>
\nB.A., U of Toronto; M.A., UC Berkeley; Ph.D., University of London
\nDepartment of Visual Arts<\/p>\n

Tina Young Choi<\/strong>
\nA.B., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley
\nDepartment of English, Graduate Programs in English, and Science & Technology Studies
\nemail <tinayc@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: the 19th-c. novel; urban literature; 19th-c. statistics and other sciences; Victorian material culture;\u00a019th-c.\u00a0information culture
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: mass-market maps and cartographic literacy, 1790s-1850s, especially with relation to contemporaneous visual and information culture
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Elicia Clements
\n<\/strong>PhD and MA in English Literature at York University
\nMA in English Literature, York University
\nBA (Honours) in English Literature , University of Western Ontario
\nBMus (Honours) in Music Education , University of Western Ontario
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Humanities
\nemail <elicia@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests:\u00a0<\/em>interdisciplinary connections between the art forms of literature and music, aesthetics, the Decadent 90s, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, the late-Victorian composer Ethel Smyth.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: book project on\u00a0Modernist Literary Musics.
\n<\/em>webpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Dorothy de Val<\/strong>
\nBMus, MA University of Toronto; PhD King’s College, London\u00a0Graduate Program in Music
\nMusicology
\nemail <ddeval@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests:<\/em> music in late Victorian and Edwardian England; the first English folk song revival; piano industry and piano culture\u00a0throughout the 19th century; Broadwood family (pianos and folksong connections); Victorian music hall; Percy Grainger.
\ncurrent projects: \u00a0<\/em>Gaelic song collecting in the late 19th and early 20thc (specifically Amy Murray); Gaelic song.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

James Elwick<\/strong>
\nB.A., Western; M.Phil., Cantab; Ph.D., U of Toronto
\nScience and Technology Studies Program
\nemail <jelwick@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: History of life sciences; Victorian science; History and Philosophy of Science\/Science and Technology Studies; Social and Intellectual History of Modern Britain
\ncurrent project<\/em>: ‘An Adopted Chinese Culture’: the Victorian Examination Mania and the Origin of League Tables, 1840-1890, studies the use of standardized examinations in British and Imperial education, and rewrites the history of educational achievement and meritocracy using tools from history and philosophy of science (HPS) and science and technology studies (STS).
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Margo S. Gewurtz<\/strong>
\nB.A., U of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell
\nDepartment of Humanities (Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, as of July 2009); Graduate Programmes in Humanities, History, Women’s Studies
\nemail <mgewurtz@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: Sino-Western cultural relations 19 and 20C with a special focus on Canadian missionaries in China and their Chinese co-workers. Late Victorian religion: Anglo-American missionary movement. Gender issues in China mission history.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: The Canadian Mission in North Henan China, 1890-1937: Portraits of a Partnership. (book length ms); Kala Azar in China: Medicine and Empire in Asia, 1890-1949.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Alison Halsall<\/strong>
\nB.A. (Honours), Carleton; M.A., Carleton; Ph.D., York University
\nDepartment of Humanities; Graduate Programs in Humanities, English, and Visual Arts
\nemail <ahalsall@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span>the 19th-c. novel; Victorian visual cultures; neo-Victorian adaptations; transmedia studies; comics and graphic narratives.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: LGBTQ+ comics studies; children and youth as readers of graphic texts; comics for young readers.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Lesley J. Higgins<\/strong>
\nB.A., Brock; M.A., Ph.D., Queen’s
\nDepartment of English; Graduate Programs in English, Humanities
\nemail <19higgins55@gmail.com><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>:poetry; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Walter Pater; textual studies and editorial\u00a0theory; late Victorian \u2013 Modernist literature and visual arts.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: [a] Co-general editor of the\u00a0Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(9 vols., OUP), and editor of 3 volumes:\u00a0Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks\u00a0<\/em>(2015),\u00a0\u00a0Dublin Notebook\u00a0<\/em>(2014), and\u00a0Oxford Essays and Notes<\/em>. [b] With colleague David Latham, co-general editor of the\u00a0Collected Works of Walter Pater<\/em>(10 vols., OUP). [c] Developing a book-length study,\u00a0Hopkins: Confessing the Flesh.<\/em>
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

David Latham<\/strong>
\nB.A. (Honours), Acadia; M.A., Toronto; Ph.D., York
\nDepartment of English and Graduate Program in English
\nemail <dlatham@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: Pre-Raphaelite literature and art, Victorian poetry and culture.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>:\u00a0 Editor since 1994 of the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies<\/a><\/em>, publishing in the spring and fall studies of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent art, culture, and literature;\u00a0Co-general editor with Lesley Higgins of The Collected Works of Walter Pater<\/em>, a ten-volume edition scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Bernard Lightman<\/strong>
\nB.A., M.A., York U; Ph.D., Brandeis University; F.R.S.
\nDepartment of Humanities; Graduate Programs in Humanities, History, and Science and Technology Studies
\nemail <lightman@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>:19th c British science; science and popular culture; science and religion; scientific exhibitions and\u00a0museums; scientific periodicals; transnational study of British and Chinese science
\ncurrent projects<\/em>:the correspondence of John Tyndall; global history of evolution and religion in the 19th\u00a0century
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott McLaren<\/strong>
\nB.A., M.I.St., Ph.D., University of Toronto
\nYork University Libraries; Graduate Programs in Humanities and History
\nemail <scottm@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests:<\/em> religion and the book, 18th and 19th c. church history, Victorian Gothic fiction, George MacDonald.
\ncurrent projects:<\/em> monograph under contract with the University of Toronto Press titled A Reading People: Print Culture and the Methodist Struggle for Social Respectability in Upper Canada, 1800-1850; reassessment of John Wesley’s contribution to the development of denominational publishing in North America.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Kim Michasiw<\/strong>
\nB.A., M.A., Ph.D., U of Toronto
\nDepartment of English
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Natalie Neill<\/strong>
\nPh.D., English, York; M.A., Film Studies, Carleton; B.A., English and Film Studies, Carleton
\nDepartment of English; Graduate Program in English
\nemail <nneill@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: the Gothic, women’s authorship in the Romantic Period, parody and satire, transmedia adaptation
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: 1) critical edition of Mary Charlton’s\u00a0Rosella<\/i>; 2) article on Gothic parody and Romantic feminism; 3) article on Poe’s satires on female writers<\/div>\n
webpage<\/a><\/p>\n
Deborah Neill<\/strong><\/div>\n
Department of History
\nB.A. U Waterloo, MA and PhD University of Toronto
\nemail <dneill@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: history of European expansion, medicine, capitalism and colonialism in Africa; Victorian culture, economics and gender
\ncurrent project<\/em>: a study of the Liverpool company John Holt & Co. across German, French and British colonies in western Africa between the 1860s and 1914
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Marlis Schweitzer<\/strong>
\nPh.D., University of Toronto
\nGraduate Program in Theatre Studies (GPD); Graduate Program in History (Associated Member)
\nemail <schweit@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: C19 and early C20 popular entertainment, fashion and beauty culture, transnational commodity culture, celebrity culture, theatre historiography, Performance Studies
\ncurrent projects<\/em>: Ambassadors of Empire: Child Performers and Colonial Audiences, 1835-1860 (a SSHRC-funded project) on the movement of child performers along global theatrical circuits; technological innovations (e.g. ocean liners, telegraphy, typewriters) and structural changes (e.g. reorganization of touring routes) that facilitated the rapid exchange of theatrical commodities (plays, performers, props, costumes, etc.) between Europe and North America in the late C19 and early C20
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Victor Shea<\/strong>
\nB.A., PEI; M.A., U of Toronto; Ph.D., York
\nDepartment of Humanities, Graduate Programs in English, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Studies
\nemail <vshea@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: Victorian Literature and Culture; Victorian Imperialism; Critical Theory.
\ncurrent project<\/em>: Victorian Literature: An Anthology<\/em> (Blackwells, 2011).
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Ann B. (Rusty) Shteir<\/strong>
\nB.A., Douglass; Ph.D., Rutgers
\nWomen\u2019s Studies and Humanities, Graduate Programs in Women\u2019s Studies, Humanities, English, and History
\nemail <rshteir@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>:\u00a0 women and botany, historical and cultural perspectives on women, nature, and science; gender and science; 18th and 19th century women\u2019s studies; women\u2019s popular science writing 18th and 19th century; \u00a0and mythology and visual culture.
\ncurrent project<\/em>:\u00a0 a\u00a0study of four elite women in 1820s-30s British North America who collected plants in Quebec and Newfoundland for W. J. Hooker’s\u00a0Flora Boreali-Americana\u00a0<\/em>(1829-40).
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Karen Stanworth
\n<\/strong>BFA (Concordia), BEd (McGill), MA (York), PhD (Manchester)
\n<\/strong>Art History and Education
\nemail <kstanworth@edu.yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: \u00a0visual culture and pedagogy; higher education and the arts; feminist cultural theory and production; and narrative and history.\u00a0Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the Canadas, 1830-1910\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0is a major study on visual culture and identity in 19th century, Victorian Canada which examines the ways in which visual culture participates in the construction and mediation of social identities, particularly in early museum pedagogies, visual spectacle and the representation of group identities.<\/p>\n

Current research initiatives<\/em> also include curatorial work on issues in queer archives in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives of Canada (CLGA). She is also working on a series of case studies about bawdy images in 20th century Canada.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

William Whitla<\/strong>
\nB.A., Toronto; M.A., Toronto; S.T.B., Trinity College, Toronto; D. Phil., Oxford (Merton College)
\nDepartment of English; Department of Humanities (Retired: Senior Scholar)
\nemail <wwhitla@gmail.com><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: Victorian literature and culture, Victorian religious and social history, and Victorian art and aesthetics; literary theory; medieval and Renaissance literature and culture.
\ncurrent projects<\/em>:Pugin, Barry, and the Nature of Gothic; \u201cWilliam Morris and the Classical Tradition\u201d in\u00a0The Routledge Companion to William Morris<\/i>\u00a0(2021); Victorian Literature: An Anthology\u00a0<\/i>(Blackwells, 2011),\u00a0\u00a0with Victor Shea;\u00a0The English Handbook\u00a0<\/i>(Blackwells, 2010);\u00a0\u00a0a study of translation theory and practice in the nineteenth century, including the Matthew Arnold\/Francis Newman controversy over the translation of Homer; Anglo-Norman and Irish Illumination in Gospel and Apocalypse books, 800-1200 CE.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary F. Williamson<\/strong>
\nB.A., M.A., M.L.S., University of Toronto
\nYork University Libraries (retired, Fine Arts Bibliographer); Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Art History
\nemail <mfw@yorku.ca><\/p>\n

research interests<\/em>: cookery and food of the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in Canada; book illustration in 19th century Canada.
\nwebpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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