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This page is devoted to the
team that produces www.oscholars.com.
Rather than have an Editorial Advisory Board, we have assembled a group of
specialists, known informally as The Rose Garden, where each member has
responsibility for an area, geographical or thematic, from or on which to
report and comment. As Associate
Editors of the whole group, all work to improve and extend coverage of our
chosen project, the world of the fin de siècle in its different aspects, the
lives and works of the makers of the fin de siècle, and current scholarship
on the period and its public representation in exhibitions and on stage as
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Anne Anderson, formerly at the University of Southampton, now has a research fellowship at the
Huntington and at the University of Exeter, while also teaching at the
University of Bristol, and curating at Southampton City Art Gallery. She joined our VISIONS group as
Arts & Crafts Editor in November 2008. @ |
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Sharon Bickle is a UQ Postdoctoral Fellow in the School for
English, Media Studies and Art History at the |
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Isa Bickmann
is an Editor of VISIONS,
responsible for our coverage of fin-de-siècle exhibitions and |
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Elisa Bizzotto
is junior research fellow in English Literature at IUAV University, Venice. She has worked on |
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Luca Caddia was born in Rome in 1977. In 2002 he took a degree in
Philosophy and in 2008 a Doctorate in English Literature (both at the
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’). Strongly concerned with men's studies, his
doctoral dissertation dealt with the relationship between character and
career in Anthony Trollope's Palliser |
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Anuradha Chatterjee
is our Editor charged with bringing Ruskin studies into our project with
journal on Ruskin studies to-day, called THE EIGHTH LAMP. She
grew up in |
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Koenraad Claes succeeded Eva Thienpont as our Belgian Editor
in September 2008. He writes ‘I am a |
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Jessica Cox (Brunel University) is Reviews Editor of THE LATCHKEY, our journal devoted to the New Woman. Jessica Cox’s research interests include Victorian sensation literature (particularly the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins), the Brontës, New Woman Fiction, the neo-Victorian novel, and film adaptation. She is particularly interested in gender approaches to literature, and the impact of first-wave feminism upon the Victorian novel. She would welcome research students working in any of these areas. She has organised a number of conferences, including an interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Adapting the Nineteenth Century: Revisiting, Revising, and Rewriting the Past’, held at the University of Wales Lampeter in August 2008 (click here for details), a one-day symposium on Mary Elizabeth Braddon and a postgraduate conference entitled ‘Haunted Bodies: Gender and (Dis)Embodiment’. She has published a number of articles in various journals, including Women's Writing, Philological Quarterly and the Journal of Gender Studies, and she is currently in the process of editing two proposed collections on Mary Braddon. @ |
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Tricia Cusack is Reviews Editor for VISIONS.
She is part of the Culture, Society and Communication |
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Helen Davies took over from Nadine Muller as our Neo-Victorian Editor in October 2010. She is an AssociateLecturer |
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Petra Dierkes-Thrun is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and serves as
the General Editor of THE
LATCHKEY. Petra’s research and teaching interests include Victorian and Modernist literature and cultural studies; gender, feminist and GLBTQ studies; interdisciplinary studies of literature and religion, literature and opera, literature and film, literature and dance; as well as literary and critical theory. In addition to a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2003), she holds Erstes Staatsexamen degrees in English, German, and Theology from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany (1995, 1996). Petra has published articles on Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss, George Bernard Shaw, and Arthur Symons, and is a contributor to Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. Philip E. Smith II (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008).
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Tine Englebert
graduated as Master in Germanic Philology (University of Ghent, Belgium). She
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Stefano-Maria
Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford) is editor of the forthcoming volume on The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe and was organiser of the
Oxford conference of the same name in
March 2008. He became our Oxford
Editor in October 2008, and we will be extending the pioneering co-operation
between The Reception of Oscar Wilde in
Europe and THE OSCHOLARS. @ |
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Emily
Alder took over from Michèle
Mendelssohn as our Editor for Scotland in July 2008. She graduated in
1999 with a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was awarded a doctorate for her thesis on ‘William
Hope Hodgson and the borderlands of the fin-de-siècle’ March 2009 at Napier
University, Edinburgh.
University of Queensland in Australia. Her
current research project, ‘We cross and interlace: The many lives of `Michael
Field' focuses on the cross-gendered literary identity ‘Michael Field’
(Katharine Harris Bradley, 1846–1914 and Edith Emma Cooper, 1862–1913). Her
book, The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love
Letters of Michael Field, 1876–1909 (U. of Virginia Press, 2008) is an
edition of the letters exchanged between Bradley and Cooper. Dr Bickle is one
half of the editorial team of 
publications in Germany. Art Historian,
Author, Curator, she studied Art History, Media Studies and European
Ethnology (Cultural Studies) in 
Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee,
Aubrey Beardsley and other fin-de-siècle authors by privileging genre,
gender, myth, interart and comparatist approaches. She is the author of La mano e l’anima (Milan, 2001) and
has co-edited the Pre-Raphaelite magazine The
Germ. Thoughts towards nature in Poetry,
Literature and Art (Trento, 2008) with Paola Spinozzi. 
Novels. In 2006 he presented a paper
about Ferdinand Lopez's suicide in Trollope's The Prime Minister during
a conference on ‘Irresponsibility’ organized by the Nanyang Technological
University of Singapore, and in August 2008 he read a paper about the BBC
adaptations of Trollope's novels during a conference on Neo-Victorianism
organized by the University of Wales Lampeter. He also wrote a paper about
the role of collectible objects in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's neo-Pompeian
paintings, for the NAVSA 2008 Conference at Yale University
Diploma
in Architecture. She went on to complete her Masters in Architectural History
and Theory from the 
Research Assistant based at Ghent
University, currently writing a PhD dissertation within the framework of the
research project ‘
The Public Library of Ghent, Belgium. She
developed a special interest in the musical adaptations of the works of Oscar
Wilde. Tine is preparing a Ph.D. at the University of Ghent, which examines
the relationship between literature and libretto, especially focused on Oscar
Wilde, and as Editor for Music contributes a regular report called ‘Mad,
Scarlet Music’ which explores the musical adaptations and versions of
Wilde’s work, and their performance.
Valerie Fehlbaum was
educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, she now teaches in the Department of
English Languages & Literatures at the University of Geneva. Her
biography of Ella Hepworth Dixon, Ella Hepworth Dixon : the story of a
modern woman was published by Ashgate in 2005.|
Nicola Gauld completed
a PhD in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen in 2006. Her thesis was
titled ‘The Nature of the Beast: depictions of the exotic animal in C19
visual culture’. In 2005 she published ‘Victorian Bodies: the wild animal as
adornment’ in the British Art Journal.
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Irena Grubica
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Helena Gurfinkel received her PhD in English from Tufts
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Steven Halliwell, our Webmaster, is a publisher (The Rivendale Press) and editor, and has written bibliographies of the Enitharmon Press and the Tragara Press. Long the mainstay of the Eighteen-Nineties Society, he is currently working with Philip Cohen on a biography of the anarchist poet John Barlas. @ |
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Christine Huguet is a Senior Lecturer (maître de conférences) at
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Ilze Kačāne, our Editor for Latvia, is
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Amy Lee has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University
of Warwick, UK. Her research interest
includes the Chinese Diaspora, female self-writing, contemporary fiction and
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John McRae has
been at the forefront of work on the language and literature interface since
the publication of his Reading Between the Lines in 1984. He has
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Brook Miller (University of Minnesota, Morris) is co-editor of
SHAVINGS, our journal devoted to Bernard Shaw, which will be re-launched in
2010. Miller's research interests include fin de siècle
transatlantic studies, modernist periodicals, and the relation between
literary and philosophical models of self in the early twentieth
century. He has published on Shaw and a variety of other early
twentieth century writers, and has a forthcoming book, America in the British Imaginary at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Atsuko Ogane ( 大鐘
敦子 ),
our Editor for Japan, is a poet and professor at Kanto Gakuin University in
Tokyo. Her current research is chiefly on Flaubert’s Hérodias de Trois Contes
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Anna Orhanen, the editor
for Finland, is a research student whose chief interest is the aesthetics in
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Cristina Pascual
Aransáez, Editor for Spain, is Professor at Camilo José Cela
University (Madrid). She graduated with honours in English Philology at the
University of La Rioja in June 1997. She obtained a Research Fellowship
(funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science), and as a result
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Michelle Paull,
one of our two Editors for Theatre Studies, is a lecturer at St Mary’s
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Laurence Roussillon-Constanty is Maître de Conférences at the University of Toulouse, where she teaches English. She is the author of Méduse au miroir. Esthétique romantique de Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Grenoble: ELLUG, 2007) and of a translation into French of a selection of texts from John Ruskin's Modern Painters. Her main research field is Victorian literature and painting. She is also the co-editor of our online journal, The Eighth Lamp, Ruskin Studies To-day. |
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Following a career in the
performing arts as a dancer and actor in both the UK and USA, Annabel Rutherford completed MAs in
Dance History and English as well as an inter-disciplinary MA in Russian
Modernism (Art, Music, and Drama). She is currently pursuing a PhD in English
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S.I. Salamensky holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the editor of the book Talk Talk Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation (Routledge) and has just completed a book manuscript working-titled Wilde Words: Performance and the Proto-Modernist Cultural Imagination. She is currently engaged in a project concerning notions of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ from the fin de siècle through the current day; and editing a Special Issue of THE OSCHOLARS addressing Wilde, Jews and the fin de siècle. @ |
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Tijana Stajic, who became Editor for Sweden in July 2008, earned
her B.A. in 2004 at the University of |
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Lawrence Switzky joined us in April 2010, and will be responsible
with Brook Miller for reviving SHAVINGS. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and a
Ph.D. from Harvard University. He teaches 20th c. drama and
contemporary drama at the University of Toronto (or will starting this fall,
anyway). He has published articles on Bernard Shaw and other British
dramatists as well as the rise of the director and the strange forms that
theatrical writing took during and after modernism. He has deep
affection for puppets, old timepieces, and Barcelona, Spain. He also
believes strongly in creative lying and cannot see a sunset without thinking
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Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse (UTM), France. She is a specialist of Victorian |
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Sarah Townley, a co-Editor for THE
LATCHKEY, is a doctoral candidate in the School of English at the
University of Nottingham. She is hoping to revisit Henry James as a
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Sarah Victoria Turner is
Joint Editor for VISIONS,
and is responsible for gathering information on theses (in progress and
recently completed) on the visual arts of the period c.1880-c.1910. She has
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Naomi Wood is
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We also thank Patricia Flanagan Behrendt, Lisa Hager, Sondeep Kandola Angela Kingston, Mark Llewellyn, Kirsten MacLeod, Elizabeth McCollum, Michèle Mendelssohn, Claire O’Callaghan, Maureen O’Connor, Tiffany Perala, Barbara Pfeifer, Colleen Platt, Elaine Saniter, Julie A. Sparks, Catrin Siedenbiedel, Gulshan Taneja, Eva Thienpont, Andrew Eastham, Nadine Muller and Linda Pui-Ling Wong who, until turned aside by pressure of other work, were valued members of the team. |
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studies, her teaching and research areas
are: intertextuality, intermediality, intercultural relations, and the
fantastic (see her Introduction à l’étude des textes fantastiques
anglo-américains, Paris, Editions du temps, 2000).
she teaches English Neo-Classicism and
Romanticism. She graduated in Comparative literature and English literature
from the 
Not an academic, but with maîtrises
in literature (on Proust) and law from the University of Paris X – Nanterre, Danielle
Guérin worked as a senior administrator in the Department of Music
at Radio France until her retirement at the end of 2009. She is one of
the four founder members of the Société Oscar Wilde en France and edits the
Society’s journal 
Nevin Yilderim Koyoncu
Lucia Krämer, Editor for
Germany / Redakteurin fur Deutschland, is Lecturer in British Literature and
Culture at the University of Regensburg in Germany. She took her Ph.D.
in 2002 for a thesis on fictional biographies of Oscar Wilde in Roman,
Drama und Film (Lang, 2003), and she has published articles on Wilde as
an object of the British heritage industry and on Wilde adaptations in
heritage films. More recently, she has worked on animation films and the
representation of masculinity in the genre of the rock film. The main focus
of her current work, however, is popular Indian cinema.
Aoife
Leahy succeeded Maureen O’Connor
as Editor for Ireland in March 2008, and provides a regular Letter from Oscar
Wilde’s island. She has published on Wilde, John Ruskin, Wilkie Collins and
the Victorian artist Noel Paton. She is currently working on a book examining
Dorothy L. Sayers’ use of Victorian authors in explaining Modernism to her
readers. She has taught English Literature in UCD, UL and IADT in recent
years. She is President of the National Association of English Studies, the 
narratives of detection and marginal
experiences.
Claire
Charlotte McKechnie is currently completing her PhD at the University of
Edinburgh in the field of Victorian Gothic literature and nineteenth-century
(medical) science, examining the animal ‘other’ in the works of writers such
as Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson, and H. G. Wells. She completed a
Masters in Victorian Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2007 and in
2005, she gained a first-class degree in English Literature from the
University of Hull. Claire edits our page devoted to late nineteenth century
reading groups. 
number of articles on a wide range of
subjects including Shakespeare, Luther in English literature, Elizabethan
misogyny, narratology, utopia/dystopia, Smollett, Dickens, George Eliot,
Oscar Wilde, the history of vocabulary, 1890s and modern gay writing, D. H.
Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, modern drama, new Englishes and new literatures in
English, cultural studies, cross-cultural learning. John McRae prepared
the first unexpurgated critical edition of the suppressed novel Teleny
by Oscar Wilde and others (1986/2000), and was Guest Editor of our 
Heather Marcovitch, editor for Canada, teaches Victorian literature and critical theory at Red Deer College in Red Deer, Alberta. She is the author of The Art of the Pose: Oscar Wilde’s Performance Theory (Peter Lang, 2010) and the co-editor of the forthcoming American Remakes of British Television Shows: Transformations and Mistranslations, to be published by Lexington Books. She has also published on Wilde’s fairy tales, Christopher Isherwood, Djuna Barnes, Ella d’Arcy, and James Joyce.
Sandra Mayer, editor for
Austria and German Switzerland, studied English and History at the
universities of Sussex, England, and Graz, Austria, where she submitted her
MA thesis on the impact of scandal on the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in
early twentieth-century England. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik at the
Clare Mendes succeeded Claire O’Callaghan as PR Editor for THE LATCHKEY in August 2010. She writes ‘I’m a second year PhD student at the University of Leicester, studying representations of the New Woman in the late Victorian Woman’s Press. My thesis is focusing on eight women’s periodicals from the 1890s, including Shafts, Woman’s Signal, Young Woman, Woman, Lady’s Realm, Home Notes, Home Chat and Woman at Home. I completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2007 and my Masters in Publishing at University of the Arts, London in 2008. In between completing my Masters and commencing my PhD., I went travelling around Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. I will be teaching undergraduate students Approaches to Literature from October 2010.’
myth in European literature. Her doctoral
thesis (2005, Keio University) was on the stylistic, symbolic, icongraphic
and genetic elements in Hérodias by
Gustave Flaubert. She is the author of several books, on Flaubert, Moreau,
Mallarmé and Wilde; a collection of poems; La genèse de la danse de Salomé—L’ « Appareil
scientifique » et la symbolique polyvalente dans Hérodias de Flaubert
(Keio University Press, 2006, in French) and The Genesis of Salome’s Dance–Flaubert, Moreau, Mallarmé, Wilde
(Keio University Press, 2008, in Japanese; with Chronology of adaptations of
the Hérodias-Salomé myth in French, 
work of Wilde and Proust. She is
currently working on her Doctoral thesis at the English Department of the
University of Turku, Finland, where her work is supervised by Adjunct Prof.
Lydia Kokkola. Orhanen's thesis examines the treatment of aesthetic
experience in Wilde's criticism, with a special emphasis on how the paradoxes
in Wilde's texts contribute to formation of aesthetic reception strategies
and how paradoxes may enhance the reader's aesthetic understanding. In the
autumn 2009, Orhanen moved to King's College London as an Osk. Huttunen
Foundation grantee, to embark on research on the role of the reader in Marcel
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
Her work at King's is supervised by Prof. Patrick ffrench and Dr Johanna
Malt. 
Lene
Østermark-Johansen 
to work as a Research Fellow at the
Department of Modern Languages of the University of La Rioja. In 1999 she
wrote her M.A. dissertation, entitled ‘The Role of the Reader in Oscar
Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray’, and she also obtained a BA
degree in German. She received her Ph.D. in English Philology Cum Laude
at the University of La Rioja in December 2002. Her doctoral dissertation,
which was entitled ‘The Role of the Reader in Oscar Wilde’s Narrative and
Dramatic Works’, constituted a critical approach to Oscar Wilde's creative
writings from the hypothesis that they called upon the active participation
of the reader in the construction of their meaning. It explored the literary
strategies which Wilde employs to impel the reader to participate actively in
the construction of the meaning of his narrative and dramatic works and cast
light upon the social criticism which is derived from them.
London and her PhD and current research
is on Sean O’Casey. Michelle has also worked as a researcher on the
PeoplePlay project at the 
Charlotte
Ribeyrol is a Senior Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) at the Sorbonne
University in Paris. Nineteenth century English literature and painting are
the focus of both her teaching and her research. Her doctoral thesis focused
on the Hellenism of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, John Addington
Symonds, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, and Albert Moore. She has also
worked in partnership with the Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
department of the Louvre Museum. Her publications include articles on
Swinburne’s poetics and on fin de siècle visual culture. She joined
our 
B.J.
Robinson earned her Bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University in
Connecticut and her Master's and Ph. D. degrees at the University of
Virginia. In September 2008 she joined us as Editor of our page ‘
David Charles Rose has
overall responsibility for the development of the project, and particular
concern with THE OSCHOLARS
itself. He was educated at 
Rita Severi is one of
our three Editors for Italy, with the responsibility of reporting on
fin-de-siècle affairs from that country. Professor Severi teaches in
the Department of 
Gothenburg, Sweden, majoring in English
and German literature. In the autumn of 2007, again at the
University of Gothenburg, she defended her master's thesis entitled
‘Thomas Pynchon’s Decadent Romance: Life Against Death in ‘The Crying of Lot
49’’.
pure artistry and instrumentality when
offering his own account of the possibilities and supremacy of the novel as a
form, and also wants to consider the extent to which Virginia Woolf extended
into a new age of literary experiment that same mediation between social
utility and aesthetic perfectionism which is emblematized by those
late-Victorian figures in my project. Her aim is thus to consider how
each writer negotiates creativity and intellectual integrity through their
awareness of public modes of reception. Overall, her doctoral research will
build upon with recent scholarship in the field by rethinking the periodicity
and capaciousness of Aestheticism itself.
Florina Tufescu is Editor
for Romania and project administrator for the forthcoming open access critical edition of Wilde's works – Project WILLOW. She can read correspondence in Romanian, French and Swedish and she would be happy to hear from potential contributors to fin-de-siècle studies in Romania. Dr Tufescu is currently Visiting Lecturer at Uppsala University, where she teaches a range of undergraduate courses. Her first book, entitled Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art Over Ego (Irish Academic Press 2008), traces a tradition of provocative, neo-classical intertextuality from Poe to Ackroyd (via Gide, Borges et. al.) Her current research interests include multiple authorship, literary translation and reception theory, Victorian poetry and modern and contemporary drama.
Anna Vaninskaya is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She received a D. Phil. in English Literature from Oxford (Hertford College), and then held a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship with the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group (2006-2010) and a Junior Research Fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge. Her book William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 is published by Edinburgh UP (2010). She is in charge of listing publications and commissioning reviews for us on Victorian and Edwardian Anarchism and Socialism. She has also edited (2010) a 
children's and young adult literature,
Victorian novel, and fantasy. She is the author of many articles in the field
of fantasy literature, including pieces about the masochistic religious
imagery of George MacDonald, the ecocritical aspects of Charles Kingsley's The
Water-Babies, the gothic imaginary in Virginia Hamilton's Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush, the religiously orthodox iconoclasm of Philip
Pullman, and the sexually transgressive holiness of Oscar Wilde's fairy
tales. She edited for THE OSCHOLARS
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