Victorian Poetry

Joshua Brorby (jmbh38@missouri.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri, where he teaches courses in Victorian literature and critical theory. His current manuscript in progress focuses on the sensual style of comparative religious writing and the fluidity of identity as imagined in instances of temporary conversion and interreligious imitation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Religion and Literature, Dickens Quarterly, Restoration, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

Christie Debelius (cbdebeli@indiana.edu) is a visiting lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington, where she earned her PhD in 2022. Her interests lie at the intersection of gender and media studies, and her research primarily explores the media theory of Romantic women poets. She is the former managing editor of Victorian Studies.

Dominique Gracia (d.gracia@ucl.ac.uk) is interested in the relationships between writing and art, including adaptation and ekphrasis, and all things that recur again and again, both in poetry and in genre fiction. Her research has been published in Victorian Poetry, Word & Image, and Victorian Popular Fictions, as well as vari ous encyclopedias and dictionaries, and the recent collections Adaptation Before Cinema (2023) and A Study in Sidekicks (2021). She is an administrative director with the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE).

Jack L Hart (jack.hart9@btinternet.com) is a doctoral candidate at Brasenose College, Oxford. His thesis explores how the various ways poems come about can be closely related to what they about, as it examines the processes of revision in the work of several Victorian poets. He has also published on the relationship between poetry and philosophy, as well as classical reception, in The Cambridge Quarterly and Modernism/modernity.

Mark Llewellyn (llewellynm4@cardiff.ac.uk) is a professor of English literature at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. He works on Victorian to twenty-first-century literature and culture, including the field of neo-Victorianism. He is currently completing a book entitled Incestuous Aesthetics in the 1890s.

Fergus McGhee (mcgheefergus@gmail.com) is the Haworth-Campbell Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He has wide-ranging interests in poetry, aesthetics, and the intellectual life of the nineteenth century, and is writing a book about the experience of knowing people in Victorian poetry. His work has appeared in Victorian Studies, The Review of English Studies, The Cambridge Quarterly, and the London Review of Books. His most recent essay, “Pater’s Montaigne and the Selfish Reader,” is forthcoming in Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies (Cambridge University Press).

Allison Scheidegger Reising (allison_scheidegger1@baylor.edu) is a PhD candidate in the English department at Baylor University and is currently writing her dissertation on the Brownings’ classical scholarship. Her work on the modern inheritance of Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue has appeared in the Eudora Welty Review. Most recently, she curated an exhibition entitled Puppy Love: An Exploration of Victorian Pet-owner Relationships for the Armstrong Browning Library.

Andrea Selleri (andrea.selleri@bilkent.edu.tr)worksasanassistantprofessor in the department of English literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. His research is mostly concerned with the interactions between literature, criticism, and philosophy in the long nineteenth century. He is the editor of the third volume of the forthcoming series Literature and Philosophy in nineteenth-Century British Culture (Routledge).