Issue 16.3 (Winter 2020)

Contributor Biographies

Dr. Ka Yan Lam is an Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature Studies at BNU-HKBU United International College. She received her PhD in English from City University of Hong Kong. She conducted a comparative doctoral research on haunting and female agency in the supernatural fiction written by Enchi Fumiko, Ōba Minako, Florence Marryat, and Vernon Lee. She is interested in gender studies, feminist criticism, contemporary fantasy literature, and fairy-tale retellings.

Janice Schroeder is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the co-editor, with Barbara Leckie, of an edition of Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (Broadview 2019). Other recent work has appeared in BRANCH, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Women’s Writing.

Annmarie Steffes is an Assistant Professor of English and the Writing Center Director at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she teaches courses in literature, composition, and editing. Her research focuses on the late nineteenth-century verse drama, Victorian theater and drama, book studies, and women’s writing. Her work has also appeared in Victorian Poetry.

Lauren Wilwerding is a Lecturer in the English Department at Tufts University. She has published essays in journals including Dickens Studies Annual, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, and Persuasions. Her book project Plotting Singleness: The Unmarried Woman, Vocation, and the Form of the Novel, 1750-1920 considers the history and literature of the nineteenth-century single woman.

Rae X. Yan is an Assistant Professor of British Literature from 1830-1900 at the University of Florida. Her published articles include “Robert Louis Stevenson as Philosophical Anatomist” in English Literature in Transition and “Dickens’s Wild Child: Nurture and Discipline after Peter the Wild Boy” in Dickens Studies Annual. She is currently at work on a book project about anatomizing as a joint literary and scientific practice during the Victorian era.