Advisory Board Election 2008

To vote, send an e-mail with your selections to navsa@purdue.edu. All votes must be received by February 25, 2008. You may choose ONE person in "Canadian (Open Category)"; ONE person in "American (Open Category)"; and ONE person in "Disciplinary: Non-British/Comparative". Advisory Board positions are for three-year terms.

1. ADVISORY BOARD CANADIAN (OPEN CATEGORY)
choose ONE of the following three

A) Anne Clendinning

Anne Clendinning completed her doctorate in history at McMaster (1999), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of History, at Nipissing University in North Bay with teaching specializations in Victorian and twentieth-century Britain. Her research addresses the history of women and work; gender and class relations; consumption, technology and material culture and imperial exhibitions. Her publications include articles in the Canadian Journal of History, Women's History Review and Histoire Sociale/Social History and a monograph with Ashgate Publications, entitled Demons of Domesticity (2004), a history of women, domestic technology and the Victorian gas industry. She has served on the executive of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario since 2004, and is currently its executive president. Dr. Clendinning is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. She is currently completing a book on the British Empire Exhibition.

B) Joy Dixon

Joy Dixon is an Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where she is also a faculty associate in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Critical Studies in Sexuality Program. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC) and as co-convener of VSAWC's 2001 conference, as a member of NAVSA's Donald Gray Prize Committee, and as a member of the program committee for VSAWC and NAVSA conferences, as well as for the 2008 Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies. She is the author of Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and articles on gender, religion, empire, and sexuality. She is currently working (as co-author) on a second edition of The Thomson Nelson Guide to Writing in History and on a textbook under contract to Broadview Press, tentatively titled Sexuality in Modern Europe. Her current research focuses on the multiple intersections between science, religion, and sexuality in modern Britain.

C) Cannon Schmitt

Cannon Schmitt, Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto and former Secretary-Treasurer of NAVSA, is the author of a book, Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), as well as essays in Victorian Studies, Representations, ELH, Genre, and elsewhere. Co-editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2008), he has recently completed a study of memory, science, and "savages" called "Savage Mnemonics: Victorian South America, Evolutionary Theory, and the Reinvention of the Human." He is beginning work on a new project tentatively titled "Victorian Oceans."

2. ADVISORY BOARD AMERICAN (OPEN CATEGORY)
choose ONE of the following three

A) Andrew Elfenbein

Andrew Elfenbein is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; he is also GLBTQ Scholar in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His book Byron and the Victorians (1995) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book; he has also published Romantic Genius (1999), the Longman Cultural Edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007), and numerous articles on Victorian literature in such journals as PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Modern Language Quarterly. Forthcoming work includes The Rise of English (2008), the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, and a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly. He has received grants and awards from the American Philosophical Society, the Howard Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of British Studies and serves on the advisory boards of SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Genders, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Victorian Board of NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and the Victorian Board of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.

B) Elaine Freedgood

Elaine Freedgood is an Associate Professor of English at New York University, where she teaches Victorian Literature and Culture, and various courses in critical theory, including thing theory. Author of Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge 2000) and The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago 2006) and editor of Nineteenth-Century Factory Production (Oxford 2003), she is now working on Victorian thing culture (as opposed to and in conjunction with commodity culture), and the uncertain distinctions between subjects and objects in nineteenth-century Britain.

C) Lara Kriegel

Lara Kriegel is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami. She received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, where she was a member of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Working Group. Kriegel is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Conference on British Studies; she has also served on selection committees for fellowships and conferences, including the 2008 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Meeting. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and at the Huntington Library, Museum, and Gardens. Kriegel is the author of several interdisciplinary book chapters and articles on Victorian material culture, museums, labor, and imperialism. These include an essay on museum studies that appeared in Victorian Studies (2006) and an article on design copyright in the Journal of British Studies (2004). For her work on copyright, Kriegel received the Donald Gray Prize of the North American Victorian Studies Association. In December 2007, Duke University Press released her book, Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture. Kriegel's ongoing work addresses exhibitionary culture and the literary career of Henry Mayhew; a new project considers Britain and the tropics.

3. ADVISORY BOARD DISCIPLINARY CATEGORY: Non-British or Comparative Literature
choose ONE of the following three

A) Amanda Claybaugh

Amanda Claybaugh is an associate professor in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. A trans-Atlanticist, her research focuses on both Victorian literature and nineteenth-century US literature. She is the author of The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Cornell, 2007), as well as articles in such journals as Victorian Studies and Mark Twain Studies, Novel and The Yale Journal of Criticism; she has also edited Mansfield Park and Uncle Tom's Cabin. She is currently at work on a manuscript that focuses on the place of Reconstruction in postbellum US literature, and she is also writing an essay on "Trollope in America" for The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, as well as a review essay on the renewed attention to liberalism in Victorian studies for The Minnesota Review. A member of the Dickens Universe, Claybaugh has also served for the past three years on the Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference committee; she is currently the program chair for the 2008 NVSA conference, "Victorian Underworlds."

B) Julie Codell

Julie Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University where she is also an affiliate in Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, Women's Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. Her interdisciplinary articles on Victorian culture and India under the Raj have appeared in many scholarly journals in several disciplines, including Victorian Studies, Art History, Biography, Victorian Periodicals Review, Oxford Art Journal, Book History, Dickens Studies Annual, Victorian Poetry, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies and Victorian Review. She has contributed chapters to 28 anthologies and entries to 9 encyclopedias. She wrote The Victorian Artist (Cambridge, 2003) and Images of an Idyllic Past: Photographs of Edward S. Curtis (1988), and edited The Political Economy of Art (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2008), Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema (Blackwell's, 2007), Imperial Co-Histories (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003) and special issues of Victorian Periodicals Review on the 19th-century press in India (2004) and Victorian art and the press (1991). She co-edited (with L. Brake) Encounters in the Victorian Press (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and (with D. S. Macleod) Orientalism Transposed (Ashgate, 1998), now being translated into Japanese (Hosei UP, 2009). She has received grants from the Yale British Art Center and the Harry Ransom Center, and five from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is Vice-President of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western US, on the senior advisory board of Research Society of Victorian Periodicals, and on the editorial boards of Victorian Periodical Reviews, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (which she edited for 5 years), Victorian Review and Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies and on the advisory board of Visual Culture in Britain. She is currently preparing a book on virtuality and material culture in Victorian art and editing Photography and the Imperial Durbars of British India (2009) on the British coronations in Delhi, 1877-1911, a project for which she received fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, Getty Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Huntington Library.

C) Priya Joshi

Priya Joshi is Associate Professor in the English department at Temple University in Philadelphia. Prior to joining Temple in 2005, Joshi was Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught since 1995. Joshi is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003). The book is a cultural history of the consumption and production of the English novel in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It won numerous awards including the Modern Language Association's First Book Prize; the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association; a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; and honorable mention for the SHARP Book History Prize. Joshi is currently writing on the social lives of nineteenth-century public libraries in an era of globalization and completing a book-length project entitled Crime and Punishment: Nationalism and Public Fantasy in Bollywood Cinema in which she studies popular Hindi film and the fabrication of national identities in postcolonial India. The volume is something of a sequel to In Another Country in its exploration of popular forms, public cultures, and postcolonial modernities in South Asia.