Mary Wilson Carpenter received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1983 and is currently Professor Emerita from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She has also been cross-appointed with the Women’s Studies Institute at Queen’s. Her primary fields are Victorian studies, feminist theory and gender studies. Her publications include Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality and Religion in the Victorian Market (2003); George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History (1986); as well as numerous articles in Victorian studies and feminist criticism. She has served on both US and Canadian professional committees: the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, 1987-90, co-chair 1989-90; MLA Delegate Assembly Regional Member for New England and Eastern Canada, 1993-95; MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, 1996; and Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Executive, Member-at-Large, 1993-1995. She is currently a member of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) program committee, and served as site coordinator for the NVSA conference at Queen’s in April, 2002. She is also currently a member of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (VSAO) conference committee. Her current research project is on Victorian women writers’ representation of national masculinities.