Advisory Board and Executive Council Election 2006

To vote, send an e-mail with your selections to navsa@purdue.edu. All votes must be received by March 22, 2006. You may choose ONE person in "Canadian (Open Category)"; ONE person in "American (Open Category)"; and ONE person in "Disciplinary/Art History". Advisory Board positions are for three-year terms; Executive Council positions are for five-year terms.

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

A) Jason Camlot

Jason Camlot is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the English Department at Concordia University.  He received an M.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. from Stanford.  Since his arrival at Concordia in 1999, he has been the recipient of FQRSC and SSHRC fellowships. His articles on Victorian topics have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Victorian Periodicals Review, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Signatures, Book History and ELH.  Two books are soon forthcoming: a monograph, Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (with Ashgate), and an edited collection of essays, Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (with Véhicule Press).  He is also the author of two collections of poems, The Animal Library (DC 2000) and Attention All Typewriters (DC 2005).

B) Richard Dellamora

Richard Dellamora is affiliated with the departments of English and Cultural Studies at Trent University as well as with the graduate program and Centre for Theory, Culture, and Politics. He has published a number of works including Masculine Desire and Victorian Sexual Dissidence, an edited collection of essays. His most recent book, Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in September, 2004. In current and forthcoming articles in NLH, ELH and Nineteenth-Century Studies, Dellamora is continuing his study of the ethic of the neighbor and ethics of friendship in Victorian fictional and nonfictional prose plus the formation of period-concepts in the work of early twentieth-century female writers such as May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf.

C) Lisa Surridge

Lisa Surridge teaches Victorian literature at the University of Victoria, Canada. A past president of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, she is a convenor for the 2007 NAVSA conference in Victoria as well as the co-editor of Canada's only Victorian Studies journal, Victorian Review. She is author of Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Ohio UP, 2005), co-editor of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd (Broadview, 1998), and author of articles and reviews in Victorian Literature and Culture, Dickens Studies Annual, Victorians Institute Journal, Women's Writing, University of Toronto Quarterly, Victorian Review, Brontë Society Transactions, Victorian Newsletter, and Carlyle Studies Annual. She has also contributed to the MLA Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Wuthering Heights (forthcoming, 2006) and Victorian Animal Dreams, eds. Deborah Morse and Martin Danahay (forthcoming 2006). She is currently writing a book on Edith Nesbit's serial fiction and co-editing an anthology of Victorian non-fiction prose.

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

A) Anna Clark

Anna Clark is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota where she is currently the Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities. She edits the Journal of British Studies. Clark is the author of Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845 (1987), The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995), Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004), and co-editor, with Terry Brotherstone and Kevin Whelan, of These Fissured Isles: Ireland, Scotland and British History, 1798-1848 (2005). She has published numerous articles in the fields of nineteenth-century gender and working-class history and the history of sexuality, most recently "Wild Workhouse Girls in Nineteenth-Century Ireland," in the Journal of Social History, and "Twilight Moments" in the Journal of the History of Sexuality.

B) James Epstein

James Epstein teaches modern British history at Vanderbilt University. He has authored several books on popular politics in 19th-century Britain, including The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Movement, l832-l842, Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850, and most recently In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain. He is presently working on a project entitled "Politics of Colonial Sensation," concerning Britain and the West Indies in the age of revolution. He was formerly co-editor of Journal of British Studies.

C) Erika Rappaport

Erika Rappaport is Associate Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching interests include modern British and European gender history, urban cultures and the history of consumer cultures within the metropole and the empire. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1993 and has published Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End (Princeton University Press, 2000). She has also published a variety of articles in The Journal of British Studies, History Workshop, and Gender and History. Chapters have also appeared in Victoria de Grazia's collection The Sex of Things, and other collections such as Meanings of Modernity: Britain from the Late-Victorian Era to World War II, Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, and Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life. She is currently working on a book on tea consumption and British domestic and imperial identities, tentatively titled, Tea Parties: Britishness, Imperial Legacies and Global Cultures.

3. ADVISORY BOARD DISCIPLINARY CATEGORY: ART HISTORY
choose ONE of the following three

A) Tim Barringer

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. He has published widely on Victorian art and culture, most recently Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (2005). This book is really about Ruskin. His interests include Victorian painting (Reading the Pre-Raphaelites, 1998; Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity, co-edited with Elizabeth Prettejohn, 1998) and American art of the same period (American Sublime, co-authored with Andrew Wilton, 2002). He has also published on colonialism (Colonialism and the Object, co-edited with Tom Flynn, 1997), and is co-curator, with Gillian Forrester, of a forthcoming exhibition 'Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds'. He was a Getty Scholar in 2004-5 where, despite flak from hardline modernists, he soldiered on with the manuscript of a new book Art and Music in Britain, 1837-1977.

B) Susan Casteras

Susan Casteras received her Ph.D. in 1977 from Yale University, where she served for many years as Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art and taught in the History of Art Department. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she has written more than seventy books, essays, articles, and reviews, primarily on Victorian and 19th-century art. She has also lectured extensively at conferences and symposia in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.,including at the National Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, and Victoria & Albert Museum. A consultant to numerous foundations and organizations in the U.S. and abroad, she currently serves on the advisory boards of several programs and periodicals, such as Nineteenth-Century Studies; Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Victorian Literature and Culture; 19th-Century Magazine; and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. As Professor of Art History at the University of Washington, she enjoys teaching and mentoring undergrad and grad students interested in 19th-century visual culture.

C) Julie Codell

Julie Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University. Her interdisciplinary articles on Victorian culture and India under the Raj have appeared in many scholarly journals (e.g., Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Art History, J of Pre-Raphaelite Studies [which she edited for 4 years], J of Victorian Culture, Book History, Oxford Art J), 20 anthologies, and 7 encyclopedias. She wrote The Pre-Raphaelites (2008), The Victorian Artist (2003), edited Genre, Gender, Race, World Cinema (2006), Imperial Co-Histories (2003) and special issues of Victorian Periodicals Review on the 19th-century press in India (2004) and Victorian art and the press (1991), and co-edited Encountering the Victorian Periodical Press (2004) and Orientalism Transposed (1998), now being translated into Japanese (2007). She is currently editing a book on colonial photography and preparing a study of Delhi coronation durbars, for which she received fellowships from American Institute of Indian Studies, NEH, and the Huntington Library.