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To vote, send an e-mail with your selections to navsa@purdue.edu. All votes must be received by March 9, 2009. 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. For the position of Executive Secretary on the Executive Council (five-year term), Sean Grass (Texas Tech U) is running unopposed.
1. ADVISORY BOARD CANADIAN (OPEN CATEGORY)
Choose ONE of the following three:
Alison Chapman
Alison Chapman received her BA (Hons) from Oxford and her PhD from Glasgow (where she was the Snell Newlands Scholar), has taught at the Universities of Sheffield Hallam, Dundee and Glasgow, and is now Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, BC. She has held fellowships at Princeton University's Special Collections and at the Armstrong Browning Library in Texas, and has enjoyed research grants from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and SSHRC. Her research interests range widely within Victorian literature and culture, but with a special focus on poetry, women's writing, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Anglo-Italian relations. Publications include Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Artists and Writers in Italy (co-edited with Jane Stabler), The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (co-edited with Richard Cronin and Antony H. Harrison), Victorian Women Poets (ed.), The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti, and A Rossetti Family Chronology (co-authored with Joanna Meacock). She hopes soon to complete a monograph on Italian salons, spiritualism, and politics, Networking the Nation: Victorian Women's Poetry and the Risorgimento, and turn to a new SSHRC-sponsored project on Victorian Europe provisionally entitled Channel Crossings.
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto and member of the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (Ryerson and York). A past president of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (VSAO), she is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Rossetti Archive, RaVoN, NINES (Victorian division), and the William Morris Society Journal. She also serves as a member of the Canada Research Chair College of Reviewers and is a contributing member to the Editorial Committee for The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She is author of Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History (Ohio UP, 2002) and The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books (Scolar, 1995), and co-editor, with Mary Arseneau and Antony H. Harrison, of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts (Ohio UP 1999). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian visual-verbal relations and publishing history, including "Poetry and Illustration" in the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002) and "Christina Rossetti" in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites (ed. Elizabeth Prettejohn). She is co-editor, with Dennis Denisoff, of The 1890s Online and its digital edition of The Yellow Book (in progress). She is currently completing a monograph entitled "Poetry, Pictures and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture."
Carolyn Lesjak
Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, where she is currently also serving as Graduate Chair. Prior to coming to SFU, she was Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College, where she taught since 1996. She is the author of Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Duke 2006) as well as numerous articles and contributions to literary encyclopedias and studies of the Victorian novel, such as the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel and Novel Theory and The Cambridge History of the English Novel (both forthcoming). Her work has appeared in ELH, Novel, Studies in the Literary Imagination, Utopian Studies, and a number of collected volumes of essays, including On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Her current book project examines the character and ethics of Victorian object relations and reassesses the related critical paradigms of new historicism, thing theory, and studies in material culture.
2. ADVISORY BOARD AMERICAN (OPEN CATEGORY)
Choose ONE of the following three:
Alison Booth
Alison Booth is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, having earned her Ph.D. at Princeton University. Her teaching and research have ranged widely in Victorian and modern literature, studies in women and gender, and narrative theory, with a current focus on biography, publishing history, and transatlantic cultural formations. She is the author of How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004) and the resulting digital project, Collective Biographies of Women, as well as Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992). She edited Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (1993) and the Longman Cultural Edition of Wuthering Heights (2009), and she co-edits the Norton Introduction to Literature (tenth edition in progress). Her articles have appeared in Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, and various other journals and collections, and she serves of the advisory board of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and Life-Writing Annual. In 2005, she co-organized the NAVSA conference at the University of Virginia. She has served as the president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and has chaired several Modern Language Association committees. In addition to digital research affiliated with NINES, she is writing a book on the genre of "homes and haunts" and the rise of house museums and literary pilgrimage in Britain and North America.
Daniel Hack
Daniel Hack is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of a book, The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel (Virginia, 2005), and articles in such journals as Critical Inquiry, ELH, Novel, and Victorian Studies. His essay on teaching Bleak House and The Bondwoman's Narrative appears in the new Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House (MLA, 2009). Hack's research and teaching center on the history of the novel, book history, and critical methods, with a particular interest in the ways texts seek to situate themselves in time and space, and the ways they get resituated at different times and in different places. He is currently working on two book-length projects: one on the uses of Victorian literature in nineteenth-century African American and antislavery print culture, and the other on revenge and modernity in the nineteenth-century novel. Smaller projects include a chapter on "the last Victorian novel" for the Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel and research into a previously unknown early story by Wilkie Collins, which Hack recently discovered.
Stephen Arata
Stephen Arata is the Mayo NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Publications include Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1995), editions of News from Nowhere (2002), New Grub Street (2007), The Time Machine (2009), and a range of essays and book chapters on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. With Penny Fielding and Richard Dury, he is General Co-Editor of the new Edinburgh University Press edition of The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, projected for 38 volumes. Edited works in progress include the Blackwell Companion to the Novel (with J. Paul Hunter and Jennifer Wicke) and Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems for the Rice University Press digital series. Forthcoming work includes an essay on Marius the Epicurean and an essay on the Victorian fin de siècle for the new Cambridge History of English Literature. He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Foundation. He is currently completing a manuscript on the varieties of Victorian close reading.
ADVISORY BOARD: ART HISTORY
Choose ONE of the following three:
Anne Helmreich
Anne Helmreich is Associate Professor of Art History and Director, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently on the board of Midwestern Victorian Studies Association and the Historians of British Art. She has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute Library, The Yale Center for British Art, the Huntington Library, Museum, and Gardens, and the Harry Ransom Center. She is the author of several interdisciplinary studies including The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, winner of the Historians of British Art prize for best book on a post-1800 topic) and essays on cartoons of Britannia featured in Punch, George Cruikshank's urban imagery, and John Everett Millais' pure landscapes. Her current work is a book-length manuscript on the relationship of art and science in nineteenth-century British painting and photography as well as studies of the rise of the commercial, international art market in London, c. 1850-1920.
Morna O'Neill
Morna O'Neill is Mellon Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in art history at Yale University (2004), followed by a postdoctoral research associate position in the Research Department at the Yale Center for British Art. That position carried wide responsibilities that included the scholarly programming at the Center, conceiving and developing research projects, and administrative duties. O'Neill has published articles in Victorian Literature and Culture and The Journal of Design History, and she is the author of 'Art and Labour's Cause is One': Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880-1915 (University of Manchester, 2008), the catalogue of the exhibition she curated at the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester. A monograph on Crane's work within the context of the Aesthetic movement, the Arts and Crafts movement, and socialist politics, is forthcoming. Other research projects include the display of decorative arts at international exhibitions (1889-1911) and the impact of evolutionary theories (especially as popularized by Herbert Spencer) on design in the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Jugendstil.
Pamela Fletcher
Pamela Fletcher is Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, with a concentration in 18th- and 19th-century British Art, American Art and Gender Theory. She is the author of Narrating Modernity: The British Problem Picture 1895-1914 (Ashgate, 2003) and has published articles on the language of commerce in Victorian and Edwardian art criticism, the significance of gossip as a mode of artistic reception, and the rise of the commercial art gallery in 19th-century London, in journals including Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Victorian Periodicals Review, the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain and the Oxford Art Journal (forthcoming). Her current work is focused on two related projects. The first is a history of the commercial art gallery in London, which examines the new relationships between artists, objects, dealers, critics and viewers that such spaces created. The second is a study of mid-Victorian narrative painting and its reception within the exhibition culture of the Royal Academy, thinking about narrative art in relation to emotion, gossip, play and social networks. She is a member of the Board of the Historians of British Art, chair of the Publication and Travel Grant Committee for HBA, and serves on the program committee for the Northeast Victorian Studies Association.