Members of the Executive

President
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Leighton | Department of English | University of Victoria
mleighto@uvic.ca

Mary Elizabeth Leighton is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. She is co-editor of The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1900 (2012) and a member of the Victorian Review editorial team. Her work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, Reading Victorian Illustration 1855-1875, The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction, The Blackwell Companion to Sensation Fiction, Dickens in Context, Victorian Animal Dreams, and Victorian Literary Mesmerism. With Lisa Surridge, she is co-writing a SSHRC-funded book on Victorian illustrated serial fiction, 1859-75.

Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. Ryan Stephenson | Department of English | Douglas College
stephensonr@douglascollege.ca

Past President
Dr. Kristen Guest | Department of English | University of Northern British Columbia
kguest@unbc.ca

Kristen Guest is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia and past president of VSAWC. Her research on nineteenth-century theatre and popular culture has appeared in such journals as Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Studies in Romanticism. She is currently at work on a SSHRCC funded monograph that focuses on the police detective in Victorian fiction.

Member At Large
Dr. Eddy Kent | Department of English | University of Alberta
ejkent@ualberta.ca

Member At Large
Dr. Kristin Mahoney | Department of English | Western Washington University
Kristin.Mahoney@wwu.edu

Kristin Mahoney is an associate professor in the English Department at Western Washington University. Her teaching and research interests include British aestheticism, Decadence, and Victorian poetry. She has published articles on Vernon Lee, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the national politics of collecting in Criticism, Victorian Studies, English Literature in Transition, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and her scholarly edition of Baron Corvo’s Hubert’s Arthur was published by Valancourt Books. She is currently working on a project on the persistence of late-Victorian aestheticism in the early-twentieth century.

Member at Large
Dr. Daniel Martin | Department of English | Wilfred Laurier University
dmartin@wlu.ca

Member at Large
Dr. Vanessa Warne | Department of English | University of Manitoba
warnevk@cc.umanitoba.ca

Vanessa Warne is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. Her current research project examines the history of blindness and literacy in nineteenth-century Britian.

Victorian Review Managing Editor
Dr. Lisa Surridge | Department of English | University of Victoria
lsurridg@uvic.ca

Lisa Surridge is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Ohio UP, 2005); co-editor (with Richard Nemesvari) of M.E. Braddon’s sensation novel Aurora Floyd (Broadview, 1998); and co-editor wit Mary Elizabeth Leighton of the Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1900 (2012) Her articles and reviews have appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Dickens Studies Annual, Victorian Review, Women’s Writing,Victorians Institute Journal, University of Toronto Quarterly, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. With Mary Elizabeth Leighton, she is co-writing a book on Victorian illustrated serial fiction.

Graduate Student Representative
Melissa Berry | Department of History in Art | University of Victoria
mbberry@uvic.ca

Graduate Student Representative

Jillian Richardson| Department of English | University of Alberta
jjrichar@ualberta.ca

Webmaster
Caley Ehnes | Department of English | University of Victoria
cehnes@uvic.ca

Caley Ehnes is a PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation research focuses on the poetics and form of popular, periodical poetry from the 1860s. As part of her work on periodical poetry, Caley is the lead RA for the Victorian Poetry Network’s Database of Periodical Poetry. An article based on her study of the reformulation of love and nature poetry into devotional texts in Good Words will be published in a forthcoming issue of Victorian Periodicals Review.