x Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–
a thesis focused on gender and Orientalism, Victorian women’s travel literature
and the history of Britain, Japan, China and Macao in the nineteenth century.
Charlotte Mathieson is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Insti-
tute of Advanced Study. She was awarded her PhD from the Department of
English and Comparative Literary Studies in March 2011. Her research focuses
on mobility, nation and space in the mid-nineteenth century novel, including
works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot.
Lynsey McCulloch is a Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of Eng-
lish and Languages at Coventry University, prior to which she was awarded her
PhD from Anglia Ruskin University. Her research is primarily focused on early
modern literature, with an interest in fenland literature. Her publications include
Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation
and Performance (2013), edited with Sarah Annes Brown and Robert I. Lublin.
Katherine F. Montgomery is nearing completion of her PhD in English at the
University of Iowa, focusing on the long nineteenth century in Britain, particu-
larly maritime cultures, as they relate to both imperialism and transatlantic trade.
Barry Sloan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton.
His current research draws upon the periodical press and the work of agricul-
tural writers and cultural commentators to examine the anxieties and debates
precipitated by changes in English rural life and labour in the second half of the
nineteenth century. His publications include Th e Pioneers of Anglo-Irish Fiction
1800–1850 (1986) and Writers and Protestantism in the North of Ireland: Heirs
to a Damnation? (2000).
Samantha Walton is nearing completion of a PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Her thesis focuses on golden age crime fi ction and addresses relationships between
popular writing, psycholog y and modernism between 1920 and c. 1945. She has
published research on intersections between Scottish modernist writing of the
early twentieth century and the nineteenth-century middlebrow novel.