Dr. Alison Chapman (
@alisonfchapman) is Principal Investigator of DVPP and has overall editorial responsibility for the
project. Dr. Chapman is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where
she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Awards for her research
include the UVic Faculty of Humanities Research Excellence Award, the UVic Scottish
Studies Fellowship, and the Boydston Award (from the Association for Documentary Editing).
She is the recipient of grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the
United Kingdom,
as well as fellowships from the Armstrong Browning Library and Princeton University
Library. Dr. Chapman is currently on the editorial board of the Cambridge University
Press series
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture and the academic journals
Victorian Poetry and
Victorian Review. She has published extensively on Victorian poetry, including the monographs
Networking the Nation: British and American Women’s Poetry and Italy, 1830-1870 (Oxford University Press 2015) and
The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti (Palgrave 2001). She is
also the co-author (with Joanna Meacock) of
A Rossetti Family Chronology (Palgrave 2007), and has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, including
(with Richard Cronin and Antony
H. Harrison)
A Companion to Victorian Poetry (Blackwell 2002), (with Jane Stabler)
Unfolding
the South: Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Writers and Artists in Italy (Manchester University Press 2003) and
Victorian Women Poets (Boydell and Brewer
2003). With Caley Ehnes, she co-edited the special journal issue of
Victorian Poetry on
Victorian Periodical Poetry (Spring 2014). Forthcoming publications include an edited collection for Cambridge
University Press on
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s.