Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Dr. Alison Chapman FRSC 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, Victorians Institute Journal, 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 Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s (Cambridge UP 2025), (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). She is Vice President (2024-2026) of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.

Alison Chapman’s DVPP editorial notes are signed AC.

Contact DVPP by emailing Alison Chapman at alisonc [at] uvic.ca.

Martin Holmes is a programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, specializing in digital editions and XML technologies.

Kaitlyn Fralick is a Ph.D. candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. She joined the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry project as a graduate research assistant in 2018 while completing her M.A. at the University of Victoria. She worked as an indexer, encoder, and researcher on the project from 2018 to 2023 before rejoining DVPP in 2024. Her editorial notes are signed “KAF.”

Kailey Fukushima has a dual master’s degree in Archival Studies and Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Victoria. She worked as an indexer, encoder, and researcher at DVPP from May 2018 to December 2022, and now serves as a Consultant for the project. Her DVPP editorial notes are signed KF.

Denae Dyck is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. She completed her PhD from the University of Victoria, where she received the 2021 Governor General’s Gold Medal for outstanding academic record at the doctoral level. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, poetry and poetics, women’s writing, and religion/spirituality. Her publications include articles in Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, Religions, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, and European Romantic Review. Her first book, Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2024. Denae began working for DVPP as a research assistant in 2019 and currently serves as a research consultant. Her DVPP editorial notes are signed DD.

Narges Montakhabi is a PhD student of Theatre Studies at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Victorian culture, gender studies, politics of identity, philosophy of art, and critical thought. Narges worked as a DVPP RA from September 2021 to June 2022, and joined the team again in September 2023, focusing on the poetry index. Her DVPP editorial notes are signed NM.

Ethan Webb is currently an English Honours student at the University of Victoria, and he has been working on the DVPP project since September 2023. Ethan focuses his studies on both classic literature and film. His work on the project primarily involves indexing and encoding; as of April 2025, he has encoded close to five thousand lines of poetry, comprising around two hundred poems. Ethan’s editorial notes are signed EW.

Heather (she/her) is an English and Philosophy student at the University of Victoria. She has worked with Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry as a Research Assistant since September 2023. Her DVPP editorial notes are signed HD.

Augustine Carmichael (she/they) is an undergraduate student majoring in English and minoring in Art Education at the University of Victoria. She works with DVPP as of October 2023. Her DVPP editorial notes are signed AHC.

Tessa Thevenot is an English MA student from the University of Victoria, with a special interest in Gothic studies and Victorian literature. She is the curator of DVPP’s subcollection, Scottish Poetry Anthology (2025), for which she has transcribed and encoded poetry in DVPP’s dataset. She has also contributed to DVPP’s personography records, utilizing primary sources such as census records, birth certificates, baptism records, travel documentation, and tombstones. Her noteworthy additions were to the records of Sarah Moir Robertson, Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell, Thomas Carstairs Latto, and William Beattie. She worked as an RA (2024-2025). Her editorial notes are signed TNT.

Elissa Frielink is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in English and minoring in art education. She is also a part of the Humanities Scholars Program, which placed her as an intern with DVPP in Fall 2023, and she subsequently worked as an RA in Spring 2024, completing the scanning and indexing of poetry in The Evergreen. She is set to graduate in 2025. Her editorial notes are signed EF.

Elsie Hovey graduated with an MA in English from the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Victorian women’s writing, ecocriticism, and animal studies. She worked as an RA for DVPP from January 2023 to May 2023, focusing on editing figure descriptions.

Thomas is a dual major student in English and Neurobiology at the University of Victoria. He is set to graduate with a Bachelors in Science in April 2023. Thomas has worked as an encoder on the Digital Victorian Poetry Project since October 2022.

Charlotte Clar studied History the University of Victoria as an undergraduate, where she was also Vice-President of the History Undergraduate Body. Her research interests include social life in the Victorian and Tudor era. She worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2020 to June 2022, focusing on researching and writing biographies for the personography. Charlotte’s DVPP editorial notes are signed CC.

Sonja Pinto competed her English MA and Honours BA at the University of Victoria, where she also worked as a Teaching Assistant and Consultant in the Department of English. Her research interests include Victorian fiction and poetry, narratology, trauma studies, and gender and sexuality. Sonja worked as an RA indexer, encoder, and researcher for DVPP from September 2018 to June 2022. Her editorial notes are signed SP.

Scott was an English Honours student at the University of Victoria, serving as an editor for The Albatross English Undergraduate Journal and a board member for the English Students’ Association. He worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2019 to June 2020, focusing on indexing poems. His DVPP editorial notes are signed SCM.

Dr. Tracey El Hajj was a programmer and consultant at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, with specialties in English and Science and Technology studies.

Caley Ehnes received her PhD from the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP from 2012 to 2014, focussing on indexing, researching, and encoding selected poems, and then served in a consulting role in 2018. She is now an English Instructor at the College of the Rockies. Her editorial notes are signed CE.

Joanne was a Masters student in the English Department at the University of Victoria. She worked on indexing poems in the Fall of 2019. Her editorial notes are signed JH.

Josia Snell was an English Honours student at the University of Victoria. He worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2019 to June 2020, focusing on indexing poems. His DVPP editorial notes are signed JS.

Kylee-Anne Hingston was an RA from 2012 to 2015, working on indexing and researching poems. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. Her DVPP editorial notes are signed KH.

Sarah Karlson was a PhD student at the University of Victoria, specializing in Victorian literature and its monsters. She was a DVPP RA from September 2018 to June 2019, and her editorial notes are signed SK.

Veronika Larsen was an English Honours student at the University of Victoria, as well as a research assistant for the Cognitive Decision Science Lab, and the Cognition and Action Lab at the University of Victoria. She worked as a DVPP RA from September 2018 to April 2019, focussing on poetry indexing, and her editorial notes are signed VK.

Chelsea Falconer was an English undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2011 to March 2012.

Sarah Milligan was an MA English student at the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2012 to March 2014, focussing on poetry indexing.

Raya MacKenzie was an English Honours student at the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP in 2012.

Heather Snider was an English Honours student at the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP in 2012.

Mairi Richter was an MA English student at the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2017 to March 2018, focussing on poetry indexing.

Willow Falconer was an MA English student at the University of Victoria, and worked as an RA for DVPP from September 2013 to March 2014, focussing on poetry indexing.