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.
Alison Chapman’s DVPP editorial notes are signed “AC”.
Contact DVPP by emailing Alison Chapman at alisonc [at] uvic.ca.
Kaitlyn Fralick is a PhD student in the Department of English at Queen’s University.
She completed her MA (with a
concentration in nineteenth-century studies) at the University of Victoria and her
Honours BA (with distinction) at Ryerson
University. She has worked as an indexer, encoder, and researcher on the Digital Victorian
Periodical Poetry project since
2018.
Kailey Fukushima is a dual master’s student in Archival Studies and Library and Information
Studies at the University of
British Columbia. She earned her Master of Arts in English from the University of
Victoria in 2020.
Kailey has worked as an indexer, encoder, and researcher at Digital Victorian Periodical
Poetry since May 2018. Her DVPP
editorial notes are signed “KF”.
Sonja Pinto is an English MA student at the University of Victoria, where she also
completed her Honours BA in 2020. In addition to their work on DVPP, Sonja also works 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. During their work on DVPP, Sonja has worked as an indexer and encoder. They joined the project as an RA in
September 2018. Sonja’s editorial notes are signed “SP”.
Charlotte Clar is a fourth-year History Student at the University of Victoria. She
is also the Vice-President of the History
Undergraduate Body. Her research interests include social life in the Victorian and
Tudor era. Her work at Digital Victorian
Periodical Poetry focuses on writing biographies of the poets. Charlotte’s DVPP editorial notes are signed CC.
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.
Denae Dyck recently completed her PhD from the University of Victoria, where she
received the Governor
General’s Gold Medal for outstanding academic record at the doctoral level. Her research
and teaching interests include Victorian
literature and culture, literature and religion/spirituality, and life writing. Her
publications include articles in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, European Romantic
Review, Christianity and Literature, and ARIEL: A Review of International
English Literature, and she is currently at work on a book project entitled Forming Wisdom: Victorian
Hermeneutics and the Literary Imagination. She is a collaborator on the Crafting Communities project on Victorian material culture, and she
co-convenes the Religion and
Spiritualities Caucus of the North American Victorian Studies Association.
Scott is a third-year English Honours student at the University of Victoria. Scott
is also an editor for The Albatross English Undergraduate Journal and serves as a
board member for the English Students’ Association.
Kylee-Anne Hingston was a research assistant for the Database of Victorian Periodical
Poetry from 2012 to 2015. She is now an
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Thomas More College, University
of Saskatchewan.
Veronika Larsen will complete her undergraduate degree by April 2019. She plans to
enter graduate school in fall 2019. Prior
to working for Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry, she worked as a research assistant
for the Cognitive Decision Science Lab,
and the Cognition and Action Lab at the University of Victoria. Her current research
focuses on the evolution of insanity in
Victorian era literature.
Samantha MacFarlane worked as a research assistant on the DVPP from 2012 to 2014. She assisted with indexing and scanning poems from The Penny Magazine, All the Year Round, and Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal; helped with identifying authors of unsigned poems in All the Year Round; and completed TEI encoding on selected poems. She received her PhD in English, specializing
in Victorian poetry, from the University of Victoria in 2019. She is now Co-Editor
in Chief of the journal KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies and Special Projects Administrative Officer at the University of Victoria Libraries.