Notes on contributor
Daniel A. Novak is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-editor with James Catano of Masculinity Lessons: Rethinking Men’s and Women’s Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2011). He is currently at work on two book projects: Victoria’s Accursed Race analyzes nineteenth-century representations of the Cagots—an ethnic group of mysterious origins and indeterminate race—while Specters of Wilde examines the beginning of Wilde studies in the early twentieth century.