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Helena Gurfinkel Helena Gurfinkel received her PhD in English from Tufts University. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Victorian literature, critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of articles on Oscar Wilde, J.R. Ackerley, Anthony Trollope, and Alan Hollinghurst, among others. Her book manuscript considers non-traditional fatherhood in Victorian and twentieth-century British literature. Her other interests include psychoanalytic theory, Diaspora studies, and masculinity studies. She is a co-editor of UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre.
Stuart Eagles Stuart Eagles edits the newsletter of the Guild of St George, The Companion, and is Secretary of The Ruskin Society. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Ruskin Review and Bulletin. In 2011 his doctoral thesis was published in the Oxford Historical Monographs series as After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870-1920. He lectures frequently and has written many scholarly papers. He is currently working on Ruskin's reception in Russia (and other European countries), and his study, Ruskin and Tolstoy (The Ruskin Lecture 2010) has been published.