The Female Fantastic (PDF)

Lizzie Harris McCormick holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College/ SUNY. She explores women's fantastic literary narratives of artistic creation during the late-nineteenth century, especially where they challenged turn-of-the-century British psychological theories of creative imagination and gender. Her scholarship appears in Latchkey, Henry James e-Journal, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, and The Fantastic of the Fin de Siecle.

Jennifer Mitchell earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, New York, she is working on a manuscript about the critical intersection between sexology, modernism, and masochism. Her scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Bisexuality, Bookbird, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, The Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and various edited collections and she has an article forthcoming in The D.H. Lawrence Review.

Rebecca Soares earned her Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. She is working on a manuscript that examines the nineteenth-century popular practice of spiritualism, transatlantic literature and communication, and print culture. Her work has appeared in Victorian Poetry and Victorian Periodical Review and is forthcoming in Women's Writing.