Juliet McMaster
As a descendant of the Victorian painter James Clarke Hook, Juliet McMaster has access to scattered family archives, and collections of his paintings, that give her unique information on his professional and domestic doings. Soon to be published by the University of Alberta Press is her edition of Rosalie Hook's diaries, Woman Behind the Painter: The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs James Clarke Hook. She is working towards a full critical biography.
As a Victorianist of long standing, she has published books on Thackeray, Trollope, and Dickens; and her special interest in the English novel has resulted in books on Jane Austen, and, most recently, on Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004). She is co-editor with Edward Copeland of The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, and she is the editor-illustrator of Jane Austen's The Beautifull Cassandra. She has published dozens of articles on such figures as Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Emily and Anne Bronte, and George Eliot. She is also the founder of the Juvenilia Press, which publishes scholarly editions of the childhood writings of recognized authors. Soon to emerge from Cambridge University Press is her collection, co-edited with Christine Alexander, on The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf.
On her retirement from teaching after a long career as a Professor of English at the University of Alberta, she changed disciplines from English literature to art history. And her family connection with James Clarke Hook and his painter sons (she is the grand-daughter of his second son, Bryan Hook) made a study of the Hooks a happy choice. She has now assembled a large collection of reproductions of the Hooks' works, a collection of Hook letters, and her own archive of information on his career and his connections with other artists of his day.
Juliet McMaster is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Killam Research Fellowship, and the Molson Prize in the Humanities, besides other honours.
Elizabeth Gusnoski
Elizabeth is a graduate student at the University of Alberta, where she is working to complete her MA in Humanities Computing and English. She has several years of experience as a print and web designer, and is interested in print culture, electronic texts, and using technology to create useful resources for Humanities scholarship.
Lindsey Whitson
Lindsey is also a graduate student at the University of Alberta, working on her MA in English Literature. Aside from her RA work with Juliet McMaster, her interests involve the representation of gender in Anglo-Saxon poetry, biography studies, and the relationship between novels and their film adaptations.