Helen Groth is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (Oxford University Press, 2003), recent articles on aspects of optical illusion in ELH (Spring 2007), Victorian Studies (Winter 2007) and South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 2009) and is currently completing a monograph on optical illusion and the Victorian cultural imagination. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Paul Sheehan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Modernism, Narrative and Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and the editor of Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition (Praeger, 2003). He has recently published essays on screen animals and Samuel Beckett and cruelty, and is currently completing a historical poetics of transgression in twentieth-century literature and film.
