Joseph Valente

Joseph Valente is UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo. He is author and editor of several books, most recently The Myth of Manliness in Irish Nationalist Culture, 1880–1922. He is also editor of the annotated edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker and (with Marjorie Howes) of Yeats and Afterwords: Christ, Culture, and Crisis. Margot Gayle Backus holds a John and Rebecca Moores Professorship in the Department of English at the University of Houston. She is author of The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality and Child Sacrifice in the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order and of Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars.