Fionnuala Dillane is a professor at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century print cultures, crime fiction and memory studies. She is co-editor of 5 collections of essays including The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (2016) and Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and Empire (2018) and author of Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (2013), joint winner of the Colby Book Prize. She is vice-president  (2020-22) of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and a member of the ESPRit committee.