Grace Moore teaches in the English and Theatreprogramme at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Award for LiteraryScholarship, the editor of Pirates and Mutineers of the NineteenthCentury (Ashgate, 2011), and the co-editor (with Andrew Maunder) of Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation(Ashgate, 2004).