Lesa Scholl is Dean of Academic Studies at Emmanuel College, University of Queensland. Her current research centres on the cultural history of hunger and economic fictions. Key publications: Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman (2011), Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. L Scholl, E Morris, and S Gruver Moore (2015), and Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature: Want, Riots, Migration (forthcoming 2016).