Dr. Lesley Peterson

Lesley Peterson has her PhD in English from the University of Alberta, Canada. She currently teaches and researches in the areas of early modern drama, early modern and eighteenth-century literature, and juvenilia at the University of North Alabama. She has co-edited several volumes for the Juvenilia Press, including Three Mini-Dramas by Jane Austen, and she has directed productions of dramatic juvenilia by both Austen and Tennyson. She has also published on Austen’s juvenilia in Persuasions On-Line. Her most recent publication is a scholarly edition of The Mirror of the Worlde (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2012): a translation from the French of the texts accompanying the maps in an atlas of the world which was completed by Elizabeth Tanfield (later Cary) in 1597. She is currently working, in collaboration with a colleague and some graduate students, on an edition of Tennyson’s juvenile drama, The Devil and the Lady.  She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Caroline Berbrayer Memorial Award, the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence (Canada), the Peter F. Drucker Award for Outstanding Innovation, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Writer’s Grant, and the Laura Harrison Professorship at the University of North Alabama.

Peterson has also held positions at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, the University of Alberta, and the University of Lethbridge. In addition to her university teaching and university publications, she also serves as a copy editor and developmental editor for the University of Alberta Press.

Dr. Jeffrey Bibbee

Jeffrey R. Bibbee has his PhD in History from King’s College, University of London.  His BA and MA in History are from Auburn University.  He currently researches and teaches in the areas of modern British history with a focus on religion and public policy.  Additionally, he teaches and researches in public education policy and implementation.  Bibbee’s presentations and publications have been in the realm of public health, modern Britain, modern Russia, and religious history at seminars and conferences at the University of London, University of Oxford, WCSVS, MACBS, AAH and University of Rennes 2.  His work on Wiliam Birkbeck is in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and a monograph length work on the subject is forthcoming.  

Bibbee currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of History and Political Science at the University of North Alabama.