Alice Jenkins teaches English at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on Victorian and twentieth-century British literature, particularly literature and science, fantasy and science fiction, and literature and geography. She co-organised two major international conferences, Victorian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century (University of Liverpool, 1996) and The 1830s (University of Salford, 2002), and with Juliet John has co-edited Rereading Victorian Fiction (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000) and Rethinking Victorian Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).