PAUL FYFE, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2009; B.A. Wake Forest University, 1998), specializes in Victorian literature and culture. His current work centers on accidents and chance as agents of changing epistemologies and cultural practices in nineteenth-century England, particularly in its metropolitan contexts. His research interests include print culture and media history, history of science and technology, urban studies, Victorian museums and exhibitions, and experimental poetries.

Having worked at the hypermedia Rossetti Archive and NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), Dr. Fyfe is also pursuing projects in data mining and search retrieval systems. He joins the History of Text Technologies program to explore the linkages of nineteenth-century media culture and contemporary digital humanities.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• "The Random Selection of Victorian New Media." Victorian Periodicals Review 42.1 (Spring 2009): 1-23.
• Online edition of "Mrs. Holmes Grey" by William Michael Rossetti. The Rossetti Archive. Ed. Jerome McGann. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/wmrossetti014.raw.html

SELECTED HONORS

• NINES Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2009
• Rosemary VanArsdel Prize for best graduate paper, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2008
• NAVSA Graduate Award for best paper presented at the annual conference, 2007
• Thomas J. Griffis Prize for best essay by a graduate student in English, University of Virginia, 2007
• Bradley Fellow, 2005-2007
• English Department Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2002-2007