Dr Jane Ford (Project Lead) is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She specialises in late nineteenth-century writing and literary culture and has a particular interest in economic discourses and ideas. Her first monograph, Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1884-1914: Vampiric Enterprise was published by Routledge in August 2024. She is also co-editor of two collections of essays: Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge 2016) and Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays (Routledge 2020). Deliberate Ink builds on her research into women’s contribution to the socialist press and the treatment of woman-centred issues in socialist serials published between 1884-1914.
Marcus Diamond (project collaborator) is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Teesside University. He is currently the programme leader for an MA in visual communication and is undertaking a PhD. He has an expanded practice that necessitates research, process, experimentation, performative, play, subversion, disruption and communal action. This hybrid approach allows discourse through visual communication–advocating risk, improvisation, deconstruction, and chance. His current practice/research involves the interrogation of still and moving images. In 2000, he co-founded the design studio Neasden Control Centre, and their first monograph was published worldwide by Die Gestalten Verlag. He has written and published papers concerning the application of visual communication as a medium for social good, Post-industrial landscapes as typography, and intergenerational memory through assemblage and experimental technology
Suzy Corrigan (Research Assistant) is Northern-Bridge Doctorial Training Partnership funded PhD candidate. Her thesis, "To Listen, to Write, and to Perform: Gender, Cosmopolitanism, and Women’s Networks of Musical Experience, 1887-1920," explores the intersections of music, gender, and cosmopolitanism in late 19th and early 20th-century women’s writing. Suzy’s pre-academic career in the entertainment industry continues to enrich her research with practical musical insights. Her most recent article on British author and essayist Stanley Makower (1872-1911) was published in The Yellow Nineties 2.0 in 2024. She supports in the delivery of Deliberate Ink’s discussion and creative writing workshops.