William H. Scheuerle, Director 
974-3655
wscheuer@cas.usf.edu

William H. Scheuerle received his Ph.D in Nineteenth-Century British Literature from Syracuse University.  He is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida.  He has published books, chapters, and/or articles on such writers as Henry Kingsley, Charles Dickens, George Baxter, Emily Brontё, Alfred Austin, Samuel Coleridge, Robert Browning, Charles Edward Appleton, Lady Blessington and on various Victorian periodicals, e.g. Ainsworth Magazine, Belgravia, National Review, Temple Bar. He was a contributor to the recently published the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has upcoming entries in the Nineteenth-Century Dictionary of Journalism.  For eight years he was editor of the quarterly Victorian Periodicals Review.

Christine M. Probes, Associate Director
974-3536
probes@cas.usf.edu

Christine McCall Probes holds the Ph.D. in French Literature from Tulane University and is currently Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, where she has served as Associate Chair and Interim Chair of the Department of World Languages.  Her research and teaching take her regularly to France where her work has been supported by the French government, several French universities, and by awards from USF.  She serves on the Executive Councils of two international societies in her field of specialization, the Grand Siècle, and has also served on the MLA’s Executive Committee on 17thCentury French Literature.  Her published research on the early modern (poetry, patristic sources, theatre, letters, rhetoric, the emblem) regularly appears in refereed books and journals here and abroad, such as: Medievalia et Humanistica, Seventeenth Century French Studies, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, and Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. In 2003 she co-edited the volume La Femme à l’âge classique (Tübingen) and is a longstanding contributing editor to over 30 volumes of the annual MLA-sponsored critical bibliography French 17.  In 2006 she delivered papers on emblematic literature at international conferences in Germany and England. The studies, “La Représentation emblématique de la femme à l’entrecroisement de l’art et de la poésie” and “Becoming Global in the Early Modern: A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics,” are currently in press.