Diana Maltz is an Associate Professor at Southern Oregon University where she teaches classes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She holds an interdisciplinary BA. in Literature and History from Bennington College and an MA. and Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. She was awarded postdoctoral research fellowships through the Ahmanson-Getty Foundation in 1999 and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2000. Dr. Maltz has published various scholarly articles in Victorian studies; her work characteristically spans the disciplines of literature, history, and art history. Her book, British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) documents the efforts of philanthropists who sought to enhance the lives of laboring men and women by exposing them to the arts. Dr. Maltz’s present project, “Bohemia’s Bo(a)rders,” for which she has won a Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grant, examines British expatriate aesthetes in Italy during the fin de siècle. She is also writing a book, “Fictions of the New Life,” on creative writings by British utopian socialists of the 1880s and 1890s. Interests: • nineteenth-century British literature and cultural studies • Victorian social reform movements • representations of poverty and class • Victorian design and the Aesthetic Movement • transnational, gendered and queer identities