LITIR (Literary Information and Retrieval) Database, a project on Victorian Studies, was launched at the University of Alberta Department of English in February 1981 by Dr. Brahma Chaudhuri. The main purpose of the project was to produce a comprehensive database covering information on every publication about the Victorian period from 1945 to the present. That goal was accomplished with the publication of Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies: 1945-2004 and Victorian Database Online: 1945-2007. After the retirement of the founding editor, the administrative office of the project was moved to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The project operates on a not-for-profit but cost-covering basis.
Board of Advisers:
- Josef L. Altholz, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
- Lord Asa Briggs, Provost, Worcester College, Oxford
- Charles H. Davis, Dean, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Alan Dilnot, Professor of English, Monash University, Australia
- J.F.C. Harrison, Professor of History, University of Sussex
- A.N. Kaul, Professor of English, University of Delhi
- Christopher Kent, Editor, Canadian Journal of History & Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
- Juliet McMaster, Professor of English, University of Alberta
- R.D. McMaster, Professor of English, University of Alberta
- John S. North, Professor of English, University of Waterloo
- Norman Page, Professor of English, University of Nottingham
- Robert L. Patten, Editor, Studies in English Literature & Professor of English, Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Roger Robinson, Professor of English, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Ron Senda, Senior Analyst, Computing Services, University of Alberta
- Michael Wolff, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts
Managing Editor:
- Nandini Chaudhuri
Web Programming and Design:
- Norm Friesen
Assistant Editor:
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Cindy Chopoidalo
Research Assistants:
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Shawn Eliot
- Aaron Eliot
Editor:
- Brahma Chaudhuri
About the Editor: Brahma Chaudhuri, formerly of University of Alberta, has published widely on Charles Dickens, contributed a Chapter on Victorian periodicals in India in Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration (1996) and is currently finishing a novel on Sir Philip Francis and Madame Grand.
Contact:
Mailing address:
PO Box 8775, Victoria BC, Canada V8W 3S3
Phone: 250-381-1149. Fax: 250-381-1149
email: editor@victoriandatabase.com & litir@telus.net
website: www.victoriandatabase.com
editor@victoriandatabase.com
© 2007. Updated: July 2007
Web Development: Dr. Norm Friesen
Editor: Dr. Brahma Chaudhuri