Richard Menke is a Professor and the Associate Head of the English Department at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Literature, Print Culture, and New Media, 1880–1900: Many Inventions (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as the editor of Victorian Material Culture: Inventions and Technological Things (2022, volume 3 of Routledge’s Victorian Material Culture series). His other publications include essays in a number of book collections and in journals such as Critical Inquiry, PMLA, ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and the Victorian Periodicals Review. His article “New Grub Street’s Ecologies of Paper” (Victorian Studies, 2018) received an honorable mention for the Donald Gray Prize (awarded to the year’s best essay in the field of Victorian Studies).
At UGA, he teaches courses on Victorian literature and culture, on media and literature, and on the history of the novel.