The Father Figures Conference is organised by Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers. Please feel free to contact either Trev or Helen (details below) or the conference administrator Jacky Eden.
 
Trev is senior lecturer in Women's Studies and English at the University of York. She has long-standing research interests in gender and Life-writing, and is the author (for Routledge) of Men of Letters, Writing Lives (1998). She has co-edited volumes on the Victorian Governess, Angela Carter and Women's Life-writing. Her current work is on Victorian biographies of Anglo-Indian officials, and stems from her wider interest in Victorians as 'lone' fathers.
Trev Broughton Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

Helen teaches cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. Her interest in fatherhood stems from a current research project on parenting and the custody of children, provisionally entitled ‘Relative Rights: Separation and the Family in Britain since 1800’. Radical and feminist constructions of fatherhood are explored in her forthcoming essay, ‘“In the Name of the Father”: Political Biographies by Radical Daughters’ in David Amigoni (ed.) Victorian Life Writing: Technologies of Writing and Identity Formation in Victorian Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). She is the author of Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England (Ashgate, 2000) and is writing on self-representation in a study called ‘Literature, Life and Labour: The Working Woman in Nineteenth-Century Britain’.
Helen Rogers Literature and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

Jacky has just finished her BA in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and is looking forward to starting a bespoken MA at Manchester University in the autumn. Her main research interests are aspects of masculinity as seen in the working class during the nineteenth-century, with particular interest in mental health.
Jacky Eden