Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, has book reviews forthcoming in Victorian Studies, Victorian Institute & Journal, and Novel. Her essay "Conrad's Theater of Masculinities" will appear in The Victorian Novel and Masculinity (Palgrave Macmillan February 2015), edited by Phillip Mallet. Shires' essay on Thomas Hardy's career is forthcoming in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature in 2015, and she will speak about Hardy at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference in Ontario, Canada, from November 13-16, 2014, where she is chairing panels on 19th century illustration and on color theory.