Julie F. Codell, Professor of Art History and English, Arizona State University, received a PhD in Comparative Literature. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003) and Images of an Idyllic Past: Edward Curtis's Photographs (1988); edited Genre, Gender,Race, and World Cinema (2007), and co-edited Encounters in the Victorian Press (2004) and Orientalism Transposed (1998), now being translated into Japanese. She is currently editing Photography and the Imperial Durbars of British India (2009) and preparing a book on British coronations in Delhi, 1877-1911.