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  • Essay Contributors

Maurizio Ascari is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna. His publications include books and essays on the formation of the literary canon, travel writing, crime and anarchist fiction, and contemporary fiction within a global perspective. He has edited and translated works by Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner, Jack London and William Wilkie Collins.

Paul Douglass is Professor of English and American Literature at San José State University. With Frederick Burwick he edited A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, by Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron (1988). He is also the author of Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography (2004) and The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (2006), and the editor, with Leigh Wetherall Dickson, of The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb (3 vols, 2009). In 2007 he was co-recipient of the Elma Dangerfield Prize. With Frederick Burwick he has also inaugurated a Romantic-era songs website (http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music).

Ria Grimbergen studied Dutch language and literature, and the history of the book, at Leiden University. She is the author of two articles on the Dutch writer Multatuli and his publisher G. L. Funke. She has been a bookseller for twenty years, the last ten of these as the owner of a bookshop in Lisse, the Netherlands, and has also worked as an editor and proofreader. She is grateful to Eric de Ree of the Netherlands Byron Society and Jan Wesseling for their support.

Gavin Hopps is an Academic Fellow in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. He has been Lecturer in English at the universities of Aachen, Oxford, and Canterbury Christ Church, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has published a number of essays on Romantic writing and a monograph on the singer-songwriter Morrissey. He is currently working on a new six-volume edition of Byron's poetry, with Dr Jane Stabler, to be published in the Longman Annotated English Poets series.

Christine Kenyon Jones is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King's College London, and a member of the Executive Committee of The Byron Society. Her books include Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-period Writing (Ashgate, 2001) and Byron: The Image of the Poet (Associated University Presses, 2008). She has had many book chapters and articles published in The Byron Journal and elsewhere, on [End Page vii] topics including Romanticism and religion, food and eating in the Romantic period, and science fiction and Romanticism.

Alex Watson is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Music, Media and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He completed his DPhil in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and recently held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Romantic Marginality, which examines the relationship between political marginality and marginal textual spaces, such as footnotes, endnotes and glosses, in Romantic-period writing. [End Page viii]

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