Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Peter Cochran edits the works and correspondence of Byron on the website of the International Byron Society. He has lectured frequently on Byron, and has published thirteen books on the poet. His latest, the proceedings volume Aspects of Byron’s Don Juan, will be published later this year.
N. E. Gayle is Head of Classics at Exmouth Community College, where he teaches Latin, Greek and Classical Civilisation. He has given seminar papers at Exeter University on ‘Composing in the Ancient World’, ‘Homeric Music’, ‘Reconstructing Anacreon’, ‘Sophoclean Puzzles’ and the Roman astrological poet Manilius. He is engaged, long-term, in a poetic continuation of Don Juan and is currently approaching the end of Canto XIX; the aim is to ‘finish’ the poem at the traditional number of twenty-four in time for the bicentenary celebrations of the publication of the poem’s first five cantos in 2019.
Anne Falloon is an alumna of University College London and the University of Leeds. For many years an English lecturer and senior manager in Further Education colleges, she retired in 2010. A lifelong Byron enthusiast, working in Manchester brought her by chance to Hopwood Hall – now in ruins – near Rochdale. Current research includes the Byron family’s mediaeval roots in the Salford hundred.
Gavin Hopps is a Lecturer in Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews. He has published numerous articles on Romantic writing, a co-edited collection on Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens and a monograph on the singer-songwriter Morrissey. He is currently working with Jane Stabler on a new edition of Byron’s complete poetical works, a monograph on the levity of Don Juan and another on Romantic Enchantment.
Marita Mathijsen is Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). She specialises in nineteenth-century literature and editorial scholarship. In 1998 she received the Prince Bernhard Fund Prize for the Humanities. In 2002 she published a book on the nineteenth-century state of mind, entitled De gemaskerde eeuw (The Masked Century). [End Page vi]
