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  • Notes on Contributors

Gillen D’Arcy Wood is Nicholson Professor in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860 (Palgrave, 2001), Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain: Virtue and Virtuosity, 1770–1840 (Cambridge, 2010), and an historical novel, Hosack’s Folly (Other Press, 2005). His current book is a global study of the environmental and social impacts of the eruption of Mt. Tambora in Indonesia in 1815.

Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is author of Edmund Burke’s Aesthetic Ideology (Cambridge, 1993) and of a number of chapters and articles on the interrelationships between literature, aesthetics, politics and science in the eighteenth century and the Romantic period.

George E. Haggerty is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His recent publications include Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays of Philip Brett (California, 2006), Queer Gothic (Illinois, 2006), and The Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies, edited with Molly McGarry (Blackwell, 2007). His study of Horace Walpole’s correspondence—Horace Walpole’s Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century—is in press.

Elizabeth Johnston is Assistant Professor of English at Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., where she teaches both Early and Modern British Literature, Women in Literature, the Novel, and Female Icons in Popular Culture. Her scholarly work includes studies in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British literature, as well as examination of representations of gender in popular culture, and has been published in the award-winnig collection, Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica (Continuum, 2007); How Real is Reality Television: Essays on Representation and Truth (McFarland, 2006); The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture: North Africa and the Middle East (Greenwood, 2007); and the online journal, thirdspace.

Martha J. Koehler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She is the author of Models of Reading: Paragons and Parasites in Richardson, Burney, and Laclos (Bucknell, 2005). Her recent work focuses on Richardson’s novels in the context of social and moral reform movements of the mid-eighteenth century. [End Page 393]

Laura E. Thomason is Assistant Professor of English at Macon State College in Macon, Georgia. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature. Thomason’s current project examines women’s rhetorical self-fashioning in courtship and marriage, as seen through personal letters and fiction from the Interregnum through the mid-1700s.

Helen Thompson is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University. She is author of Ingenious Subjection: Power and Compliance in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (Penn, 2005). Her current book project explores subject-object relations in eighteenth-century empirical philosophy, pornography, and the novel.

Michael Yonan is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is the author of Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art, which is forthcoming from Pennsylvania State University Press, and diverse articles on eighteenth-century art, primarily in Central Europe. [End Page 394]

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