Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Bernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in English at Liverpool University and Associate Fellow in Divinity at St Andrews. He has written two books on Byron, edited many collections of essays about him, and written more recently (and in the press) on Pope, Newman, Browning, Italian Catholicism, Decadence, the Bible, and Shelley’s theatre.
Anna Camilleri currently holds a Career Development Fellowship in English at Christ Church (Oxford) where she teaches Literature from 1650 to the Present. Her primary research interests are aspects of gender, genre, and poetic form in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Peter Cochran (1944–2015) was an actor for nine years, playing many Shakespearean roles; he then taught English and Drama for twenty-five years, directing many school Shakespeare productions. He edited the complete works and correspondence of Byron, and published fifteen books and countless articles on the poet, most recently The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs (2014) and Manfred: An Edition of Byron’s Manuscripts and a Collection of Essays (2015). His other publications include Small-Screen Shakespeare (2013) and The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield: A Parallel Text Edition (2014). More at https://petercochran.wordpress.com/.
Gavin Hopps is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. He has published numerous articles on Romantic writing and a collection of essays entitled Byron’s Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural. He is currently working with Jane Stabler on the new Longman edition of Byron’s Poetical Works, a monograph on Romantic Enchantment and another on the levity of Byron’s Don Juan.
Mirka Horova (Guest Editor) is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. Her research focuses on British Romanticism, primarily Byron. Her other interests include Scandinavian literature. She has published numerous articles on Byron, a co-edited collection of essays ’Tis to Create and in Creating Live.’ Essays in Honour of Martin Procházka, and two special issues of the academic journal Litteraria Pragensia, most recently ‘Tears, Tortures and the Touch of Joy’: Byron in Italy (with Alan Rawes).
Catherine Redford gained her PhD from the University of Bristol in 2014 and is now a Career Development Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford. Her research interests cover the Romantic and Victorian periods, and include ‘Last Man’ texts, wider ideas of apocalypse and dystopia in nineteenth-century literature, subterranean spaces in late Victorian novels, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells. [End Page vi]
