Contributors
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James Chandler is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His research interests include British and Irish literature since the early Enlightenment and American cinema. Recent publications include An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (2013). He is currently at work on a book about practical criticism in literature and cinema.
Marlene L. Daut is Associate Director and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. She specializes in early Caribbean, nineteenth-century African American, and early modern French colonial literary and historical studies. She is the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (2015) and Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017). She is also working on a collaborative project entitled An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery) and the cocreator and coeditor of H-Net Commons' digital platform, H-Haiti.
Cordula Grewe is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington, and specializes in European art of the long nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on questions of visual piety, word-image relationships, and aesthetics. Having published widely in this area, she is currently completing a book titled The Arabesque from Kant to Comics and pursuing two new research projects, "Modern Theo-Aesthetics from Ingres to the Leipzig School" and "The Body as Medium: Portraiture as Performance from Emma Hamilton to Nicky Minaj." Grewe has served on the boards of Intellectual History Review and Modern Intellectual History.
Virginia Jackson is the UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (2005) and, with Yopie Prins, the coeditor of The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology (2013). Her next book, Before Modernism: The Invention of American Poetry, is forthcoming in 2019.
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia. This essay is part of an ongoing investigation of Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and poetics. His most recent book is in press: The Textual Condition of Early American Literature. Intentional Form, Interpretive Method, Cultural Fate.
Anahid Nersessian is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment (2015) and editor of the Broadview edition of Percy Shelley's Laon and Cythna (2016). She is writing one book called The Calamity Form and another on Chris Kraus's I Love Dick. With Nan Z. Da, she edits the Thinking Literature series.
Holly Watkins is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. She is the author of Metaphors of Depth in German Musical ThoiÁght: From E. T. A. Hoffmann to Arnold Schoenberg (2011) and Musical Vitalities: Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music (2018). Her published articles focus on musical aesthetics and philosophy, ecocriticism, and psychoanalytic thought.
Tristram Wolff is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He writes and teaches on Romantic and contemporary poetry, the history of language theories and reading practices, and the environmental humanities. He is working on a book tentatively titled Frail Bonds: Uprooting Langage in the Romantic Century.
