- Notes on Contributors
Enit Karafili Steiner is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Among others, she is author of Jane Austen’s Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process (2012) and Northanger Abbey/Persuasion: A Readers’ Guide (2016), and editor of Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2014) and Frances Brooke’s The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (2013).
Eric Eisner is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity (Palgrave, 2009) and editor of a Romantic Circles Praxis volume on Romantic Fandom (2011). He is currently working on a book on john Keats and recent and contemporary American poetry.
Rachael Isom recently completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published articles on Hannah More, Caroline Fry, and J. M. Coetzee. Her current monograph project explores the intersections of religious and poetic zeal via the figure of the female enthusiast in Romantic-era women’s writing.
Dana Van Kooy is Associate Professor of Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture in the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University. She is the author of Shelley’s Radical Stages: Performance and Cultural Memory in the Post-Napoleonic Era (Routledge, 2016) and has published articles in Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, The Keats-Shelley Review, and Literature Compass. She has also edited and contributed to an issue about teaching Romantic-period drama for Romantic Tcxtualities.
Amelia Klein is an Assistant Professor of English at Colgate University and a poet. Her scholarship focuses on the Romantic tradition of proto-ecological thought and on its legacy in modernist and postmodern poetics.
Jan Golinski is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 (Cambridge, 1992); Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (U of Chicago P, 2005); British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (U of Chicago P, 2007); and The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science (U of Chicago P, 2016).
Theresa M. Kelley is Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Johns Hopkins, 2012), Reinventing Allegory (Cambridge, 1997), and Wordsworth’s Revisionary Aesthetics (Cambridge, 1988). She has published widely on Romantic poetics, aesthetics, visual culture, the matter of archives, and philosophy. She is the recipient of fellowships awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Simon D. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Henry E. Huntington Library, Yale Center for British Art, and UW-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities. She is currently writing two books: Reading for the Future and Color Trouble.
Paul Westover is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860 (2012), co-editor of the Romantic Circles critical edition of Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes (2015), and co-editor of Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century (2016). His current projects center on literary relics, literary geography, and the writings of Dorothy Wordsworth.
Paul Hamilton is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. His last two books were Realpoetik (Oxford, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (Oxford, 2016).
Kir Kuiken is Associate Professor of English at SUNY, Albany. He is the author of Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism (Fordham UP, 2014), as well as essays on Wordsworth, Shelley, Goethe, and others.