Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors William Christie is Professor of English Literature and Pro-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Univer­ sity of Sydney, a Fellow ofthe Australian Academy ofthe Humanities, and President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). His publications include Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (2006)—awarded the NSW Premier’s Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008—an edition of The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas andJane Welsh Carlyle (2008), and The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture ofRomantic Britain (2009). He is currently creating a large website dedicated to the Edinburgh Review under Francis Jeffrey and researching into public lecturing during the Romantic period. Lily Gurton-Wachter is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript called “Commanding Attention: Wartime Prospects in British Romanticism.” Andrew Smith completed his Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches courses on various aspects of eight­ eenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is currently revising a monograph on canonical and non-canonical representations ofrural poverty over the long eighteenth century, and is planning new research projects on “the urban picturesque” and on the role of dirt, waste, and excess in the nineteenth-century novel. Jonathan Crimmins is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He has articles published or forth­ coming in Essays in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Di­ acritics. His current book project is on historicism in the Romantic era. Anne Jamison is a Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Western Sydney. She is a feminist literary and cultural critic with a re­ search focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Ireland and Britain. Her primary research expertise is on women’s writing, and she has published on a variety of Irish women writers from the 1790s to the early twentieth century. She is currently preparing a monograph for Cork University Press on Somerville and Ross and female collabo­ rative authorship 633 634 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Jon M e e is Professor of Eighteenth-century Studies at the University of York and director designate of the Centre of Eighteenth-century Studies. He has published widely on the literature, culture, and poli­ tics of the Romantic period, most recently Conversable Worlds: Litera­ ture, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830 (Oxford, 2011). He is cur­ rently writing a book on the print culture of London’s popular radicalism in the 1790s and directing a Leverhulme Trust funded proj­ ect called “Networks of Improvement, 1760—1840: Literary Clubs, Societies and Associations” on the flow of knowledge across geo­ graphical, social, and disciplinary boundaries. Shawn Lisa Maurer is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her publications combine a focus on women writers with attention to the historical construction of gender, in particular masculinity, across a variety of genres, includ­ ing periodical literature, fiction, and drama. She is the author of Pro­ posing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century Eng­ lish Periodical (1998) and has edited Elizabeth Inchbald’s Nature and Art for Broadview Press (2005). Chris BundockIs Assistant Professor ofEnglish at Huron University College. His published work centers on Romantic historiography, poetics, and the Gothic. He has recently completed a manuscript on Romanticism and prophecy and is beginning a new project on the phenomenology of illness. Tom M o l e is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University ofEdinburgh. He is the author of Byron’s Romantic Celebrity (2007), and the editor of Romanti­ cism and Celebrity Culture (2009) and of one volume of Blackwood’s Ed­ inburgh Magazine 1817—1825: Selectionsfrom Maga’s Infancy (2006). Johanna Winant is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Instructor in English at the College of the Holy Cross. She works on modernism, particularly on poetry and poetics, and on literature and philosophy. Tara McDonald is a Ph.D. Candidate in English literature at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation focuses on the...