Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Daniel Brown is Professor of English at the University of South­ ampton, UK. His most recent book is Poetry by Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense (2013). Heather Klemann, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, is com­ pleting her dissertation on children’s books and the novel in the eight­ eenth century and the Romantic period. She has authored articles on John Newbery and James Boswell. Sara Lodge is Senior Lecturer in English, specializing in Nineteenthcentury Literature and Culture, at the University of St. Andrews, UK. She is the author of Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-century Poetry: Work, Play and Politics (2007),Jane Eyre: An Essential Guide to Criticism (2008), and numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century litera­ ture and print culture. She is currently writing a book about Edward Lear and Dissent. Timothy Ruppert currently teaches at Slippery Rock University and has published articles on Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Anne Bannerman. He has also written several book reviews and is at work on a book-length study of mercy and compassion in Romantic and early Victorian British literature. Andrew Burkett is an Assistant Professor of English at Union College. His research interests center on the intersections among liter­ ature, science, and technology in the British Romantic era. He is cur­ rently at work on a monograph project that investigates the relation­ ship between Romantic imaginative literature and the world of new media dating from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Deidre Lynch is ChancellorJackman Professor and Associate Profes­ sor of English at the University of Toronto. Her publications include The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business ofIn­ ner Meaning andJaneites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees. She is currently completing a book entitled “At Home in English: A Cultural History of the Love of Literature.” Robin Jarvis is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West ofEngland, Bristol, UK. Among his publications are Roman­ 633 634 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS tic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (1997), The Romantic Period: The Intel­ lectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1789-1830 (2004), and, most recently, Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel (2012). His current work continues to combine his focus in British Romanticism with an interest in travel writing studies. Patrick R. O’Malley is an Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Catholicism, Sexual Devi­ ance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (2006) as well as essays on religion, gender, and sexuality in the works of writers including John Henry Newman, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, and Sydney Owenson. He is currently working on an analysis of the representa­ tion of history in the works of nineteenth-century Protestant Irish nationalists. Charles Mahoney, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University ofConnecticut, is most recently the editor of A Companion to Romantic Poetry (2011). He is currently at work on Coleridge on Shakespeare (under contract with Princeton). Brian McGrath is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson Uni­ versity. He is the author of The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy (2013). Andrew Allport is the author ofthe collection The Body ofSpace in the Shape of the Human (New Issues Press, 2012) and the poetry chap­ book The Ice Ship and Other Vessels (Proem Press, 2008). His critical and creative work has appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, The Antioch Review, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches writing and literature at the University ofSouthern California. ...