Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Nina Amstutz is Assistant Professor in the Department of the His­ tory of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art. She is cur­ rently working on a monograph about Caspar David Friedrich and the life sciences. Jason Berger is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America (U of Minnesota P, 2012) and is currently working on a monograph entitled “Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America.” Mai-Lin Cheng is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. Andrew McKendry is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the De­ partment ofEnglish at Yale University. He has published articles on Samuel Johnson and Thomas Gray, and he is currently completing a book on Daniel Defoe and Whig politics. James Harriman-Smith is Lecturer in English literature at New­ castle University. He has published articles on Madame de Stael and Shakespeare, Diderot and English acting theory, and on eighteenthcentury scholarly editing. He recently completed a Ph.D. at Cam­ bridge University on the literary critical influence of English theater from 1710 to 1800. John Buccis Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. Mark Parker teaches atJames Madison University. His books include Literary Magazines and British Romanticism as well as volumes 3 and 4 of Blackwood’s Magazine, 1817—182;. Brittany Pl a dek is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, where she specializes in British Romanticism. Her re­ search focuses on the intersections between poetry and medical ethics in the Romantic period, and she is currently working on a book that 583 584 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS examines the legacy of the Romantic belief (and disbelief) in litera­ ture’s therapeutic power. John SavareseIs Assistant Professor ofEnglish Language and Litera­ ture at the University ofWaterloo. He is currently completing a book on Romantic poetics and the science of the social mind. ...