Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia. Two books were published in 2014 by Harvard UP: A New Republic of Letters. Memory and Scholarship in the Age ofDigital Reproduction, and The Poet Edgar Allan Poe. Alien Angel. Amanda Lahikainen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Aqui­ nas College. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in the History of Art and Architecture. She recently completed a Kluge Postdoctoral Fellowship at the U.S. Library of Congress. Rachel Feder is Assistant Professor of British Romantic literature at the University of Denver. Her work on infinity has appeared in ELH and she is currently co-editing a special issue of Romantic Circles Peda­ gogy Commons devoted to teaching the Romantic with the contempo­ rary. Rachel is at work on several projects focused on Romantic po­ etry and the multidisciplinary history of literary experiment. Jessie Reeder is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. Beginning in Fall 2015 she will be Assistant Professor ofEnglish at Binghamton Univer­ sity. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British litera­ ture, transnational contact, historical consciousness, and the history of nationalist thought. She is at work on a book project entitled “The Forms of Informal Empire,” which explores how British-Latin Ameri­ can relations in the nineteenth century both challenged existing forms of imperial and national narrative and helped inaugurate new ones. Lynn Voskuil is an Associate Professor ofEnglish at the University of Houston, where she teaches Victorian studies and empire studies. She is the author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (U of Virginia P, 2004) and of numerous journal articles and book chapters on Victorian literature and theater, nineteenth-century gar­ dens and horticulture, and related topics. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Horticulture and Imperialism: The Garden Spaces of the British Empire, 1789—1914.” Eric Lindstrom is an Associate Professor in the Department ofEng­ lish at The University of Vermont, and author of the book, Romantic 643 644 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry (2011), as well as an edited collection on “Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism” at the Romantic Circles Praxis Series online. His current projects include a book manuscript on Jane Austen and ordinary language philosophy, and research on the poet James Schuyler. A version of his 2013 Wordsworth Winter School talk is forthcoming in the journal Roman­ ticism. Tom DuGGETTis Associate Professor of English at Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University. His first book, Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form (2010; 2nd ed., 2013), won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars. He recently guest-edited a special issue of The Wordsworth Circle on Wordsworth’s Excursion (45, no. 2 [Spring 2014]), and is currently working on a scholarly edition of Robert Southey’s Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on Society (1829) for Pickering and Chatto (forthcoming 2016). Alan Bewell is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Toronto. His primary field of interest is British Romanticism in three major areas: the relationship between literature, medicine, and sci­ ence; the history of colonialism; and environmental history. He is au­ thor of Wordsworth and the Enlightenment (1989) and Romanticism and Colonial Disease (1999), and was also editor ofMedicine and the West In­ dian Slave Trade (1999). He is currently completing a book entitled “Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History” and is working on another entitled “Romantic Mobility.” Daniel Hannah is Associate Professor of Romantic and American literature at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He has published widely on British and American literature from the long nineteenth century. His monograph HenryJames, Impressionism, and the Public was published by Ashgate in 2013. Adriana Craciun teaches at UC Riverside and is the author of Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2015), and the editor, with Simon Schaffer, of The Mate­ rial Culture of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (Palgrave, forthcoming 2015) . She has published widely on the history ofexploration, material texts, and British women’s writings. Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English and University Distin­ guished Professor at the University of Arizona...