Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Marshall Brown is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University ofWashington and editor ofModem Language Quarterly. His most recent book is “The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul”: Essays on Music and Poetry (U ofWashington P, 2010). He has been a member of the SiR Advisory Board since 1989. His previous essays in the journal are “The Pre-Romantic Discovery of Consciousness (1978) and “A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel” (1987). Two book re­ views in SiR (1971 and 1973) were his first publications. Miranda Stanyon is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. She is currently working on a book on mu­ sic and the sublime in the long eighteenth century. John Robbins is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. His research focuses on Romantic drama by women, as well as the intersections between scientific and theatrical discourses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Katie S. Homar recently graduated from the University of Pitts­ burgh. Her research examines the intersections ofliterature and rheto­ ric in the Romantic period, showing how authors repurposed older rhetorical practices to produce new literary forms. This article in SiR is part ofher current project, tentatively titled Prose Deciaimers: Roman­ tic Essayists, Classical Rhetoric, and the Formation ofMetropolitan Romanti­ cisms, which focuses on Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, and Hunt. In ad­ dition to British Romanticism, she has published an essay on Chaucer and Bakhtin in The Chaucer Review (2010). Keith Hasperg teaches English at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. Laura Mandell is Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, and Professor of English at Texas A&M Univer­ sity. She is the author of Misogynous Economies: The Business of Litera­ ture in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), a Longman Cultural Edition of The Castle of Ortanto and Man of Feeling, and numerous articles pri­ marily about eighteenth-century women writers. Her article in New Literary History, “What Is the Matter? What Literary History Neither Hears Nor Sees,” describes how digital work can be used to conduct 145 146 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS research into conceptions informing the writing and printing of eighteenth-century poetry. She is Project Director of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900, http://poetessarchive.org; Director of i8thConnect, http://www.18thConnect.org; and Director of ARC, http://www .ar-c.org, the Advanced Research Consortium overseeing NINES, i8thConnect, and MESA. ...