Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Maureen N. McLane is the author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry and Romanticism and The Human Sciences (both from Cambridge UP), as well as two books of poetry and a third, This Blue, forthcoming in April 2014 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her book My Poets (FSG, 2012)—an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism—features a chapter called “My Shelley/ (My Romantics).” Jonas Cope is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University ofMis­ souri. His work is forthcoming in Romanticism and The Keats-Shelley Journal. He is currently finishing a book on the ideology of character and characterization in post-Regency British literature and culture. Mandy Swann is a researcher affiliated with the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She completed her doctorate on the portrayal of the sea and marine animals in the Romantic period in 2011. She is currently working on a volume on Charlotte Bronte’s later juvenilia, and on a study of Charlotte Bronte and Romanticism. She is also working on a project examining the representations of the sea and marine animals in contemporary English literature, culture and marine policy. Recent publications include “ ‘The Destroying Angel ofTempest’: the Sea in Villettef Bronte Studies 38, no. 2 (April 2013). Claire Sheridan teaches at Queen Mary, University of London, where she recently completed her Ph.D. on survival and sociability in the Godwin-Shelley circles. She has published work on memoirs by William Godwin and Amelia Opie, and on the idea ofsole survival in Godwin’s novel St Leon. Brent L. Russo is currently completing his dissertation as a Gordon E. Hein Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, under the di­ rection ofJerome Christensen. Entitled “Essaying Romantic Liberal­ ism,” his project examines familiar essays and memoirs as critical inter­ ventions in the progress of liberalism in early-nineteenth-century politics and culture. Gerard Cohen-Vrignaudis Assistant Professor ofEnglish at the University ofTennessee. His most recent essay on “Byron and Orien­ tal Love” appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2013). He is cur481 482 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS rently at work on a book titled “Radical Orientalism and the Rights of Man.” Scott H e s s is Associate Professor of English at Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana. He has published books on Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (Routledge, 2005) and William Wordsworth and the Ecology ofAuthorship: Nature, Class, Aesthetics, and the Roots ofEnvi­ ronmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture (U of Virginia P, 2012). Andrew Piper is Associate Professor in the Department ofLanguages, Literatures, and Cultures and Associate Member in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagi­ nation in the Romantic Age (Chicago, 2009) as well as numerous articles on the cultural role of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century book gen­ res such as atlases, translations, miscellanies, diaries, ballads, note­ books, and gift-books. His most recent book is Book Was There: Read­ ing in Electronic Times (Chicago, 2012). Leslie Elizabeth Eckel is an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston. She is the author of Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (Edinburgh, 2013). Her current projects include a monograph, Dwelling in Possibil­ ity: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures, and an essay collection, The Ed­ inburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, co-edited with Clare Elliott and Andrew Taylor. Emily Sun is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. She works on Romantic poetry and poetics, with emphasis on politics and aesthetics and the afterlives ofShakespeare in literature, philosophy, and political thought. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (Fordham, 2010; paper, 2012) and essays in Studies in Romanticism and Romantic Circles Praxis Series. She co-edited, with Emily Rohrbach, the Summer 2011 issue of Studies in Romanti­ cism, “Reading Keats, Thinking Politics.” Emma Mason is a Reader in the Department ofEnglish and Compara­ tive Literary Studies at the University ofWarwick. She is the author of Nineteenth-Century Women...