Notes on Contributors
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Emily Rohrbach, Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, teaches and writes about British Romanticism, aesthetic theory, and the intersections of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory. Her current book project, Dark Passages of Time: Romantic Historiography and the Literary Subject, explores non-prophetic moments of anticipation in Romantic literature.
Emily Sun is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Her interests include British and European Romantic and nineteenth- century poetry and fiction, politics and aesthetics, literary theory, and East West cross-cultural politics and aesthetics. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (Fordham, 2010) and co-editor of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham, 2007). She is currently working on a book, for Chinese publication, on Shakespeare’s Romantic and postRomantic legacy and the question of global spectatorship.
Jacques Rancière, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis), writes about philosophy, art, literature, politics, and the relations between them. Among his publications now available in English are The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing, The Politics of Aesthetics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, and The Politics of Literature.
Jonathan Mulrooney is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the College of the Holy Cross. His essays on Romanticism, theatre, and other topics have appeared in numerous venues, including Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Studies in the Novel, and The Cambridge Companion to Theatre, 17301830. He is currently completing one book-length study, entitled Romanticism and Theatrical Experience, and beginning another, entitled Keats’s Vanishing Figures.
Rei Terada, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at UC Irvine, is the author of Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard, 2001) and Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno (Harvard, 2009).
Noel Jackson is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge, 2008) and other essays in Romantic literary culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Modern Philology, MLQ, and elsewhere.
Magdalena Ostas is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Boston University. She works in the areas of Romantic literature and culture as well as the history of literary, cultural, and aesthetic theory. Her current book project in progress, tentatively titled Romanticism and the Forms of Interiority, looks at the relationship between emergent pictures of subjectivity and selfhood in Romantic-era writing (Kant, Wordsworth, Keats, Austen, and others) and their relation to questions of literary form, aesthetics, and expression.
Brian Mcgrath is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University. His essays have been published in Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Studies in English Literature 1500—1900. At present, he is completing a book project on figures of address in Enlightenment pedagogical treatises and Romantic poems.
Eric Gidal is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum (2001) and related articles on eighteenth-century and romantic period poetry, aesthetics, and visual culture. His recent scholarship has studied representations of melancholy, climate, and national character in the literature and philosophy of the European Enlightenment.
Ana Hid Nersessian is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her work includes studies of Romantic poetry and prose fiction, and of topics in political and aesthetic philosophy. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript called The Political Romance: Love and Liberal Modernity, 1790– 1823, and has begun work on a second project provisionally entitled The Calamity Form, which gives a history of literary realism in relation to the collective experience of ecological crisis or catastrophe.
Jack Stillinger, Center for Advanced Study Professor of English (emeritus) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been publishing regularly on Keats and the other Romantics since the mid- 1950s...
