Notes on Contributors
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Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Heyman Center of the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of the books Belief and Meaning, Self- Knowledge and Resentment, and the forthcoming Politics and the Moral Psychology of Resentment.
James Chandler is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema-and- Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Director of the Franke Institute for the Hunranties. His publications include England in 1819 (U of Chicago P, 1998) and Wordsworth’s Second Nature (U of Chicago P, 1984). He is co-editor of Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion Across the Disciplines (U of Chicago P, 1992) and Romantic Metropolis (Cambridge UP, 2005). He has recently published two edited volumes, the Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature (Cambridge UP, 2009) and, with Maureen McLane, the Cambridge Companion to Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2009). He is now finishing a book about the history of the sentimental mode in literature and cinema.
Frances Ferguson teaches at The Johns Hopkins University. She writes on the eighteenth century, Romanticism, and literary theory, and is currently working on a book on the thinking that gave rise to mass education.
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790’s, among other books. A version of his essay in this issue appears in the Humanities Ebooks edition of The Convention of Cintra, edited by W. J. B. Owen and Richard Gravil.
Colin Jager is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. His interests include secularism, religion, cognitive science, and the relations between philosophy and literature. He is the author of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (U of Pennsylvania P, 2007). Recent articles have appeared in Public Culture, Theory and Event, Romantic Circles, and Pedagogy.
Marjorie Levinson is F. L. Huetwell Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of The Romantic Fragment Poem: A Critique of a Form; Wordsworth’s Great Period Poems, Keats’s Life of Allegory: the Origins of a Style, and editor of Re-Thinking Historicism. Her recent work, organized by a historically conjunctural method, investigates varieties of poetic, philosophical, and scientific materialism (e.g., “Pre-and Post-Dialectical Materialism: Modeling Praxis Without Subjects and Objects,” Cultural Critique; “Object Loss and Object Bondage in Hardy’s Poetry,” ELH; and “Picturing Pleasure: Some Poems by Elizabeth Bishop,” in What’s Left of Theory, ed. Butler, Guillory, Thomas).
W. J. T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, and editor in chief of Critical Inquiry. His recent books include Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to the Present, Critical Terms for Media Studies (with Mark Hansen), and What Do Pictures Want?, which won the Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association in 2007. He is finishing a new book Teachable Moments in Race and Media, under contract to Harvard UP.
Erik Simpson is Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College. He is the author of Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature and Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790—1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money.
Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil for the Cornell Wordsworth, and co-edited Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition for Cambridge UP and Romantic Circles.
Eric Lindstrom teaches in the English department at The University of Vermont in Burlington. His book, Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan) was recently published. He is currently working on an essay collection on Stanley Cavell and British Romanticism.
Uttara Natarajan is Reader in English at Goldsmiths’, University of London. She is the author of Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense (Oxford UP, 1998), and the co-editor, with Tom Paulin...
