Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Catherine Addison is a professor of English at the University of Zululand, in South Africa. Her Ph.D., completed at the University of British Columbia, was on Byron's Don Juan. She has published articles on Byron, Shelley and other Romantic poets, as well as on Renaissance, Mediaeval and Modernist poetry, on various poetic features including prosody and simile, on fictional woman warriors, on narrative and on the depiction of women in African novels. Her main interest for some years has been the relationship between versification and narration in narrative poetry. With this in mind, she has recently published a monograph on the history of the verse-novel in English.
Lara Assaad received her Ph.D. from the Lebanese University, Beirut, in February 2018. She has taught a variety of English courses at Notre Dame University, Lebanon, and at the American University of Kuwait. Her research focuses on Romantic vampires, particularly the Byronic, on trauma and PTSD, empathy in literature, on Byron's empire anxiety and his identification and obsession with Napoleon Bonaparte. Her other academic interests include Orientalism, the relation between Romanticism and Postcolonialism, popular culture, and the study of the social functions and the practical use of literature in daily life.
Bernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in the School of English at the University of Liverpool and Associate Fellow in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of two books and has edited four collections of essays on Byron. He has written on Romanticism, the Bible, many major authors, and aspects of literary theory. He was editor of The Byron Journal from 1986 to 2004. Recent publications have been about Shelley and the theatre, Byron, Pope, and Newman, Browning and Newman, Romantic Decadence, Byron and Cowper, Byron's temperament, Byron and Italian Catholicism, Byron and Spain and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Pending ones are on Byron's dramatic monologues and a collection of selected essays 'Mainly Byron'.
Christine Kenyon Jones is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King's College London. Her books include Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-period Writing (Ashgate, 2001) and (as editor) Byron: The Image of the Poet (University of Delaware Press, 2008) and (with Roderick Beaton) Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry (Routledge, 2016). She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Byron Society, London, and was joint organiser of the 39th International Byron Conference in London in 2013. Her work on Byron includes chapters and papers on his portraiture; on illustrations of his work; on his religious heritage; on his parliamentary career; his disability; his relationship with John Murray; his responses to animals; his pronunciation; his eating habits and his criticism of Keats.
Emily Paterson-Morgan is Director of The Byron Society. She has published on Byron's religious interests and the influence of works by Dante and Southey on Byron's poetry. An independent scholar, she is currently researching Byron's engagement with adultery discourses in English print culture. She also organises the annual spring Byron conference at Newstead Abbey and is editor of the BARS blog.
