Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
William Davis is a Professor of Comparative Literature and German at The Colorado College, Colorado Springs. His published work has been largely in the areas of comparative British and German Romanticism, intersections between philosophy and literature, and literary theory. In recent years he has turned his attention to questions of Romantic Hellenism and Philhellenism. He has published in journals such as The Wordsworth Circle, The Germanic Review, The Goethe Yearbook, European Romantic Review, Prism(s), World Picture, and Berliner Schelling Studien. His book, Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature, appeared with Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of North-American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic research is focused on British and American literature, with a special interest in the Romantic poets and in 20th- and 21st-century poetry. He has published a short guide to Byron’s Venice (In Venice and in the Veneto with Lord Byron, 2008). He is a member of the Academic Committee for the Lord Byron Museum in Ravenna, to be inaugurated in 2021. He has published six novels, the most recent of which (Ascension, 2015; The Four Horsemen, 2017) are spy-stories set in 18th-century Venice.
John Owen Havard is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830 (Oxford University Press, 2019) and ‘Byron the Cynic’ in Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry, eds. Roderick Beaton and Christine Kenyon Jones (Routledge, 2017).
Fiona Milne is a Research Associate at the University of York’s Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, where she completed her PhD in 2019. She is currently working on her first book, Romantic Character and the Law: British Radicalism and Self-Defence, 1792–1832, which explores the relationship between literary and legal histories of character in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Fiona has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library (California) and the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections. She has taught courses in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York.
Jake Phipps is a PhD candidate with Durham University English department. His thesis examines Robert Burns’s placement within British Romanticism, as well as Burns’s influence on canonical Romantic poets, specifically William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Lord Byron. He was a co-organiser for the Humour and Satire in British Romanticism conference (Durham 2019) and is one of the guest editors for a forthcoming special issue of Romanticism, on Humour and Satire. Previous degrees were taken at Durham University (MA) and University of Virginia (BA).
