Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Charlotte May completed her PhD, 'An Edition of the Selected Letters of Samuel Rogers', at the University of Nottingham in 2017 and continues to transcribe, research, and publish this correspondence. Her research interests include social networks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, correspondence, and the identity of the professional author in the Romantic period. She also researches nineteenth-century workhouse history at the National Trust site The Workhouse, Southwell, and is a Trustee of Keswick Museum, conserving and advocating for their internationally important Robert Southey collection.
Sara Medina Calzada is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain. She has researched and published on the historical and cultural relations between Britain and the Hispanic world in the nineteenth century and, more particularly, on the reception of British literature in Spain and on the representations of Spain in British Romantic print culture. Recent publications include 'Byron in Fiction: Images of the Poet in Nineteenth-Century Spain' (Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2021) and 'Thomas Moore in the Hispanic World' (in The Reputations of Thomas Moore: Poetry, Music and Politics, eds. Sarah McCleave and Tríona O'Hanlon, Routledge, 2020).
Gabriele Poole is Professor of English literature at the University of Cassino in Italy. He received a PhD in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate in English-Language Literatures from Università La Sapienza, Rome. He has written on Byron, with special attention to the relation between the psychology of the hero and the politics and style of Byron's works, as well as on theatre and critical theory, and has translated poetry into Italian and English. He is currently working on a study and poetic translation of Everyman.
Rachel Retica is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia. She studies Early Modern poetry and poetics and how figures of speech came to be. She has a B.A. in English and Biology from Williams College and this year will be a Graduate Fellow in the John L. Nau III History and Principles of Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Webb is a PhD candidate and instructor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He primarily researches book history, print culture and authorship in the Romantic period, with a particular focus on Lord Byron's library and the libraries of other Romantic figures. His research tests the limitations and opportunities presented by digital approaches and methods in their fidelity to and reconstitution of literary networks and their physical traces. He is also a research assistant on The Orlando Project: Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities, where he adapts the textbase for big data analysis and visualisation. [End Page vii]
