Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Stephen Allen is a collector of books and related items, whose eclectic interests include John Fowles, the novelist, Robert Stephen Hawker, the poet-priest, and William Stukeley, the antiquarian. With enthusiastic help, he identified his annotated copy of Shelley's Laon & Cythna as that which was revised by Thomas Love Peacock in response to Charles Ollier's prescribed changes to be made as a precondition for publishing the poem. Currently, he is examining John Drinkwater's personal album.
Daniel Cook is Reader in English at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Reading Swift's Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Walter Scott and Short Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), as well as a co-editor of Women's Life Writing, 1700–1850: Gender, Genre, and Authorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), among other books.
Emily Paterson-Morgan is an independent scholar and the Director of The Byron Society. She has published a number of articles on various aspects of Byron's life and works, recently edited a special issue of The Byron Journal, and is currently researching Byron's engagement with adultery discourses in English print culture. She is based in Dubai, UAE, where she works as Head of Publishing for Knowledge E.
Alan Rawes is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. His publications include Byron's Poetic Experimentation (2000), English Romanticism and the Celtic World (co-edited, 2003), Romantic Biography (co-edited, 2003), Romanticism and Form (edited, 2007), Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom (co-edited, 2010), a special issue of Litteraria Pragensia on 'Byron in Italy' (co-edited, 2014), and Byron and Italy (co-edited, 2017) He is a past editor of The Byron Journal (2005–12), and currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron. He is also a Joint President of the International Association of Byron Societies.
Julian S. Whitney is Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College, Indiana. His research includes British Romanticism, law and literature, Gothic fiction, and critical race studies. His forthcoming essay 'A Black Manifesto: Ottobah Cugoano's Radical Romanticism' in Studies in Romanticism examines how the eighteenth-century Black Atlantic abolitionist Quobna Ottobah Cugoano uses his antislavery writings to reject racial categories to advance a philosophy of human equality. He is also author of shorter essays 'Neo-Victorian Afterlives: Time, Empire, and the Occult in Final Fantasy VIII' (The Journal of Victorian Culture Online) and 'The Name Game: Ottobah Cugoano and the Title of Christian' (Keats-Shelley Association of America). He is currently writing an article about the Gothic in Japanese anime.
