Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Bernard Beatty is a 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 Byron's Don Juan (1985) and Byron's Don Juan and Other Poems (1987). He has edited three collections of essays on Byron and written on Romanticism, the Bible and aspects of literary theory. He was editor of The Byron Journal from 1986 to 2004. Pending publications are on the theological idea of beauty, Shelley and the theatre, authenticity in Pope, Newman and Byron, and Victorian bric-a-brac.
Pearl Chaozon Bauer is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. She is working on a project that centres on the notion that marriage has never had a singular, fixed formulation. As she traces the epithalamium's development in relation to the changes that took place during the reformation of Victorian marriage laws, she investigates the ways in which the genre, typically associated with traditional marriage rituals and customs, is destabilised and subverted.
Timothy Webb is a Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus of the University of Bristol, where he was Winterstoke Professor and Head of the Department of English. He has written and lectured widely on Romantic topics (especially on Shelley and Byron) and Irish topics (including Yeats and Joyce). Work in progress includes a two-volume annotated edition of Leigh Hunt's Autobiography (now with Oxford University Press) and an investigation of English Romantic writers and Ireland.
Arden Hegele has studied at the University of Toronto and at Columbia University, where she is currently a doctoral student. She has published articles on Jane Austen and eighteenth-century drama, and recently wrote a Master's thesis examining genre-mixing in works by Byron and Peacock.
Itsuyo Higashinaka, Professor Emeritus at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, was educated at Osaka University and the University of Alberta. He was one of the organisers of the 28th International Byron Society Conference, which was held at Ryukoku Univeristy in 2002. He is the author of Byron the Protean Poet (2010) and has translated Beppo, The Vision of Judgment, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and other texts into Japanese. [End Page vii]
