Essay Contributors
- Essay Contributors
Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in English at Keele University. His research interests include the literature of the Romantic period, ‘thing’ theory and the object matter of nineteenth-century literature, and the representation of alcohol in literature and the arts. His major publications include The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost (2009), Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom (2010) and Literary bric-à-brac and the Victorians (2012). He is currently writing a book titled The Hangover: A Cultural History, 1600–2000 for Liverpool University Press.
Heather Stansbury is an instructor in English at the University of Washington, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on representations of incest in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature.
Mary Hurst gained her PhD from the University of Liverpool and is now Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University, where she is also the organiser of the Romantic Research Forum lecture series. She has written on Byron’s religions and Byron’s ghosts, and is currently writing on Byron and solitude and researching for a project on Jane Austen and female accomplishments.
N. E. Gayle is Head of Classics at Exmouth Community College, where he teaches Latin, Greek and Classical Civilisation. He has given seminar papers at Exeter University on ‘Composing in the Ancient World’, ‘Homeric Music’, ‘Reconstructing Anacreon’, ‘Sophoclean Puzzles’ and the Roman astrological poet Manilius. The essay published in this issue of The Byron Journal is his first foray into the world of Byron Studies. However, he is currently engaged, long-term, in a poetic continuation of Don Juan.
Erin Sheley is a Visiting Associate Professor in Law at the George Washington University, where she is also a doctoral student in English. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between criminal law and cultural narrative, both in the present day and the nineteenth century. Her work has appeared in The Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Romanticism on the Net, the Indiana Law Journal, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Michigan State Law Review and the Journal of Animal Law. She holds a bachelor of arts degree and a postgraduate degree in law from Harvard University. [End Page vii]
