Andrew Elfenbein is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. He is the author of Byron and the Victorians (1995) and Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role (1999). He is currently engaged on a project involving the history of socialism and sexuality.
Mary A. Favret is Associate Professor in the English department at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, where she teaches courses on British Romanticism, among other things. She is the author of Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (1993) and the coeditor of At the Limits of Romanticism (1994). The legacy of Jane Austen and the representation of war in the romantic era currently compete for her research time and attention.
Tom Furniss is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of several articles and essays on Wollstonecraft, while his Edmund Burke’s Aesthetic Ideology (1993) includes an account of Wollstonecraft’s engagement with Burke. He is currently working on two books about the discourse of radical nationalism.
Cora Kaplan is Professor of English at Southampton University. The author of Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (1986), her most recent book, coauthored with David Glover, is Genders (2000). A new collection of her essays Victorians: Histories, Fictions, Criticisms will be published in 2002. She is now completing a book on Gender and Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain.
Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (1988),
Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995). She is currently finishing
Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, which investigates
the permutations of Austen’s mythic status from the Victorian period to the present, and
Raising the Novel, which ponders the history of novel studies.
Chris Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor. His Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s (1993) explores radical developments in the ideas and techniques of sensibility across gender and genre. He has published articles on the prose writers of the period, including Godwin, Hazlitt, and Helen Maria Williams and is currently working on Jane Austen.
Vivien Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is editor of Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (1990), and of Women and Literature in Britain, 1700–1800 (2000), and has published widely on Wollstonecraft and on gender and writing in the eighteenth century. She is currently completing a book on Contexts for Jane Austen, and is General Editor of the Oxford World’s Classics Jane Austen.
Anne K. Mellor is Professor Above Scale at UCLA. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on women’s writing and British Romantic literature, including Blake’s Human Form Divine (1974), English Romantic Irony (1980), Romanticism and Feminism, ed. (1988), Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1988), Romanticism and Gender (1993), British Literature, 1780–1830, ed. with Richard Matlak (1996), and Mothers of the Nation – Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830 (2000). She is currently working on the intersection of race and gender in British Romantic-era writing.
Mitzi Myers teaches English and writing at UCLA. She has published many authoritative essays on Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth and children’s literature. She is currently working on a literary life of Maria Edgeworth, the Norton Anthology of Children’s and Young Adult’s Literature, and the subject of war and violence from the Irish Rebellion of 1798 to modern times.
Alan Richardson is Professor of English at Boston College. His books include British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (2001), Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780–1832 (1994), and (as co-editor) Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture 1780–1834 (1996). He has also published numerous essays on Romantic-era literature and culture, particularly in relation to gender, childhood and education, colonialism, and early neuroscience.
Barbara Taylor teaches history at the University of East London, and is an editor of the History Workshop Journal and director of the international
research project, “Feminism and Enlightenment, 1650–1850.” Her book
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Radical Imagination will be published in 2002.
Janet Todd is the Francis Hutcheson Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She has written many books on women writers and has recently completed two biographies, The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (1996) and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (2000). She has just edited the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and is working on a study of Wollstonecraft’s pupil Margaret King.
Susan J. Wolfson Professor of English at Princeton University, is the author of Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (1997), coeditor of The Romantics and their Contemporaries (1999), editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Keats, and a contributor to several other Romantic-era volumes in this series.