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David Duff

Nick Groom

Jon Mee

Simon Bainbridge

Kelvin Everest

Angela Esterhammer

Fiona Stafford

Penny Fielding

Mary-Ann Constantine

Jim Kelly

Michael Bradshaw

Brian Goldberg

Gary Kelly

Anne K. Mellor

Susan Manly

David Worrall

Gillian Russell

Anthony Howe

William Christie

Victoria Myers

Thomas Keymer

Noel Jackson

Sharon Ruston

Catherine Jones

Erik Simpson

Jane Stabler

Beth Lau

Pamela Clemit

Paul Keen

Michael Gamer

Tom Mole

Felicity James

Lynda Pratt

Jane Hodson

Judith Thompson

Michael Rossington

Stephen C. Behrendt

Andrew Bennett

Tim Milnes

Gregory Dart

Sophie Thomas

Kirsteen McCue

Nicholas Halmi

James Watt

James Vigus

Patrick Vincent

Fiona Robertson

Simon Bainbridge is Professor of Romantic Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of Napoleon and English Romanticism (1995) and British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict (2003), and editor of Romanticism: A Sourcebook (2008). He has published many journal articles and essays on Romanticism, especially in relation to its historical context. He is a past president of the British Association for Romantic Studies. He is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Romanticism and Mountaineering: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 17601837.

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor at the University of Nebraska. He has published and edited widely in Romantic-era literature and culture, including print and electronic editions of neglected Scottish and Irish women poets and a related monograph, British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community (2009). He is also a published poet whose fourth collection, Refractions, appeared in 2014.

Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He is editor of William Wordsworth in Context (2015), and author of Wordsworth Writing (2007), Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity (1999), and Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing (1994). His other books include Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology (2009), The Author (2005), Katherine Mansfield (2004), and, with Nicholas Royle, This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (2015), An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (5th edn, 2016), and Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel (1995).

Michael Bradshaw is Professor of English and Head of the Institute of Humanities at the University of Worcester. He has published on a range of Romantic authors and themes, including Darley, Hood, Keats, Landor, the Shelleys, the London Magazine, and Romantic fragment poems. He is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2001), editor of Deaths Jest-Book: The 1829 Text (2003), co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2007), and editor of Disabling Romanticism: Body, Mind, and Text (2016).

William Christie is Head of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, a Fellow and Head of the English Section at the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Director of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres, and was founding President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia. His publications include Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (2006)awarded the New South Wales Premiers Biennial Prize for Literary ScholarshipThe Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain (2009), Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life (2014), and The Two Romanticisms and Other Essays (2015).

Pamela Clemit is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She is the author of The Godwinian Novel (1993) and has published many journal articles on William Godwin and his intellectual circle. She has published a dozen or so scholarly and critical editions of Godwins and Mary Shelleys writings, including St Leon (1994) and Caleb Williams (2009) for Oxford Worlds Classics. She is the General Editor of the Oxford University Press edition of The Letters of William Godwin, 6 vols: Volume I: 17781797, edited by her, appeared in 2011; Volume II: 17981805, also edited by her, appeared in 2014. She is currently editing Volume IV: 18161828.

Mary-Ann Constantine is Reader at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, where she works on British and European Romanticism with a focus on Wales and Brittany. She is particularly interested in travel writing, the dynamics of cultural and linguistic translation, and in the recovery and re-uses of the medieval past and of popular song. Recent publications include The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery (2007), and (ed. with Nigel Leask), Enlightenment Travel and British Identities: Thomas Pennants Tours in Wales and Scotland (2017).

Gregory Dart is Professor of Romantic Period Literature at University College London. He is the author of two monographs, Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism (1999) and Metropolitan Art and Literature 18101840: Cockney Adventures (2012). He has published two editions of Hazlitts writings, and co-edited the collection Restless Cites (2010) with his colleague Matthew Beaumont. He is currently editing three volumes of the new Oxford University Press edition of the Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, a project for which he is also General Editor.