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Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has written extensively on English Renaissance literature and acts as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Will in the World, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Eric Eisner (Ph.D. Harvard), The Romantic Period, is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. His teaching and research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, especially Romanticism, lyric poetry, and the history of authorship and of reading. His book Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity treats Byron, Keats, P. B. Shelley, L.E.L., and Barrett Browning, among other poets. He edited a volume of essays on Romantic Fandom in the Romantic Circles Praxis series. He is currently working on a book on Keats and contemporary American poetry. Published articles include essays on Keats and recent American poetry, on women poets and the city, and on teaching Jane Austen with the Gothic. Deidre Shauna Lynch (Ph.D. Stanford), The Romantic Period, is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. Her books include Loving Literature: A Cultural History, the prize-winning The Economy of Character, and (as co-editor) Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees and Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She has edited Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion and the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has won multiple teaching awards. |
