- Julie Ellison (University of Michigan, USA): Ellison is Professor of American Culture, English, and Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her scholarly work ranges across the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, with particular emphasis on gender, emotion, politics, and genre. Among other awards, Ellison has received an NEH fellowship and lectured in New Zealand as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She has also worked collaboratively with academics and artists in South Africa. Ellison’s articles have appeared in American Literature, Studies in Romanticism, American Literary History, Critical Inquiry, ELH, and MLQ, and in a number of edited volumes. Her monographs include Emerson’s Romantic Style (Princeton, 1984), Delicate Subjects (Cornell, 1990), and Cato’s Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion (Chicago, 1999). Her current book project is “Lyric Citizenship: The Public Project of the Humanities.”
- Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford, UK): Halmi is University Lecturer in English Literature of the Romantic Period at Oxford University and Margaret Candfield Fellow of University College, Oxford. Comparative and interdisciplinary in approach, his research is concerned generally with Enlightenment and Romantic intellectual and literary history, and particularly with questions of modernity and its discontents. He has examined the Romantic concept of the symbol and related synecdochical concepts his book The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (OUP, 2007) and articles on Coleridge, Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Northrop Frye; and he is currently publishing on Byron’s modernity and on ideas of history in the long eighteenth century. His contributions to textual scholarship include the Opus Maximum volume of Coleridge’s Collected Works(2002, as textual editor), Norton Critical Editions of Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose (2003, as co-editor) and Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose (forthcoming), and a newly annotated edition of Frye’s Fearful Symmetry (2004). He is an advisory editor of the recently launched Oxford Scholarly Editions Online project, and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University in winter 2011.
- Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie University, Canada): Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, where she teaches in the Department of English and the European Studies program. Her research focusses on questions of nationhood and nationality in British and Irish Romanticism, including the idea of a national literature and its impact on canon-formation as well as the ways in which cross-national influences challenge such divisions. These interests have also led her to co-edit, with Kevin Hutchings, Ashgate’s Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio University Press, 2004), winner of the Northeast MLA Book Award, and Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback, 2009), and over thirty articles in various refereed journals and essay collections, including ELH, European Romantic Review, Irish Studies Review, Romantic Poetry, Mary Shelley’s Fictions, and the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.
