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 fifteen books, including The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Will in the World, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. 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. 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. Catherine Robson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley), The Victorian Age, is Professor of English at New York University and Academic Director of NYU London; she is also a faculty member of the Dickens Project. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem, and has received fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the University of California, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and ACLS. Rachel Ablow (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), The Victorian Age, is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. She specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture with research and teaching interests in the history and theory of the novel, the history of medicine, and the histories of epistemology, the sensations, and the emotions. She is the author ofThe Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot and Victorian Pain, and the editor of a special issue of Victorian Studies on “Victorian Feelings” (2008), a volume of essays entitled The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature, and a special issue of Representations on “The Social Life of Pain.” She is currently editor of the journal Victorian Literature and Culture. Jahan Ramazani (Ph.D. Yale and M.Phil. Oxford), The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia, previously the Mayo NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is the author of Transnational Poetics, which won the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and of Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime. He is coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Ramazani is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association. Aarthi Vadde (Ph.D. Wisconsin), The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, which won the Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. She is the co-editor of The Critic as Amateur and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center for her book-in-progress We the Platform: Contemporary Literature after Web 2.0. She is also the co-founder of Novel Dialogue, a podcast about how novels are made--and what to make of them.
