Contributors to this Issue

Chris Murray is a senior lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University. He is the author of Tragic Coleridge (Routledge, 2013) and China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793–1938 (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and his current project on Romantic receptions of Daoism includes his essays “Coleridge’s Daoism?” (Wordsworth Circle, 2020) and “Yeats’s Faustian Meditations” (Irish University Review, 2023). He is also at work on a project concerning the Australian reception of Romanticism with Alexis Harley and Claire Knowles, which includes the essay “Prophet Against Empire? Blake in Australia” (Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 2023).Mattias Pirholt is a professor in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University. He is author of Grenzerfahrungen: Studien zu Goethes Ästhetik (Winter, 2018) and co-editor of Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics with Karl Axelsson and Camilla Flodin (Routledge, 2021). Professor Pirholt has also been a visiting scholar at Free University Berlin, the University of Tubingen, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ***Emily Harrington is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Harrington is the author of Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse (Virginia University Press, 2014) and “Richard Le Gallienne and the Rhymers: Masculine Minority in the 1890s,” in Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture (edited by Joseph Bristow; University of Toronto Press, 2023). Her work has also appeared in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, and Studies in English Literature, and her most recent piece, “Night Lights: the 1890s Nocturne,” is forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1890s (edited by Dustin Friedman and Kristin Mahoney; Cambridge University Press).Anne Stiles is a Professor of English and Coordinator of Medical Humanities at Saint Louis University. Stiles is the author of Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure”: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She edited Neurology and Literature, 1866–1920 (Palgrave, 2007) and co-edited two volumes published by Elsevier in 2013 as part of their Progress in Brain Research series. Stiles has also held long-term grants from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2016–2017); the Huntington Library (2009–2010); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006–2007). She is currently writing about popular misunderstandings of radioactivity in the later fiction of bestselling author Marie Corelli.Timothy Sweet is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He has written numerous books on the Civil War and environmental humanities, including Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crises of the Union (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Literary Cultures of the Civil War (editor; University of Georgia Press, 2016), American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), and Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). Professor Sweet is also the 2023 recipient of the Henry David Thoreau Society’s Walter Harding Award for distinguished achievement.Melissa Gniadek is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Professor Gniadek is the author of Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century U.S. engagement with the Pacific and literary engagement with histories of settler colonialism. Currently, Professor Gniadek is at work on a monograph concerned with unsettling temporalities of settlement in nineteenth-century American literature. She is also at work on another project about Herman Melville and trees in global contexts.Erik Gray is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), Milton and the Victorians (Cornell University Press, 2009), and The Art of Love Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2018). Professor Gray is also co-editor of a forthcoming anthology of Victorian poetry from Broadview Press.

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