Contributors to this Issue

Andrea Kelly Henderson is a Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. Henderson is the author of Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity, 1774–1830 (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Her most recent book, Algebraic Art: Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture (Oxford University Press, 2018), is a study of formal abstraction in Victorian mathematics and literature. Henderson’s most recent essay, “Victorian Equations” (Critical Inquiry, 2024), reflects her current focus on theories of number in nineteenth-century mathematics, political economy, and fiction.Jeffrey N. Cox is a Distinguished Professor in English and Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. His contributions to studies in Romanticism include In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (Ohio University Press, 1987), Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and their Circle (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Romanticism in the Shadow of War: The Culture of the Napoleonic War Years (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and William Wordsworth, Second Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which won the Marilyn Gaull Book Prize. He is currently working on Byron and occasional poetry. ***Carolyn Lesjak is Professor and Chair of English at Simon Fraser University, and an associate member of SFU’s Labour Studies Program. She is the author of Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Duke University Press, 2007) and The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons (Stanford University Press, 2021). She has published essays in numerous journals, including ELH, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Victorian Literature and Culture, Criticism and Historical Materialism, and edited collections on Marxist theory, nineteenth-century literature and culture, and contemporary criticism.Ivan Ortiz is an Associate Professor of English at the University of San Diego. His essays have appeared in Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in the Novel. He is currently finishing a book about modern transport and aesthetic cultures in British Romanticism.Matthew Sussman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and editor, with Margaret Harris, of Antipodean George Eliot (Routledge, 2023). Sussman is currently working on a history of pluralism in literary criticism and theory.Daniel Wright is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Grounds of the Novel (Stanford University Press, 2024) and Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).Thomas Hallock is a Professor of English at the University of South Florida. He is the author of A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst (University of Alabama Press, 2021) and From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a Natural Pastoral, 1749–1826 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) and is the editor, with Nancy Hoffman, of William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Letters, Art, and Unpublished Writings (University of Georgia Press, 2010). Hallock is currently at work on a selection of sixteenth-century poems in translation, The Epic of Florida: Juan de Castellanos, Bartolomé de Flores, and Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo.