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Series Editor

Series editor for History of the Book, publishing single-author texts and monographs. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005-present.

Editor

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed: 1789-1819. Under contract. London: Pickering and Chatto To be published, 2010-2016.

This 24-volume set broadens our understanding of the place of women authors in the Romantic period. As far as it is possible, RWWR collects, annotates, and provides appropriate textual apparatus for all reviews published in British literary periodicals concerning texts by (or reputed to be by) women: to date, we have identified over 3600 reviews of over 450 women writers.

Volumes 1-3: 1789-1792, to be published in 2010
Volumes 4-6: 1793-1796, to be published in 2011
Volumes 7-9: 1797-1802, to be published in 2012
Volumes 10-12: 1803-1807, to be published in 2013
Volumes 13-15: 1808-1810, to be published in 2014
Volumes 16-18: 1810-1812, to be published in 2015
Volumes 17-21: 1813-1815, to be published in 2016
Volumes 22-24: 1816-1819, to be published in 2017

Managing Editor

Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 38.1 (Spring 2006)-present. Issues of Conradiana, beginning with 38.1, are available via Project Muse.

Scholarly Editions

Victims of Society (1837) by Marguerite Farmer Power Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Vol. 4 in Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005.

Henrietta Temple (1837) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 5 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli," London: Pickering and Chatto, 2004.

Venetia (1836) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 6 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli," London: Pickering and Chatto, 2004.

Essay Collection

Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long-Nineteenth Century. Co-edited with Maura Ives. London and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2009.

Teaching Bibliography, Book History and Textual Criticism. An edited collection. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006.

Guest Curator

"Marketing Shakespeare--The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, 1788-1805, and Beyond. " An Exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, September 20, 2007 - January 5, 2008.

Articles

"Reconstructing the Boydell Shakspeare Gallery." Shakespeare Yearbook. Forthcoming 2008. 35 pages. Peer-Reviewed.

"Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington and Rambles in Waltham Forest." Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press, 2008. 19 pages. Invited.

"Teaching the Skills of Documentary Editing." Journal of Documentary Editing 28.1 (Spring 2006): 136-42. Invited.

"Marketing Gender and Nationalism: Blessington's Gems of Beauty / L'Ecrin" Women's Writing 12.2 (2005): 225-41. Peer-reviewed.

"'Evoking Byron': the Manuscript and First Edition of Benjamin Disraeli's Venetia (1837)." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 98.4 (December 2004): 449-76. Invited and Peer-reviewed.

"'Formed with Curious Skill': Blessington's Negotiation of the 'Poetess' in Flowers of Loveliness." The Transatlantic Poetess: A special issue of Romanticism-On-the-Net. Ed. Laura Mandell. January 2004. 30 pages. Peer-reviewed.

"Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. E. L. (Letitia E. Landon): Evidence of a Friendship." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 16.2 (Spring 2003): 27-32. Peer-reviewed.

"Mrs. Baillie's Testicles: Byron's Revision of De Monfort in Manfred" Recent Perspectives on European Romanticism. Ed. Larry Peer. Mellen Studies in Literature/Romantic Reassessment, Vol. 158. Lewiston: Mellen P, 2003: 105-38. ISBN: 0-7734-6984-2. Peer-reviewed.

"'Delectable' Books for 'Delicate' Readers: the 1830s Giftbook Market, Ackermann and Co, and the Countess of Blessington." Kentucky Philological Review March 2002: 20-26. Peer-reviewed.

"'Belonging to the Other Powers': Literary Intertexts, Astarte, and Byron's New World-View," Kentucky Philological Review 8 (March 1993): 21-28. Peer-reviewed.

Journal Issue Editor

A Special Issue of CEA Critic on Children's and Adolescent Literature. Co-edited. 64.4 (Fall 2002).

Scholarly Resource

Editor, Byron Chronology Romantic Circles: Scholarly Resources A peer-reviewed collection of resources on Romanticism and Romantic writers.

Review Essays

"Women Speaking, Women Writing: Identity and Voice in an Age of Revolution." Eighteenth Century Studies. 36.6 (Spring 2003): 449-55. Invited.

Selected Short Essays

"Art and Artists: Great Britain-United States." Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Eds. Will Kauffman & Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson. London: ABC-Clio, 2005. Vol. 1: 113-119.

"Countess of Blessington: a bio-bibliographical essay." Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

Reviews

Review of David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery's An Introduction to Book History. Routledge, 2005. SHARP Newsletter 15.2/3 (2006): 15. Invited.

Review of William J. P. Neish's The Speaking Eye-Byron's Aberdeen, People, Places, and a Poem. East Sussex: Book Guild Ltd, 2001. Romantic Circles Reviews, 6.1 (Spring) 2003. http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/neish.html

Review of Zachary Leader's Revision and Romantic Authorship. Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online. 2001.

Work In Progress

Byron and the Shakespeare Trade, a book-length study of Shakespearean commodification between 1780 and 1820, and of Byron's reaction and response, particularly in his letters & journals and in Manfred

"Forging a Professional Identity: Graduate Student Discourse in Informal Professional Settings," an essay planned for submission to ADE Bulletin

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