Notes on Contributors
LANCE BERTELSEN is Iris Howard Regents Professor in English Literature Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture 1749–1764 (Clarendon, 1986) and Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). His essays appear in such journals as ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Modern Philology, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, The Mariner's Mirror, and Southwest Review.
ALISON CONWAY is Professor of English and Cultural Studies/Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Her most recent monograph is Sacred Engagements: Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750–1820 (Johns Hopkins, 2023).
HUMBERTO GARCIA is Professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He studies eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature in a global context, with an emphasis on Anglo-Islamic relations. His research on the intersections of race, gender, class, and orientalism in the literature and art of this period has appeared in numerous journals, such as Studies in Romanticism, ELH, and Comparative Literature. Among his most important publications are Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (Johns Hopkins, 2012) and England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 (Cambridge, 2020). Both books were funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
CHRISTOPHER NAGLE teaches literature of the long eighteenth century, literary and critical theory, and diverse forms of literary adaptation at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); essays and reviews appearing in ELH, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Women's Writing, Aphra Behn Online, and Journal of Popular Culture; and essays in numerous collections, including The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen (Routledge, 2021), Jane Austen and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2021), and the forthcoming collection Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century. His current work focuses on the global afterlives of Austen adaptations on the stage.
HINA NAZAR is Associate Professor of English and a faculty affiliate of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her research focuses on early modern British moral philosophy, early modern women's writing, and political theory, tracing the development of the modern ideal of self-governance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is the author of Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility (Fordham, 2012) and is currently working on a book project that argues for the importance of a broadly hedonistic vocabulary of appetite and pleasure to seventeenth-century English moral philosophy's understandings of moral freedom and self-governance. Her publications have appeared in journals including The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, The Review of Politics, ELH, and The Yale Journal of Criticism, and in edited volumes such as A Companion to George Eliot (Wiley, 2016) and The Lockean Mind, Judgment and Action: Fragments Toward a History (Routledge, 2021).
RACHEL RAMSEY is Associate Professor of English at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the literary history of the sash window and the politics of stained glass in the novel.
CAROLINE ANJALI RITCHIE is Graham Reynolds Curatorial Fellow in British Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is the author of two books on the work of William Blake: an academic monograph entitled William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination: Maps, Diagrams, Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) and an introductory guide to Blake's art for the series "Tate Artists" entitled William Blake (Tate, 2024).
ANNA K. SAGAL is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, with a research focus on British women's writing and the history of science. She has essays published or forthcoming on botanical abortifacients, seaweed books, science and epistolary narrative, disability and the novel, women's entomological study in periodicals, taxonomy in poetry, and more. Her first book, Botanical Entanglements, was published by UVA Press in 2022, and she is currently working on a second monograph project, Transatlantic Specimens, which examines women's literary and artistic engagement with marine ecology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain and the West Indies.
YANRONG TAN received their Master's in English Literature (1830–1914) from the University of Oxford in 2025. Their research interests include the cognitive humanities, disability and mental health, and speculative fiction. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and The Journal of the Wooden O.
LUKE VINES, PhD, is an independent scholar. His research is focused on the epistolary form, the influence of math and science on literature, and making literary studies accessible to general readers. He is the assistant editor of a forthcoming volume of Anna Letitia Barbauld's literary criticism for Oxford University Press.
DONGQING WANG is Professor of English at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China. He received his PhD in English from the University of Hong Kong. He works on Sino-Western cultural exchange since the eighteenth century, and his recent research focuses on the literary history of Enlightenment science.
AIA H. YOUSEF is an advising dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and an adjunct lecturer in the English department at Georgetown University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and works mainly at the intersection of the history and theory of the novel, translation studies, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature.
The editors of The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation are grateful to Lily Palo for her editorial assistance on this issue.
