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Notes on Contributors
G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English at Columbia University,
is currently president of the Bibliographical Society of the University
of Virginia, which recently reprinted two of his books, Textual Criticism and
Scholarly Editing and The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers.
James McLaverty is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University. He
edited David Foxon's Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade
(1991) and has explored some of the implications of that study in Pope, Print,
and Meaning (2001).
Michael Hancher, chair of the department of English at the University
of Minnesota, has published many essays on Victorian writers and artists,
as well as articles on intention and interpretation, speech-act theory, pragmatics,
and the law. His work on pictorial illustration includes The Tenniel
Illustrations to the "Alice" Books and several studies of illustrated dictionaries.
"Familiar Quotations," his investigation of John Bartlett's Collection
of Familiar Quotations (1855), will appear in the Harvard Library Bulletin.
P. J. Klemp, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh,
has published textual studies of Lancelot Andrewes in PBSA, The
Bodleian Library Record, and Review. An Associate Editor of Milton Quarterly
and a member of the Editorial Board of Milton Studies, he is also the
Associate General Editor of the volumes of the new Variorum Commentary
on the Poems of John Milton that are devoted to Paradise Lost and Samson
Agonistes.
Jill Farringdon is a retired academic (with degrees in English Literature
and Language) who has lectured in establishments of higher education both
in literature and pedagogy. She has published literary-critical articles, reviewed
regularly for poetry magazines, and has been a co-researcher into authorship
attribution with her husband, Dr. Michael Farringdon, since the
mid-1970s. In 1988, she joined in the developing of A. Q. Morton's cusum
analysis, and, after extensive researches, was principal author and editor
of the subsequent book about the technique (1996). In 1997, she was
awarded the Calvin Hoffman prize for her essay "Attributing Shakespeare
and Marlowe."
Martin C. Battestin is an authority on Fielding's life and works, and
the author of New Essays by Henry Fielding: His Contributions to the
Craftsman (1734-1739) and Other Early Journalism (1989).
William McCarthy, Professor of English Emeritus (Iowa State University),
Poetry and Prose of Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001), and Volume Five of The
Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (to be published by Cambridge University
Press). He is writing a new biography of Barbauld.
Marcus Walsh, who is Professor of English Literature and Head of the
Department of English at the University of Birmingham, has edited with
Karina Williamson the Oxford University Press Poetical Works of Christopher
Smart, and has written extensively on Smart, Swift, Johnson, and
Sterne, on the history and theory of editing, and on biblical interpretation
and scholarship in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His study of
Shakespeare, Milton, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing was published
in 1997 by Cambridge University Press. He is currently editing Swift's Tale
of a Tub for CUP.
R. Carter Hailey is an assistant professor of English at the College of
William and Mary. He is editing Robert Crowley's 1550 editions of Piers
Plowman, the earliest printed texts of the poem, for the Early English Booktrade
Database, a bibliographical database that will function as an augmentation
of the ESTC. He also designed and builds the COMET portable optical
collator.
Pamela Clemit is Reader in English Studies at the University of Durham,
U.K. She is the author of The Godwinian Novel (1993, reprinted 2001).
She has edited numerous scholarly and critical editions of Godwin's writings,
two volumes in Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (1996), and, most
recently, "Life of William Godwin" in Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and
Other Writings.
David Woolls is the founder of CFL Software Development, a U.K.
Company providing software programs and consultancy services in the area
of computational forensic linguistics. He is the author of several computer
programs used in the fields of language learning and testing, translation
studies and forensic textual analysis.
David Chandler obtained his D.Phil at the University of Oxford and is
now a lecturer in English Literature at Doshisha University, Kyoto. He has
published many articles on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
British literature and has also edited William Hazlitt's The Fight and Other
Writings for Penguin.
Andrew M. Stauffer is an assistant professor of English at Boston University.
He has published articles on Byron, Shelley, Godwin, Blake, Rossetti,
and the Brownings, and is currently completing a book-length study entitled
Fits of Rage: Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism.
Roger Osborne is currently conducting research on Australian magazine
culture for AustLit: the Australian Literature Gateway at the University of
Queensland. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of Joseph
Conrad's Under Western Eyes, and he is currently analysing the publication
of Conrad's Victory in Munsey's Magazine and the London Star.
Arthur Sherbo continues to grub in the periodicals. His "Contributions
to the Canon and Text of Padraic Colum's Writings" recently appeared in
PBSA. The present article is another instance of grubbing.
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