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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),
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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