General Editors
Michael Gamer is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (Cambridge, 2000) and Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (Cambridge, 2017). He writes broadly on Romantic culture, and is (with Angela Wright) general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe. His essays on the Gothic, book history, poetic collections, performing animals and dramas of spectacle, Jane Austen, gender and performance, periodicals, early novel canons, authorship, and pornography have appeared in MLQ, PMLA, Novel, ELH, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Studies in Romanticism, and other journals.
Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, and Project Lead for the AHRC-sponsored project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’. A former co-President of the International Gothic Association, Angela’s major publications include Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820 (Cambridge University Press); Mary Shelley (University of Wales Press); and the edited collections Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (2014, with Dale Townshend), Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2015, with Dale Townshend), and the award-winning three volume Cambridge History of the Gothic (2020-2, with Dale Townshend and Catherine Spooner). With Michael Gamer, Angela is general co-editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, and is editing The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) for the edition.
Project Co-Leads/Volume Editors
Katrina O’Loughlin is a Reader in English at Brunel University.
Deborah Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of York. Her research interests focus on Romantic-period Gothic fiction and drama, with a particular emphasis on women’s writing. Her publications include articles on authors such as Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, and Horace Walpole, as well as essays on Gothic romance, madhouse literature, and the early Gothic novel in Britain. She is co-founder of the Gothic Women Project and co-editor of the upcoming collection, The Routledge Companion to Gothic Women Writers. For this project, she is editing Ann Radcliffe’s first novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne.
Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His most recent publications include Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840 (OUP, 2019); the three-volume The Cambridge History of the Gothic (co-edited with Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner; CUP, 2020–21); and Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture (UWP, 2024). With Elizabeth Bobbitt, he is editing Ann Radcliffe’s posthumous works for the Cambridge edition.
Volume Editors
Elizabeth Bobbitt is a research associate at the University of York. Her research focuses on Ann Radcliffe’s post-1797 texts which include Radcliffe’s last published novel, Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and her fascinating variety of narrative and lyrical verse. Her publications include “Negotiating Gothic Nationalisms in Ann Radcliffe’s Post-1797 Texts: Gaston de Blondeville and St Alban’s Abbey” in Women’s Authorship and the Early Gothic for University of Wales Press (2020) and “Ann Radcliffe’s Post-1797 Works: Edwy; a Poem, in Three Parts and the Topographical Gothic” in Essays in Romanticism for University of Liverpool Press (2022). She is thrilled to be co-editing Radcliffe’s posthumously-published works with Dale Townshend for Cambridge University Press.
Tom Duggett is Reader in English Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University (XJTLU; Suzhou, China) and Honorary Fellow in the Department of English, University of Liverpool. He is the author of Gothic Romanticism (2010), a study of Wordsworth, Coleridge and the ancient constitution which received the 28th Modern Language Association of America Prize for Independent Scholars for Distinguished Research in Language and Literature, and was re-released in an expanded second edition by Palgrave Gothic in 2022. Tom’s two-volume scholarly edition of Robert Southey’s Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829) was published in the Pickering Masters series in 2018. His work has appeared in journals such as Review of English Studies, Romanticism and The Wordsworth Circle, and he has contributed chapters on history, religion and architecture to recent volumes including The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022), The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose (2024) and The Cambridge History of The Gothic (2020).
Robert Miles is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Victoria, B.C. Canada. Prior to Victoria he held posts at the University of Stirling, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Sheffield. A specialist in the literature of the Romantic period, his books include Gothic Writing 1750-1820: a Genealogy (1993); Ann Radcliffe: the Great Enchantress (1995), Romantic Misfits (2008) and an edition of The Italian for Penguin (2000).
Research Associate
Rosie Whitcombe is an AHRC-funded Research and Innovation Associate for the Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now project. She has published on Radcliffe and Keats, and her essay, ‘Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Distance in the Letters of John Keats’, won the 2020 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize. She is currently working on her first monograph, John Keats and the Letter. She is also one third of educational YouTube channel, Books ‘n’ Cats, where she disseminates literary research to a wide audience.