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Dawn Bellamyis a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University
of Bristol. She has recently been awarded a Ph.D. for her thesis ‘Keith Douglas and
Influence’.
Matthew Bevisis a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of
York. He has recently published articleson a range of Victorian writers, and a book
on Tennyson for the Pickering & Chatto series,Lives of Victorian Literary Figures
(2003). He is now completing a monograph on the relations between oratory and
literature,The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce(2007), and editing
a collection of essays,Some Versions of Empson(2007).
Fran Breartonis Reader in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. She is author of
The Great War in Irish Poetry(2000) andReading Michael Longley(2006), and gave
the 2004 British Academy Chatterton Lecture on Robert Graves’s poetry.
Tara Christieis a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University, where she specializes in
twentieth-century British and Irish literature and seventeenth-century Metaphysical
poetry. Her essay ‘Seamus Heaney’s Hardy’ appears in the Summer 2004 issue of
The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society. She is currently
working on a dissertation entitled ‘Modernism, the Metaphysical Poets, and the
First World War’.
Sarah Coleis an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on twentieth-century
British literature and culture. Her first book,Modernism, Male Friendship, and the
First World War(2003), focuses on institutions of masculine intimacy in the late
Victorian and early modernist period. She is currently working on a project about
violence and aesthetics in the twentieth century.
Brendan Corcoranis an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Indiana
State University, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century Irish and British
poetry. A biographical essay on Seamus Heaney is forthcoming in theDictionary of
Literary BiographyvolumeNobel Laureates in Literature(2006). He is working on a
project examining the elegy in twentieth-century Irish poetry.
Santanu Dasis currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary,
UniversityofLondon,andaformerResearchFellowatStJohn’sCollege,Cambridge.