Mary Fairclough is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.

She is the author of two monographs: The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Literature Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: Electrick Communication Every Where (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and of several essays and articles which investigate the intersection of literature, science and politics in the eighteenth century and Romantic period.

These include studies of Percy Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the work of Thomas Beddoes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Erasmus Darwin and John Thelwall.

Deirdre Coleman has published widely on the intersection of British Romanticism with antislavery, natural history, colonialism, and racial ideology. Her most recent book is Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the late Eighteenth Century (Liverpool UP, 2018).

Dr Miriam Ross is Senior Lecturer in the Film Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. She works with new technologies to combine practice-based methods and traditional academic analysis. Her publications include South American Cinematic Culture: Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition (2010) and 3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences (2015) as well as journal articles on film industries, new cinema technologies, stereoscopic media, virtual reality and film festivals. Her short films and virtual reality works have been screened internationally and her video essays have been published in online journals. She is also co-founder and administrator of Stereoscopic media.

Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the English Department at the University of York. He came to York in 2013 after seven years at the University of Warwick as Professor of English and over a decade in the English Faculty at Oxford where he was Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College and Professor of the Literature of the Romantic Period.

His most recent book is Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism: The Laurel of Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2016, paperback 2018). The research for the book was funded by an AHRC fellowship.

Jon was fortunate enough to spend 2016-17 as R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library, California. The work he did there provided the basis of his current research project on the ‘Literature, Bodies, and Machines’ project that is funded by a British Academy – Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship from January 2020 to January 2021. The workshop for this conference grows out of this work.

Amy Wilcockson is a PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham. Her research is focused on editing the letters of the neglected Scottish Romantic poet, Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). Further research interests include life-writing and letters, canon formation and non-canonical Romantic authors and poets. She is also partial to study of regional Nottinghamshire writers, literary rebels, and nonsense poets.