Scott Krawczyk Editor

Scott Krawczyk is a retired army officer and former Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at West Point, where he served in leadership roles and taught courses in composition, literature, and cultural studies for over 13 years. He led several of West Point's key humanities programs, founded its Writing Center, and developed the annual Zengerle Family Lecture in Arts and Humanities. After retiring from the military, Professor Krawczyk became a lecturer at the Georgetown School of Continuing Studies, served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Long Island University (Brooklyn), and later joined Georgetown's MA program in Engaged and Public Humanities as an affiliate faculty member. In 2020 he was appointed Associate Chief Academic Officer at the University of the District of Columbia. William McCarthy retired as Professor of English at Iowa State University in 1997. He has published articles on Milton and Samuel Johnson but has devoted most of his scholarly effort to British women writers of the eighteenth century. He is recognized today as the foremost authority on the life and work of Anna Letitia Barbauld, whose place in English literature he is re-establishing with the first complete edition of her writings. Lisa Vargo is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. She researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, with a focus on Mary Shelley and Anna Barbauld. She has published on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Robinson, Anna Barbauld, Mary Shelley, Anna Jameson, hypertext editing, gothic fiction, eighteenth-century representations of the moose, Charlotte Smith, and Mathilde Blind. She is the editor of Mary Shelley's Lodore and Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (Broadview Press). Her edition of Mary Shelley's Spanish and Portuguese Lives appears in Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings from Pickering and Chatto.