Maureen McLane, Associate Professor at NYU, is the author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2008), Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP, 2000, 2006); she is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008). A poet and essayist, she has published three books with FSG: World Enough: poems (2010), Same Life (2008), and My Poets (2012), an experimental hybrid of criticism and memoir, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography. Her third book of poems, This Blue, will be published in 2014.