Romantic Circles

Julie Carlson is Professor of English and the current director of Literature and the Mind at UC Santa Barbara.  She is the author of In the Theatre of Romanticism:   Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (Cambridge UP, 1994), England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007), and co-editor with Elisabeth Weber of Speaking about Torture (Fordham UP, 2012).  She is writing a book on friendship and creativity in British Romanticism.