Cynthia Chase

Cynthia
Chase, professor of English and Comparative Literature
at Cornell University, received her PhD from Yale
University in 1981.  Her publications include
Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the
Romantic Tradition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1986) and articles on theory,
Romanticism, and psychoanalysis; and a Longmans Critical
Reader, Romanticism, introduced and edited by her
(New York and London: Longmans, 2003).