Jillian Heydt-Stevenson is an Associate Professor in the Departments of English and of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History (Palgrave, 2005), as well as the associate editor of Last Poems: 1821-1850 (Cornell Wordsworth, 1999). She has also published articles on Austen, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Burney.