Diane Long Hoeveler is Professor of English at Marquette University, USA. She has published widely on a variety of topics within literature, including gothic and religious transformations, romanticism and gender, and women writers in the nineteenth century. Most recently, she is author of The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1770-1870 (2014) and Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 (2010), which shared the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Award from the International Gothic Association. She is co-editor ofthe three-volume The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (with Burwick and Goslee, Wiley Blackwell, 2012) . Hoeveler served as President of the International Conference of Romanticism from 2001-2003, and is now co-editor of the European Romantic Review.