Bernadette Guthrie received her PhD in English from Cornell University, where her dissertation examined the role of secularization in Romantic and Victorian poetry. She has taught at Cornell University, Tulane University, and the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto and her scholarship has appeared in New Literary History, Essays in Romanticism, and the Hopkins Quarterly among other venues. She has also written in public fora about how the intellectual life might be recovered both within and beyond the university. Her current research explores the proliferation, in Nineteenth-Century Britain, of experimental and experiential encounters with past forms of thought, of life, and of poetry.