Dr Thomas Duggett is a Senior Associate Professor in English Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, China. He is a historian of literature, specializing in the British Romantic period, and working primarily on Wordsworth and Coleridge, their influences and legacies. His book on Wordsworth and the ‘Recluse’ project, Gothic Romanticism (Palgrave USA, 2010), was awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and has recently been republished in an expanded second edition. His work has appeared in ‘Romanticism’, ‘The Wordsworth Circle’, ‘Review of English Studies’, ‘English’, and other journals, and he has also contributed chapters in major edited volumes including The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022), The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose (2024), The Cambridge History of the Gothic’ (2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (2020). Current projects include a scholarly edition of Ann Radcliffe’s breakthrough third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791) for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe (8 vols., 2025-28), and a monograph on the Lake Poets and the English idea of history.