Richard C. Sha is Professor of Literature and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, American University, Washington D.C., USA. He is the author of Imagination and Science in Romanticism (2018), which won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the best book in Romanticism. Previously he published Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1850 (2008). With Joel Faflak, he has co-edited Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited (2022) and Romanticism and the Emotions (2016).