Frances A. Chiu (Ph.D.--Oxford University) is an Assistant
Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at The New School. She
has published in 18th-century Life, Romanticism on the
Net, Le Fanu Studies, and Charles Scribner's British
Writers Retrospective Supplement (amongst others) and presented
papers at the Debartolo, ASECs, BSECS and 18th and 19th c. British
women writers conferences. She has also produced the first modern
scholarly editions of Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de
Blondeville and Sheridan Le Fanu's Rose and the Key
for Valancourt Books. In 2011, she was nominated for a
Distinguished Teaching Award. She is presently working on a study
of horror and the rise of modern liberalism as well as a critical
biography of Le Fanu. She has a blog, "History is on our Side: the
99% writes back."