Mark Lussier is an Professor in the English Department. His research has focused on William Blake specifically and English Romanticism generally, and his most recent work, entitled Romantic Dynamics: The Poetics of Physicality (London: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999) creatively collides English Romantic poetic practice with postmodern physical theories of relativity and quantum. His essays have appeared in Arts Quarterly, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Southern Humanities Review, Studies in Romanticism, Visible Language and The Wordsworth Circle. He has also published work on the electronic journals/web sites Romantic Circles and Romanticism on the Net. He is co-editor of the volume of essays entitled Perspective as a Problem in the Art, History, and Literature of Early Modern England and provided three entries for the Encyclopedia of Romanticism (New York: Garland, 1992).