Draft:Gregory Dart

Gregory Dart is a professor of English at University College London (UCL). His research interests include Romanticism and the history and development of the essay. He is currently editing an anthology on the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, as well as editing a collection of essays on the city, which follows his earlier collection called Restless Cities, which he worked on with colleague Matthew Beaumont.

Dart is a chairman of the Hazlitt Society, a project initiated by UCL to "promote and encourage the appreciation of Hazlitt's life and work". As well as contributing to literary publications, Dart has contributed 16 essays for use by the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. His book, Unrequited Love, has also been adapted as a documentary by the same name and was directed by Chris Petit. Dart has also appeared on the mockumentary television series Cunk on Britain as a romanticism specialist.

Dart gained both his BA and PhD from Clare College, Cambridge. Dart taught English Literature at the University of York for seven years from 1993. From 2000, he moved to UCL to teach the same subject.

Publications

 * Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1999) ISBN 978-0521641005
 * Unrequited Love: On Stalking and Being Stalked (Short Books, 2003) ISBN 978-1904095286
 * Restless Cities (ed. with Matthew Beaumont) (Verso, 2010)ISBN 9781844674053
 * William Hazlitt, Liber Amoris (ed. with Critical Introduction) (Carcanet Press, 2008) ISBN 9781857548570
 * Metropolitan Art and Literature 1810-1840: Cockney Adventures (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1107024922