Greg Kucich is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and now serves at the Director of Notre Dame’s Study Abroad Program in London. Notre Dame’s London Centre on Trafalgar Square, where this Program is based, also functions as a dynamic Humanities Research Centre and Cultural Institution for scholarly discussion and public debate an a wide range of social, cultural, political, and artistic issues related to past and present.  His publications include books and articles on the relation between Renaissance and Romantic Era literature, the drama of the Romantic era, nineteenth-century forms of globalisation, and a current study of women’s re-writing of history during the Romantic Era.  He has just completed a thirteen-year role as co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal.