Deirdre ColemanDeirdre Coleman is the Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of 'Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery' (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and has recently published essays in the 'Oxford History o the Novel' (2015), the 'Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century British Women Writers' (2015), and 'Archives of Natural History' (2017). Her research interests lie in literature, colonialism, slavery and natural history. Read More Read Less