J. Andrew Hubbell, who prefers to be called Drew, is an expert on Nineteenth Century British literature and culture. He completed his doctoral work in 1999 at the University of Maryland, College Park. His dissertation opens the Romantic period to a new consideration of the role that Regency politics and nostalgia played in the construction of Romantic aesthetics. He has published essays on Percy Shelley and William Wordsworth and presented papers at many conferences, including the Wordsworth Conference in Grasmere, England. He is currently working on a book based on his dissertation, and planning future work on how Victorian philanthropic ideology grew out of Romantic ethics. He teaches classes in Romanticism, Victorianism, writing, and British Literature since 1789.
     When not singing praises to muses past, Drew can be seen hiking, biking, canoeing, kyacking, running, cooking, weightlifting, building furniture, traveling, playing chess, judo, lacrosse, frisbee, and looking for a few new hobbies.