Dr. Antonia Forster

Dr. Antonia Forster Professor Ph.D., Univ. of Melbourne

forster@uakron.edu Website (330) 972-7023

Antonia Forster, Professor. Her Index to Book Reviews in England 1749-1774 was awarded the 1992 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy, and the second volume to take the Index to 1800 was published by the British Library in 1997. She spent 1996 in Cambridge and Oxford working with James Raven on English Novels 1770-1799: a Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. She is also preparing an edition of the correspondence of Ralph Griffiths, founding editor of the Monthly Review, and working on a study of Griffiths and his reviewers, and smaller projects concerned with the reviewing of women writers. She has published articles in such journals as The Age of Johnson, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History and has been awarded fellowships for research in the Newberry, Houghton, Beinecke and British Libraries. Her teaching interests focus mainly on writers of the period from 1590 to 1850, especially women and Shakespeare.