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Orianne Smith received her B.A. in English from Bennington College and the Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago, where her dissertation on Romantic-era millenarianism and women writers won the 2005 Dissertation of the Year Award for the Humanities. She has received a number of research grants and fellowships, including a fellowship at the Huntington Library (2003), a Keats-Shelley Association Pforzheimer Grant (2003), a Chicago English-Speaking Union Fellowship for Study in the UK (2003), and an ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Women's Caucus Editing Fellowship (2005). She was also the recipient of a Folger Institute Seminar Grant-in-Aid in Spring 2008.
Dr Smith is the editor of Mary Robinson’s Hubert de Sevrac (1796), which will be published by Pickering & Chatto in 2009. In addition, she is the co-editor of British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism: 1793 – 1815 and Mary Robinson's Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (1799), both published by Romantic Circles. She has published several essays on Romantic women writers, the female prophetic tradition and the modern apocalyptic imagination. Recent essays include "Mary Shelley and the End of Romanticism" in On Theorizing Romanticism and Other Essays on the State of Scholarship Today, published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2008. She is also responsible for writing an annual review essay for the Year's Work in English Studies (YWES) on all books and articles published on the subject of general Romanticism. In addition to working on her book project, Dr Smith is currently completing an edition under contract with Broadview Press of Helen Maria Williams's Julia, A Novel (1790).
