Mary Wollstonecraft at Notre Dame

Eileen M. Hunt is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarly interests cover modern political thought, feminism, the family, rights, ethics of technology, and philosophy and literature. She has published five solo-authored books, including her recent trilogy on Mary Shelley and political philosophy for Penn Press: Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in 'Frankenstein' (2018); Artificial Life After Frankenstein (2021), which won the David Easton Award "for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities" from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association; and The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (2024). She also has published five edited or co-edited books—most recently, in a one-volume, updated, illustrated paperback, Portraits of Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Feminist Icon, 1785-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is presently at work on several scholarly editions of the works of Wollstonecraft and Shelley for Oxford University Press. Her dual, annotated, cross-referenced edition of Shelley's pandemic novel The Last Man alongside her private Journal of Sorrow will be published by Oxford World's Classics to mark these intertwined works' bicentennial in 2026. Together with Nancy Johnson (SUNY-New Paltz), she is the recipient of a 2024-27 NEH Scholarly Editions grant to support the completion of the first standard integrated scholarly edition of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for Volume 4 of OUP's Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (editor-in-chief Emma Clery).

Nancy E. Johnson is a Professor of English and an Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at SUNY New Paltz. Her research focuses on the late eighteenth-century British novel (primarily from the 1790s) and British legal theory from the long eighteenth century. She has published a monograph, The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law: Critiquing the Contract (Palgrave, 2004) and two edited volumes: Impassioned Jurisprudence: Law, Literature and Emotion 1760–1848 (Bucknell University Press, 2015) and Wollstonecraft in Context (co-edited with Paul Keen) (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She has published a scholarly edition, The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney, Vol. 6, 1790-June 1791 (Clarendon Press, 2019) and has another scholarly edition forthcoming: The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney, Vol. 5, 1807–09 (Oxford University Press). She is a subrecipient of an NEH Scholarly Editions grant (2024–27) with Eileen M. Hunt (principal investigator) to complete a scholarly edition of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman for Volume 4 of the Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Oxford University Press, Gen. Ed. Emma Clery).