ANYA
TAYLOR
Anya Taylor, Ph.D., has been Professor of
English since 1979. She joined the faculty at John Jay in 1970.
She has published Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law against
Divorce (Palgrave, 2005); Bacchus
in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830
(Macmillan
and St. Martin's, 1999); Coleridge:
On Humanity (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1994); Coleridge's
Defense of the Human (Ohio State Univ.Press, 1986); and Magic
and English Romanticism (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1979).
She has edited two volumes of The Wordsworth Circle on special
topics: "Criminal Justice" and "Romanticism" and "The Occult in Romanticism."
Her articles have appeared in SEL, Studies in Romanticism,
Essays in Literature, The Wordsworth Circle, Modern
Language Quarterly, European Romantic Review, and Texas
Studies in Literature and Language. Since 1985 she has developed
and taught the course "Literature and Alcohol," one of the first such
courses in the country.