Sharon Ruston

Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism in English Literature at Lancaster University. Her main research interests are in the relations between the literature, science and medicine of the Romantic period, 1780-1820. She has published The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein (2021), Creating Romanticism (2013), Romanticism: An Introduction (2010), and Shelley and Vitality (2005). She co-edited the four volume Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy for Oxford University Press (2020) with Tim Fulford and led the AHRC-funded project to transcribe all of the Davy’s notebooks (https://digitalcollections.lancaster.ac.uk/collections/davy/1). With Greg Tate and Frank James, she is co-editing The Poetry of Humphry Davy for UCL Press. She is co-general editor, with Daniel Cook, of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley, to be published in 15 vols between 2025 and 2035, and editor of volume 2, The 1818 Frankenstein.