Clara Tuite is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches the literary and cultural history of Romanticism, with a particular interest in the works of Jane Austen and Lord Byron. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and the co-author with Claudia L. Johnson of 30 Great Myths About Jane Austen (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).