Evan Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University. He is the author of Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707 1832, Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory, and Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750 1830. He is co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Scott s Waverly Novels and Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660 1830: From Local to Global. He is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post books blog.