Gina Luria Walker is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at The New School. She is the author of "Mary Hays (1759-1843): The Growth of A Woman's Mind "(Ashgate, 2006) and "The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader "(Broadview, 2005). She is co-editor of William Godwin's "Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (Broadview, 2001), and has published widely on Romantic literature and Enlightenment feminism.