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.