Mischa Willett is the author of Phases and editor of Philip James Bailey’s epic Festus, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. His essays, translations, and poems appear in venues such as Victoriographies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Romantic Circles, Chronicle of Higher Education, Rio Grande Review, Front Porch Republic, Mockingbird and elsewhere, and his theological reflections in Christian Century, Comment Magazine, Books and Culture, Christ and Pop Culture, and others.

His scholarship is focused on nineteenth century aesthetics, especially as expressed in late British Romantic poetry and the Spasmodic school. He teaches in the English Department at Seattle Pacific University. More information can be found atwww.mischawillett.com