Biography
Julia Gasper received her doctorate in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford University. She has taught for Stanford University in Oxford, the Open University, and the University of Surrey at Roehampton, UK. Her recent books include Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man Behind the Legend (2012) and The Marquis d’Argens: A Philosophical Life (2014), a critical biography of the French Enlightenment author and philosopher. Her first book, The Dragon and the Dove: The Plays of Thomas Dekker, was published in 1990, and she is also the author of Elizabeth Craven: Writer, Feminist and European (2017), a biography that sheds considerable new light on its subject.