Anne K. Mellor

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (born July 15, 1941) is an American academic working as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and gender studies. She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten female Romantic writers into literary history, and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled Romanticism and Feminism.