Julia M. Wright is Professor of English at Dalhousie University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is a past Canada Research Chair (2005-15) and past president of the Academy of the Arts and Humanities for the Royal Society of Canada (2019-22). She is the author of five monographs, including *Representing the Landscape in Irish Romanticism* and (forthcoming) *Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800-1840: The Local, the Global, and the Mobile*. She also edited *Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology*, the two-volume *Companion to Irish Literature*, and two of Lady Morgan’s novels, *The Missionary* and *The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys*. She co-edited a further seven volumes, including *Reading the Nation in English Literature* and chaired or co-chaired three expert panels for the Royal Society of Canada’s Task Force on COVID-19.