Anne Kostelanetz Kostelanetz Mellor

Background

Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz was born on July 15, 1941 in Albany, New York, United States. Daughter of Austin John Tidaback and Dorothy Jane (Gannett) Gannett.

Education

Mellor received her BA, summa cum laude, from Brown University in 1963 and her MA in 1964 and her PhD in 1968 in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

Career

Assistant professor, Stanford (California) U., 1966-1973; associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1873-1880; professor, Stanford (California) U., 1980-1986; Watkins U. professor, Stanford (California) U., 1983-1985; professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1986. Consultant British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1993, Melvin Bragg's South Bank Show, London, 1994, Discovery Channel, Washington, 1995.

Works

• book

  • English Romantic Irony

    (Anne Mellor here offers the conceptual framework for a be...)

  • Romanticism and Gender

    (First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)

Politics

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.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association (advisory board publications 1994-1997, advisory board conference on romanticism 1995-1998).

Interests

• Avocations: theater, hiking, snorkeling, ballet, opera.

Connections

Married RonaldJohn Mellor, June 6, 1969. 1 child, Blake.

Father:

Austin John Tidaback Gannett

Mother:

Dorothy Jane (Gannett) Gannett

Spouse:

RonaldJohn Mellor

child:

Blake Mellor