Elizabeth Helsinger is John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Departments of English, Art History, and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on literature and other arts in nineteenth-century Britain. She is the author of, most recently, Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts (2008), Poetry and the Thought of Song (2015), and Conversing in Verse (forthcoming). Helsinger is a coeditor of Critical Inquiry.