Merrilees Roberts teaches literature and politics at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence: Shelley’s Shame (2020), as well as other articles on Romantic poetry, affect theory, and philosophies of sympathy. Her current interests lie in theories of eroticism, intersections between literature and science, and the creative potential of negative affect. She is an organiser of The Shelley Conference 2024: "'Posthumous Poems,' Posthumous Collaborations," at the Keats House in Hampstead, London, and a member of the steering committee for the Queen Mary Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies.