Tita Chico, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, is author of The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (2018) and Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (2005), and coeditor, with Toni Bowers, of Atlantic Worlds of the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment (2012). Since 2001, Chico has served as Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.