Mary-Ann Constantine is Professor at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She studies the literature and history of Romantic-period Wales and Brittany, and holds particular interests in travel writing and in the cultural politics of Britain and Ireland in the 1790s. She has led several major funded research projects and has written on Romantic-era literary forgery, narrative song, Welsh responses to the French Revolution, the British 'home tour' and the travels of naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant.