Misty Beck, Visiting Assistant Professor of English (PhD, Washington University), teaches courses in British literature, with special interest in Romanticism, Shakespeare, working-class poetry, and nineteenth-century detective fiction.  Her dissertation, Enclosure and the English Pastoral, considers how the loss of common lands and rights is encoded in Romantic era poetry.  In a related article on the nature poetry of John Clare, she analyzes the perceptual and aesthetic strategies at work in his elegies protesting enclosure.  The working title of her current book project is "'Homeless at Home': John Clare and the English Poets."  She has also presented papers at leading conferences (MLA and NASSR) on Clare and Wordsworth, working-class poetics, Romantic cosmopolitanism, and enclosure and aesthetics.