Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Northumbria University. He is Principle Investigator for the Leverhulme Trust Major Projects Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832, and Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832. His monographs include Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2006) and From Melancholia to Prozac: a History of Depression (2012).