Jerome McGann is a major critic and scholar whose most influential works include The Romantic Ideology and A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (both 1983). His more than 25 books include Byron: The Complete Poetical Works in 7 Vols., as well as 4 books of poetry. In 1993, McGann began his online The Rossetti Archive (1993–2008). He is also the founder of the Applied Research in Patacriticism digital laboratory. A Fulbright Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, among other awards he has been a professor at the University of Virginia since 1986.