Talissa J. Ford’s dissertation, Making Space, Making Do: Geographies of the Everyday in British Romanticism, provides a fresh look at categories of spatial experience in the Romantic era. Noting the solidification of national boundaries during the French Revolution, Ford, a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, looks at super- and subnational spaces — the ocean, the city, the body — and figures who move between national boundaries — the prophet, the pirate, the slave — as sites for imagining a liberating post-revolutionary space. Moving from Blake’s descriptions of urban settings to texts from the Atlantic slave trade, Ford’s work considers the possibilities and dangers of transnational space.