Anne Milne is an ecocritic who specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature. She holds a Ph.D. in English from McMaster University. She was a 2010-2011 Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilians University and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany and is the author of ‘Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry (Bucknell, 2008). Her current research focuses on land-use transformation, local cultural production and the role(s) of British eighteenth-century labouring-class poets in both shaping and being shaped by dynamic and often chaotic landscapes.