Robert Crossley

Robert Crossley taught literature for 37 years at the University of Massachusetts Boston and served as Chair of the English Department.  A two-time recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is the author of the biography Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future; a literary history, Imagining Mars; and most recently, Epic Ambitions in Modern Times: From Paradise Lost to the New Millennium.  Recent essays have appeared in a variety of magazines including Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, Raritan, The Hudson Review, Sewanee Review, and Smithsonian Air and Space.

• Romancing the Moon, Robert Crossley Reviews Christopher Cokinos, Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.