Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (born July 15, 1941)[1] is an American academic working as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten female Romantic writers into literary history, and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled Romanticism and Feminism.
Mellor received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Brown University in 1963.
She earned a Master of Arts in English in 1964 and a PhD in comparative literature in 1968, both from Columbia University.
Her most important books on women and Romanticism include Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 (2000), Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1988), Romanticism and Gender (1993).