Brian Cummings is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and was founding Director of the Center for Early Modern Studies from 2004 to 2008. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. at Cambridge University, and before moving to Sussex was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Oxford University Press, 2002), a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2003. A paperback edition of this book appeared in July 2007. He has also published widely in journals such as English Literary Renaissance and Studies in Church History, and is a contributor to The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was previously Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. He is a Life Fellow of Fellow of Girton College and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text, Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry, Ieform and Cultural Revolution, the second volume in the Oxford English Literary History, which won the 2007 British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize, and Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents, winner of the Silver Medal, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He is currently writing about iconoclasm in the Anglo-American tradition.

David Aers, Duke University
Alexander Barratt, University of Waikato
Sarah Beckwith, Duke University
Tom Betteridge, Oxford Brookes University
Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, University of London
Colin Burrow, All Souls' College, University of Oxford
Ardis Butterfield, University College London
Helen Cooper, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Brian Cummings, University of Sussex
Margreta De Grazia, University of Pennsylvania
Vincent Gillespie, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex
Lorna Hutson, University of St Andrews
David Kastan, Yale University
Jim Kearney, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jesse Lander, Notre Dame University
Seth Lerer, University of California at San Diego
David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tim Machan, Marquette University
Janel Mueller, University of Chicago
Maura Nolan, University of California at Berkeley
John Parker, University of Virginia
Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield
James Simpson, Harvard University
Lynn Staley, Colgate University
Paul Strohm, Columbia University
Jennifer Summit, Stanford University
Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University
Gordon Teskey, Harvard University
Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Watson, Harvard University

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