Isabel Rivers obtained her BA at Girton College, Cambridge and her PhD at Columbia University. A former Reader at the University of Leicester and Reader and Professor at the University of Oxford, since 2004 she has been Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies. Her main interests are in the relations between literature, religion, philosophy, and the history of the book in the long eighteenth century.


David Wykes obtained his BSc at Durham and his PhD at Leicester, where he taught for many years. He has been Director of Dr Williams's Library, London, since 1998, and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies since it was established in September 2004. He is an Honorary Reader in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. His main interests are the history of religious dissent from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century.

Clyde Binfield, University of Sheffield (Emeritus)
Elizabeth Clarke, Warwick University
Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Emeritus)
E. Wyn James, Cardiff University
Ken R. Manley, Whitley College, University of Melbourne
Isabel Rivers, Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies
Alan Ruston, Independent Scholar
Nicholas Temperley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Emeritus)
David Thompson, University of Cambridge (Emeritus)
J. R. Watson, University of Durham (Emeritus)
David Wykes, Dr Williams's Trust and Library, and Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies