On Essays
Montaigne to the Present
Edited by Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy
Author Information
Edited by Thomas Karshan, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of East Anglia, and Kathryn Murphy, Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, Oriel College, and Associate Professor, English Faculty, University of Oxford
Thomas Karshan is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play (Oxford University Press, 2011), the co-translator of Nabokov's The Tragedy of Mister Morn (Penguin, 2012), and the editor of Nabokov's Collected Poems (Penguin, 2013). From 2018 to 2020 he was President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. He has published articles on modern British, American, and Russian literature, and essays in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Kathryn Murphy is Fellow in English Literature at Oriel College, and Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. Her academic work focuses on Renaissance poetry and philosophy, and on the literary essay. She is also a critic and essayist, writing regularly about still life painting for Apollo Magazine, and reviewing Czech literature for the TLS. She is currently writing two books: The Tottering Universal: Metaphysical Prose in the Seventeenth Century; and Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy, a study of distraction, attention, and The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Contributors:
Thomas Karshan
Warren Boutcher
Kathryn Murphy
Markman Ellis
Fred Parker
Scott Black
Denise Gigante
Gregory Dart
Felicity James
Tom Wright
Ophelia Field
Stefano Evangelista
Bharat Tandon
Michael Wood
Ned Stuckey-French
Adam Phillips
Christy Wampole
