Edited by Norman Vance, Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History, University of Sussex, and Jennifer Wallace, Lecturer in English and Comparative Drama, Cambridge University

Norman Vance is Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. He grew up in Northern Ireland, read English at Oxford, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at New College before he moved to Sussex. He is a trustee of the English Association and has served on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and various international assessment boards of the Irish Research Council. He is author of The Victorians and Ancient Rome (1997) and Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God (2013).

Jennifer Wallace is Lecturer and Director of Studies in English and Comparative Drama at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. She read Classics and English as an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, and wrote a PhD on Shelley and Hellenism. She held a JRF at Clare College, Cambridge, before taking up her current post at Peterhouse in 1995. She serves on the jury of the annual Criticos prize, and on the committee of the triennial Cambridge Greek Play. Her publications include Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism (1997), Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007).

James Castell, Hertford College, Oxford
Stefano Evangelista, Triinity College, Oxford
Shanyn Fiske, Rutgers University
Paul Giles, University of Sydney
Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Isobel Hurst, Goldsmith's College, London
Fiona Macintosh, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Arnold Markley †, Penn State
J.C.C. Mays, University College, Dublin
Ralph Pite, University of Bristol
Yopie Prins, University of Michigan
Charlotte Ribeyrol, Paris-Sorbonne
Edmund Richardson, University of Durham
Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, London
Nicholas Shrimpton, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Jonah Siegel, Rutgers University
Christopher Stray, University of Swansea
John Talbot, Brigham Young University
Norman Vance, University of Sussex
Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Timothy Webb, University of Bristol

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