Warren Chernaik
is Emeritus Professor of English, University of London. He was the founding Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of IES. He is the author of Milton and the Burden of Freedom (2017), The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2011), The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeareâs History Plays (2007), a study of The Merchant of Venice (2005), Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature (1995), The Poetâs Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell (1983), and many essays on seventeenth-century poets and dramatists, including Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Donne, Traherne, Waller, Behn, Shakespeare, and Jonson.
Daniel Cook
is the Head of the English department and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee, where he teaches literature of the long eighteenth century. Recent books include Reading Swiftâs Poetry (Cambridge, 2020) and (with Nick Seager) The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 2015).
Stephen Deng
Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University, is the author of Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature (2011), editor of A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance (2019), and co-editor of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550â1700 (2008). He is currently writing a second monograph tentatively titled Hamlet and Accountability.
Martin Dzelzainis
is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature and Thought at the University of Leicester. He is currently editing Marvellâs verse and prose for the Oxford 21st-Century Authors series and Miltonâs histories for The Complete Works of John Milton. With Dr Paul Seaward (Director, History of Parliament) he is general editor of The Works of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, as well as editor of two of the individual volumes. All these projects are for Oxford University Press.
Richard Hillyer
was born and raised in London. Currently a professor at the University of South Alabama, he has published essays about Waller, Jonson, Hobbes, Auden, and
Philip Major
is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Ashgate, 2013). He has edited seven volumes of essays, including Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640â1685 (Ashgate, 2010) and Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature: Exploring Abraham Cowley (Routledge, 2020).
Michael P. Parker
is a Professor Emeritus of English at the United States Naval Academy. He has published on seventeenth-century poetry and Maryland history. Parker is currently editing the poetry of Edmund Waller in collaboration with Professor Timothy Raylor of Carleton College and is completing John Saffordâs biography of the poet.
Tessie Prakas
is an Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College. Her research and teaching focus on early modern poetry and poetics. She has published in Gender and Song in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014), The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, the John Donne Journal, and Christianity and Literature.
Geoffrey Smith
was Head of History at Melbourne Grammar School for a number of years and is now attached to the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Cavaliers in Exile 1640â1660, (2003) and Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640â1660, (2011). Among a number of articles on the royalists in exile, he has contributed essays on Thomas Killigrew, Sir John Denham and Clarendon and the Villiers family to volumes edited by Philip Major.
Thomas Ward
is Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, where he teaches classes on literature of the English Renaissance. His research examines literary representations of unruly vocal sound in the seventeenth century; his current book project discusses the circulation of media in the works of John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller, and Katherine Philips.
is a professor of English and Irish literature at the University of Birmingham. Her monograph The Restoration Transposed: Poetry, Place and History, 1660â1700 (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2019, and she is editing Aphra Behnâs poetry for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn.