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Boriana Alexandrova

Nicoletta Asciuto

• Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry (John Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• (trans.) Hope Mirrlees, Parigi (Interno Poesia, 2025)
• eds. Nicoletta Asciuto, Francesca Bratton, Camilla Sutherland, Modernist Periodicals and the Transnational Turn, Special Issue of Modernism/modernity (2023)

Derek Attridge (Emeritus)

• The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers (Oxford University Press, 2019)

David Attwell (Emeritus)

• eds. David Attwell, Annalisa Pes, Susanna Zinato, Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature (Routledge, 2019)

Jennie Batchelor

• The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
• Jane Austen Embroidery (Pavilion, 2020)

Clare Bielby

• eds. Clare Bielby, Mererid Puw Davies, Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001 (Camden House, 2024)
• eds. Clare Bielby, Mererid Puw Davies, Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany since 2001 (Camden House, 2024)

Lola Boorman

• Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• Lydia Davis's Grammatical Examples, Twentieth-Century Literature 69:3 (2023)
• "The End of the Story: Grammar, Gender, and Time in the Contemporary Short Story", The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story, eds. Gavin Jones, Michael J. Collins (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

John Bowen

• "Dickens’s Theatre of Cruelty", Dickens and Decadence eds. Giles Wheatley, Jonathan Foster (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• "Winston’s Desires, Orwell’s Politics", Cambridge Quarterly, (54:3, September 2024)
• ed. John Bowen, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Oxford World's Classics, 2021)

John is also a member of the editorial board of The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, the first complete authoritative edition of his works. 

Janine Bradbury

• Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy (ignitionpress, 2024)
• "Contemporary Literature From the Classroom: Post-45 Contemporaries", Contemporary Literature From the Classroom: Post-45 Contemporaries (2024)
• "The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination' in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child", Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, eds. Linda Wagner-Martin, Kelly Reames (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jonathan Brockbank

• Godzilla, Science and Culture, blog for Science Museum (3 November, 2022)

• eds. Matthew Campbell, Lauren Arrington, The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

• ‘"Rinse and Wring the Ear": Reflections on being in long-distance conversation', in Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory (eds., Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard, and Annabel Williams), (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• Being a perpetual guest: Lyric, Community, Translation. A conversation with Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo, in Rethinking Lyric Communities, eds. Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti (ICI Berlin Press, 2024)
• Polka Dot Wounds (Carcanet, 2024)
• A Happiness (Intergraphia, 2022)
• Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, 2021)
• The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021) 

Olivia Carpenter

Olivia is Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Victorian Culture

Maya Caspari

• eds. Maya Caspari, Ruth Daly, Reading Otherwise: Decolonial Feminisms, Special Issue of Parallax, (29:2, 2023)
• Moving Archives, Touch, and World Literary Melancholy in Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2022)

Claire Chambers

• Decolonizing Disease: Pandemics, Public Health, and Decoronial Writing (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• eds. Claire Chambers, Ipek Demir, Translation and Decolonialisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Routledge, 2024)
• ed. Claire Chambers, Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia (Picador, 2021)

Claire Chambers is the co-editor for two book series: Routledge's Global Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives and Manchester University Press's Multicultural Textualities. With Kaiser Haq, she also edits the six-volume Cultural History series for Bloomsbury, A Cultural History of South Asian Literature. Previously, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (SAGE) for over a decade.

• "Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition: The "Wrong Body" Problem, the Taboo on Translocation, and the Case of Henry James", in Novel: A Forum on Fiction (56.2, August 2023)

Brian Cummings

• Bibliophobia (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• eds. Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Bronwyn Wallace, Alexandra Walsham, Memory and the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
• eds. Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Karis Riley, Alexandra Walsham, Remembering the Reformation (Routledge, 2020)

Mary Fairclough

• eds. Mary Fairclough, Catherine Packham, Mary Wollstonecraft, Newington Green, and Dissent, Special issue of Women's Writing (31.3, August 2024)
• Action at a Distance: Communication and Material Entanglement in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy in Percy Shelley for Our Times, eds. Omar F. Miranda, Kate Singer, (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Alice Hall

• Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2023)
• The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability (Routledge, 2020)

Alice Hall is editor of Liverpool University Press's Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society series. This series includes works on disability, illness, ageing, sexuality, gender, race, affect, care, technology, and the body as spectacle. It encompasses a broad historical range, from the Early Modern period to the present day, and engages with a rich variety of cultural forms including films, novels, comics, medical texts and public exhibitions.  

Dave Harper

• Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism (Routledge Press, 2024)

Thomas Houlton

• '"The touch of his hairy hand offended you": The Epistemological Indeterminacy of Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright', in Animality and Horror Cinema, eds. Samantha Hind, Mo O'Neill and Peter Sands (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature series) (Palgrave, 2025)
• 'The Deception of Survival: A Response to the Works of Ali Cherri', in How I Am Monument, ed. Ali Cherri, Emma Dean and Jeannette Pacher (Vienna Secession/Baltic Gallery, 2024)
• eds. Tom Houlton and Alice Hall, Care in the Environmental Humanities, Special Issue of Humanities Journal (2024)
• Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects: From Mesolithic to Eco-Queer (Routledge, 2021)

Shazia Jagot

• Chaucer and Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen): Perspectiva, Arabic Mathematics, and Acts of Looking, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022)

Shazia Jagot is a co-editor of the international journal, postmedieval which publishes theoretically driven scholarship on premodernity and its ongoing reverberations. Contributions to the journal are characterised by conceptual adventure, stylistic experiment, political urgency, or surprising encounter. She is also editor of the book series, Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture, which showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature

Holly James-Maddocks is co-editor, with Orietta Da Rold, of the book series York Manuscript and Early Print Studies, for York Medieval Press (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer)

• ‘“Reading together” two historical novels in Afan Oromo and Amharic: Linguistic diversity in the Ethiopian literary field’, Research in African literatures, Vol. 55.2 (forthcoming 2025)
• ‘“I am tired of earnestly placating him’’: Women folk songs about patriarchal oppression among the Guji-Oromo of southern Ethiopia’, Critical African Studies (forthcoming 2025)
• ‘Novelisation of orature in Ethiopian village novels’, eds. Sara Marzagora and Francesca Orsini, Oral Literary Worlds (Open Book Publishers, forthcoming 2025)

Kevin Killeen is the editor of Renaissance Studies, a multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles and editions of documents on all aspects of Renaissance history and culture. The articles range over the history, art, architecture, religion, literature, and languages of Europe during the period.

Alexandra Kingston-Reese

• Art Essays (University of Iowa Press, 2021)
• Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First-Century American Life, (University of Iowa Press, 2020)

Alexandra Kingston-Reese is the editor of ASAP/J, the open-access platform of ASAP/Journal, the scholarly publication of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Like the association and print journal it serves, ASAP/J explores new developments in a variety of post-1960 arts, including literature, plastic and visual arts, digital arts, music and sound art, performance, architecture and design, mixed media and intermedia arts, and so on. ASAP/J provides a forum for dialogue among and between scholars and practitioners of the contemporary, and it seeks to advance our collective knowledge of our own elusive contemporaneity.

• The Vocabulary of Wisdom in Old Norse Poetry (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2025)

Daniel Matore

Jon Mee

• Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
• eds. Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster, Remediating the 1820s (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
• eds. Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster, Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• eds. Jon Mee, James Grande, William Hazlitt, The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics, 2021)

Juliana Mensah

• Castles from Cobwebs (Saraband, 2021) 

Emilie Morin

• (ed.) Early Radio: An Anthology of European Texts and Translations, with translations by Emilie Morin, Marielle Sutherland, Nicoletta Asciuto (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)

Emilie Morin is co-editor of the Clemson University Press book series Modernist Constellations, and is on the Editorial Board of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, a journal that fosters dialogue on Beckett across languages and cultures.

• The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• eds. Alison O'Byrne, Jim Watt, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• "Public Improvement as ‘National Ornament’: Commerce, Culture, and Patriotism in London and Edinburgh" in The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts, eds. Sophie Thomas, Maureen McCue (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Melissa Oliver-Powell

• "The Missed Periods of Period Drama: Abortion, Law, and the Uses of the Past in L’Événement (Happening) and Vera Drake", in Abortion in International Popular Culture: The Decision Heard Around the World, eds. Brenda Boudreau, Kelli Maloy (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2024)
• "A Very Unusual Self": Queering the Home in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and A Taste of Honey, Journal of British Cinema and Television (21:3, 2024), Special Issue on 'Revisiting the British New Wave'
• PEPSI AND THE PILL: Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958-1969 (Berghahn Books, 2022)

Pritika Pradhan

• “‘Dwell on every detail and its possible meaning’: The Subjective Particulars of Middlemarch”, Nineteenth-Century Literature (forthcoming 2025)
• Bitch, short story, in Emerald City (Spring 2023)
• Reading the Detail in John Ruskin’s Gothic Aesthetics, in English Literary History (ELH), 89:3 (Fall 2022)

Jane Raisch

• Classicism as Medievalism: Gower & Mediation in Pericles, Prince of Tyre in What Is a Greek Source on the Early English Stage? Fifteen New Essays (Skene: Texts and Studies, 2024)

Namratha Rao

• ‘Good to think with’: Spenser's Animals against Materiality in Edmund Spenser and Animal Life, eds. Abigail Shinn and Rachel Stenner (Palgrave, 2024)
• Ground-plots of Invention: Poetics of the Material and Difficult Thinking in The Faerie Queene in English Literary Renaissance 53.2 (2023). Winner of the ELR Award for Outstanding Essays, 2023-24
• The Virtues of Mediation: Milton's Ludlow Maske in The Review of English Studies 74.315 (2023)
• ‘Companionable Thinking: Spenser with...’, a special issue of Spenser Studies (Vol 37) edited by David Hillman, Joe Moshenska and Namratha Rao (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Rao, ‘Introduction: Thinking’

Hannah Roche

• 'Radclyffe Hall's Reproductive Futures', Modernism/modernity (forthcoming 2025)
• eds. Jana Funke, Hannah Roche, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, (Oxford World's Classics, 2024)
• The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (Columbia University Press, 2019)

Deborah Russell

• ed. Deborah Russell, Ann Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025)
• ed. Deborah Russell, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831 edition) (Oxford World's Classics, forthcoming 2025)
• Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature in Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Lucy Cogan, Michelle O'Connell (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 2022)
• Domestic Gothic Writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe, in The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume I: Gothic in The Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Dale Townshend, Angela Wright (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 222-242

Erica Sheen

• Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• (ed.) MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Special Issue: Reframing Varda (Issue 12, 2023)

Erica is a member of the Editorial Board of Adaptation and an editor of the journal Literatūra

Helen Smith

Helen Smith is editor of Literature and History, and for the Bloomsbury Early Modern Material Cultures series

• eds. David Stirrup, Jeffrey Orr, The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
• eds. David Stirrup, Gordon Henry Jr, Margaret Noodin, Enduring Critical Poses: The Legacy and Life of Anishinaabe Literature and Letters (SUNY Press, 2021 )
• Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature (Michigan State University Press, 2020)

Natasha Tanna

• The Politics of Plagiarism: Queer Appropriation and Collaborative Creation in Ena Lucía Portela and María Moreno in Comparative Literature (74:4, 2022)
• Unravelling Compulsory Happiness in Exile: Cristina Peri Rossi’s The Ship of Fools in Feminist Theory (20:1, 2019) 
• Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company (Legenda, 2019) 

Matthew Townend

• J.R.R. Tolkien (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Tyler

• ‘Writing History and the Politics of Language in Eleventh-Century England: Latin, English, Norse, French, Welsh and Irish’ in Profile del Secolo XI, LXXI Settimana di Studio (forthcoming 2025)
• 'Translatio imperii et studii: Reading Imperial Geographies with the Old English Orosius’  in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (forthcoming 2025)
• ‘The Languages of History-Writing in the Ninth-Century: An Entangled Approach’, with Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Journal of Medieval History 47 (2021)

Anna Wall

• 'Commentary and Identity' in The Oxford Handbook of Global Commentary, eds. Walid Saleh, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Elisa Brilli, Amanda Goodman and Kenneth Yu (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025) 
• 'Lucy Hutchinson' in The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature, ed. Catherine Bates (Routledge, forthcoming 2025)
• 'Precept upon precept'; biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs', The Seventeenth Century Journal (38.3, 2023) 

Richard Walsh

• eds. Richard Walsh, James Phelan, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited (Ohio State University Press, 2022)
• Fictionality as Rhetoric, Special issue of Style (53:4, 2020)

Jim Watt

• (ed.) Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• eds. Alison O'Byrne, Jim Watt, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

JT Welsch

• The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry (Anthem, 2020)

Claire Westall

• The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (Palgrave 2021)
• eds. Michelle Kelly, Claire Westsall, Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (Routledge, 2020)

Chloe Wigston Smith

• Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2024)
• eds. Chloe Wigston Smith, Beth Fowkes Tobin, Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• eds. Chloe Wigston Smith, Serena Dyer, Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020)

James Williams

• ed. James Williams et al, A Conversation with Geoff Wall, Special Issue of The Cambridge Quarterly (2024)
• eds. James Williams, Anna Barton, The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)

James Williams is an editor of the Cambridge Quarterly, an OUP journal of literary criticism which also publishes articles on cinema, the visual arts, and music. Founded in 1965, Cambridge Quarterly was conceived as the successor to the famous Scrutiny, but quickly established its editorial independence. It aims, without sacrifice of scholarly standards, to engage readers outside as well as inside the academic profession.

Lauren Working