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David Damroschis Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books includeWhat Is World Literature?(2003),The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh(2007), andHow to Read World Literature(2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volumeLongman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e(2009) and the editor ofTeaching World Literature(2009). Kevin J. H. Dettmaris W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association.  He is the author ofThe Illicit Joyce of PostmodernismandIs Rock Dead?, and the editor ofRereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics;the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce’sA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManandDubliners;andThe Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture,and co-general editor ofThe Longman Anthology of British Literature.   Christopher Baswellis A. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.  His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry.  He is author ofVirgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association.  He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Clare Carrollis Director of Renaissance Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY.  Her research is in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, historiography, and translation. She is the author ofThe Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy, and editor of Richard Beacon's humanist dialogue on the colonization of Ireland,Solon His Follie. Her most recent book isCirce's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. She has received Fulbright Fellowships for her research and the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Andrew Hadfieldis Professor of English at The University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of books, includingShakespeare and Republicanism(2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature;Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625(1998); and Spenser'sIrishExperience: Wilde Fruyt andSalvage Soyl(1997). He has also edited a number, most recently, with Matthew Dimmock,Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660(2008), and with Raymond Gillespie,The OxfordHistory of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800(2006). He is a regular reviewer for the TLS. Heather Hendersonis a freelance writer and former Associate Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke College.  A specialist in Victorian literature, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  She is the author ofThe Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative.  Her current interests include home-schooling, travel literature, and autobiography.  Peter J. Manningis Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author ofByron and His FictionsandReading Romantics, and of numerous essays on the British Romantic poets and prose writers. With Susan J. Wolfson, he has co-editedSelected Poems of Byron, andSelected Poems of Beddoes, Hood, and Praed. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association. Anne Howland Schotteris Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College.  She is the co-editor ofIneffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckettand author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry.  Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid.  She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. William Sharpeis Professor of English Literature at Barnard College.  A specialist in Victorian poetry and the literature of the city, he is the author ofUnreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams.  He is also co-editor ofThe Passing of ArthurandVisions of the Modern City.  He is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright, and Mellon fellowships, and recently publishedNew YorkNocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography. Stuart Shermanis Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for his bookTelling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1775, and is currently at work on a study called “News and Plays: Evanescences of Page and Stage, 1620-1779.” He has received the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chicago Humanities Institute, and Princeton University. Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University and is general editor of Longman Cultural Editions. A specialist in Romanticism, her critical studies includeThe Questioning Presence:  Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry,Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, andBorderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. She has also produced editions of Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, Thomas L. Beddoes, William M. Praed, Thomas Hood, as well as the Longman Cultural Edition of Shelley’s Frankenstein. She received Distinguished Scholar Award from Keats-Shelley Association, and grants and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  She is President (2009-2010) of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.