British and Irish Literature

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Editor in Chief

Andrew Hadfield, FBA, is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of works on Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture, including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012); Lying in Early Modern English Culture from the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance (2017); Literature and Class from the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution (2021); and Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing (2023). He is one of the general editors of the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe and is currently working on a study of England and Empire in 1625 with Matthew Dimmock.

 


AREA EDITORS

University of Colorado Boulder
LMU Munich
Trinity College Dublin
Aberystwyth University

FORMER AREA EDITORS

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trinity College Dublin
Stanford University
 

FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD

Pennsylvania State University
Cardiff University
University College Dublin
Sheffield Hallam University
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Victoria
University of Glasgow
University of Surrey
University of Cambridge
 

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

* = recently published

 

1500 to 1800

Tom Jones
University of St Andrews
Rhona Brown
University of Glasgow
Stewart Mottram
University of Hull
Andrew Carpenter
University College Dublin
Margarete Rubik
University of Vienna
Brandon Schneeberger
Montreat College
Bridget Keegan
Creighton University
M. L. Stapleton
Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne
Andreas Mueller
University of Worcester
Andrew Hadfield
University of Sussex
Andrew Hadfield
University of Sussex
Louise Curran
University of Birmingham
Niall Allsopp
Frank Napolitano
Radford University
Mark Rankin
James Madison University
Hilary Havens
McGill University
Peter Sabor
McGill University
Alan Stewart
Columbia University
Nigel Ritchie
Queen Mary University of London
Gillian Austen
University of Bristol
Chauncey Wood
McMaster University
Michael Hattaway
The University of Sheffield
Thomas Keymer
University of Toronto
Chris Stamatakis
University College London
Dafydd Moore
University of Plymouth
Emrys Jones
King's College London
Chloe Porter
University of Sussex
P.J. Klemp
University of Wisconsin
Luke Wilson
The Ohio State University
Christopher Tilmouth
University of Cambridge
Gregory Lynall
University of Liverpool
Paul Goring
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Margaret P. Hannay
Siena College
Will Bowers
Merton College Oxford
Sara Trevisan
University of Warwick
Sarah Knight
University of Leicester
Michael Griffin
University of Limerick
Richard McCabe
University of Oxford
Andrew Lacey
Lancaster University
José María Pérez Fernández
Universidad de Granada
Andreas Mueller
University of Worcester
Lucy Cooper
University of Worcester
Pauline Mackay
University of Glasgow
Jack Lynch
Rutgers University–Newark
Thomas Keymer
University of Toronto
Carlo M. Bajetta
Università della Valle d'Aosta
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Robert Appelbaum
Uppsala Universitet
Murray Pittock
University of Glasgow
Nicholas Seager
Keele University
Kevin Killeen
York University
Daniel Cook
University of Dundee
Adam Rounce
University of Nottingham
Adrian Streete
University of Glasgow
Ephraim Levinson
University of Cambridge
Dylan Carver
University of Cambridge
Chris Stamatakis
University College London
Aileen Douglas
Trinity College Dublin
Cathy Shrank
The University of Sheffield
Paul Baines
University of Liverpool
Andrew Hadfield
University of Sussex
Amy Kenny
University of California, Riverside

 

19th Century

Christine Alexander
University of New South Wales
Roslyn Jolly
University of New South Wales
Mandy Swann
John McCourt
Università di Macerata
Felicity James
University of Leicester
Melisa Klimaszewski
Drake University
Alexis Harley
La Trobe University
Fionnuala Dillane
University College Dublin
Emily Merriman
Amherst College
Raphaël Ingelbien
University of Leuven, Belgium
Gillian Hughes
The University of Edinburgh
Katherine Halsey
University of Stirling
Rachel Falconer
Université de Lausanne
Philip Lindholm
Université de Lausanne
Stephen Wildman
Lancaster University
Selwyn Goodacre
Tom Mole
University of Edinburgh
Miranda Butler
University of California, Riverside
Catherine Packham
University of Sussex
Tim Fulford
De Montfort University
Camilla Ulleland Hoel
Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy
Ainsley McIntosh
University of Aberdeen
Julian North
University of Leicester
Karin Koehler
Bangor University
Ainsley McIntosh
University of Aberdeen
Jason Whittaker
University of Lincoln
David Latham
York University
Simon Bainbridge
Lancaster University
Marguérite Corporaal
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

 

20th Century onwards

Clair Wills
Princeton University
Nicoletta Caputo
University of Pisa
Jim Clarke
Coventry University
Julia Jordan
University College London
Derek Ryan
University of Kent
Shaun Richards
St Mary's University College
Michael McAteer
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Rob O'Connor
York St John University
Joseph Darlington
Liam Harte
The University of Manchester
Julia Jordan
University College London
James Moran
University of Nottingham
Thomas R. Dilworth
University of Windsor
Jarlath Killeen
Trinity College Dublin
John Goodby
Swansea University
Margery Palmer McCulloch
University of Glasgow
Philip Coleman
Trinity College Dublin
Eibhear Walshe
University College Cork – National University of Ireland
Mark Larabee
United States Naval Academy
Paul Delaney
Trinity College Dublin
Brad Kent
Université Laval
Robert Tobin
St Mary’s Church, Balham
Margery Palmer McCulloch
University of Glasgow
Jamie Harris
Aberystwyth University
Peter Childs
Newman University
Lauren Arrington
University of Liverpool
Gerald Dawe
Trinity College Dublin
Craig Lamont
University of Glasgow
Nicholas Ruddick
University of Regina
Liam Lanigan
Governors State University
Scott Hames
University of Stirling
Elke D'hoker
KU Leuven, University of Leuven
Soudabeh Ananisarab
University of Nottingham
Mark Larabee
United States Naval Academy
Vanessa Guignery
Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
Brian Ward
University of London
Matthew Taunton
University of East Anglia
Adam Hanna
University College Cork
Suzanne Hobson
Queen Mary University of London
Eva Urban
Université de Rennes 2
Anne Karhio
Ryan Hibbett
Northern Illinois University
Tim Woods
Aberystwyth University
Eva Urban
Université de Rennes 2
Guy Woodward
Maynooth University
David Punter
University of Bristol
Damian Walford Davies
Cardiff University
Luke Thurston
Aberystwyth University
Eugene O'Brien
University of Limerick, Ireland
James Moran
University of Nottingham
Paul Delaney
Trinity College Dublin
Dirk Delabastita
University of Namur
Liam Harte
The University of Manchester
Heather Ingman
Trinity College Dublin
Paige Reynolds
College of the Holy Cross
Lauren Arrington
University of Liverpool
Arnab Chatterjee
KLEF

 

Early and Medieval

Nicole Discenza
University of South Florida
Cate Gunn
Ayoush Lazikani
University of Oxford
Christine Rauer
University of St Andrews
Andrew Rabin
University of Louisville
Stephen Knight
The University of Melbourne
Tarren Andrews
Yale University
Charlotte Steenbrugge
University of Sheffield
Brendan O'Connell
Trinity College Dublin
Siân Echard
The University of British Columbia
Catherine McKenna
Harvard University
Diane Watt
University of Surrey
Andrew Rabin
University of Louisville
Natalie Jones
University College London
Mark Faulkner
Trinity College Dublin
Aisling Byrne
University of Reading
Nicola Royan
University of Nottingham
Aidan Conti
University of Bergen
Helen Fulton
University of Bristol
Paul Battles
Hanover College
Denis Renevey
Université de Lausanne
Elaine Treharne
Stanford University
Andrew Galloway
Cornell University
Stephen Knight
The University of Melbourne
Thomas Hahn
University of Rochester
Leah Haught
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas Hahn
University of Rochester
Leah Haught
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Henley
Saint Anselm College

 

Themes, Forms, and Genres

Seán Hewitt
Trinity College Dublin
Pamela Bickley
Royal Holloway University of London
Jenny Stevens
Eric Weiskott
Boston College
Mark Sweetnam
Trinity College Dublin
Margaretta Jolly
University of Sussex
Lucy Underwood
University of Warwick
Eilish Gregory
University of Durham
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Pepperdine University
Jane Suzanne Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Markman Ellis
Queen Mary University of London
Janice M. Allan
University of Salford
Polly North
Bishopsgate Institute
Hal Gladfelder
University of Manchester
Margaret Kelleher
University College Dublin
Oona Frawley
Maynooth University
Brian Cliff
Trinity College Dublin
Jarlath Killeen
Trinity College Dublin
Muireann Leech
Raphaël Ingelbien
University of Leuven, Belgium
Mary-Ann Constantine
University of Wales
Clare Wright
University of Kent
Anna Barton
The University of Sheffield
Mark Frost
University of Portsmouth
Heather Bozant-Witcher
Auburn University at Montgomery
Meredith Martin
Princeton University
Meredith Martin
Princeton University
Ben Glaser
Yale University
Derek Dunne
Cardiff University
Helen Moore
University of Oxford
Aris Mousoutzanis
University of Brighton
Robert Stagg
University of Birmingham
Iolanda Plescia
Sapienza University of Rome
John Roe
The University of York
Kevin Killeen
York University
Alasdair Pettinger
Lisa Robertson
University of New Brunswick
Erin M. Gallagher
Lycée Français de New York
Steve Mentz
St. John's University
Dale Townshend
University of Stirling
Clare Bucknell
University of Oxford
Seán Hewitt
Trinity College Dublin
 

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