JOHN BEER Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University, Fellow of Peterhouse TIM FULFORD Reader in English, Nottingham Trent University MARILYN GAULL Professor of English, New York University KENNETH JOHNSTON Professor of English, Indiana University ZACHERY LEADER Professor of English, Roehampton Institute, London LUCY NEWLYN Fellow and Tutor in English, St Edmund Hall, and Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Oxford MICHAEL O'NEILL Professor of English, University of Durham NICHOLAS ROE Professor of English, University of St Andrews