Notes on Contributors

Peter Lamarque is one of the most prominent aestheticians and philosophers of literature of our time. For the past twenty‐three years, he has been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of York and prior to that he held the Ferens Chair of Philosophy at Hull University. He has published nine major books, including The Philosophy of Literature (2009) and Word and Object: Explorations of the Metaphysics of Art (2010). The latter won him the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize, and in 2018 the Italian Society of Aesthetics awarded him the “Premio Internazionale d’Esthetica.” From 1995 to 2008, he was Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics and he has held Visiting Professorships at Cornell University and the Australian National University.

Anja Müller‐Wood is Professor of English Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg‐University Mainz (Germany), which she joined after studying and working at the Universities of Marburg and Trier. The author of Angela Carter: Identity Constructed/Deconstructed (1997) and The Theatre of Civilized Excess: New Perspectives on Jacobean Tragedy (2007), she has extensively published on early modern and twentieth‐century British literature and culture and (co‐)edited several essay collections, most recently Translating Renaissance Experience (2020).

D.J. Howells was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he also did postgraduate research into twentieth‐century English literature. He has been a classroom teacher and examiner of A level English, mainly in South Wales, for many years. In addition to contributing to various publications—including a previous Wiley‐Blackwell Companion—on contemporary Welsh writing in English, he has published, among other subjects, on teaching methodologies in secondary schools, Christopher Marlowe and Keith Douglas.

Paolo Euron received a Ph.D. in Aesthetics (University of Bologna) and was an Associate Professor of Aesthetics (Italian Ministry of University and Research); he taught at the University of Turin and then at the Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), and he is now affiliated to the European International University. His publications include Aesthetics, Theory and Interpretation of the Literary Work (Brill, Boston/Leiden 2019), “Uncanny Beauty. Aesthetics of Companionship, Love and Sex Robots” (“Artificial Life” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT 2022), and “Uncanny Attraction. Intercultural Remarks on the Aesthetics of Gynoids and Sexbots in Pop Culture” (“Popular Inquiry” Aalto University, 2023). His fields of research are literary and intercultural aesthetics and intercultural studies.

Andrew Keanie is a Lecturer in English at Ulster University. He has published widely on the English Romantics. He is the author of Hartley Coleridge: A Reassessment of His Life and Work (2008), Sprung From Divine Insanity: On the Harmonious Madness of Byron, Keats and Shelley (2018), and Genius Disregarded: Selected Poems of Hartley Coleridge (2021). He is also a poet, and his first collection, My Cave Art, was published in 2020. He lives just outside Dungiven with his wife and near his grown‐up daughter.

Giuseppe Sofo is a Tenure‐track Assistant Professor (Rtd/B) in French Language and Translation at the Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. He received Ph.D. and Doctor Europaeus degrees from Avignon Université and La Sapienza, Rome. He has been a fellow of the Italian–French University and DAAD, and has taught at several universities in Italy, France, and the United States of America. He has published monographs on translation and has translated theater, fiction, and poetry from French, English, and German into Italian.

Madelena Gonzalez studied at the Universities of Birmingham, Aix‐en‐Provence, and Vienna before settling in France. She is currently a Professor of Anglophone Literature at the University of Avignon and the head of the multidisciplinary research group “Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality” (ICTT). She is also in charge of the Master’s program in English Studies. She has published widely on contemporary Anglophone literature, theater, and culture.

Emanuela Tegla is a literary critic and translator. She has published on various aspects on contemporary literature, including the volume on J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power. Unsettling Complicity, Complacency and Confession and translated Petre Solomon’s memoirs on Paul Celan. The Romanian Dimension, published by the Syracuse University Press in 2019.

D.J. Taylor is the author of thirteen novels, including English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Award, and Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and most recently Flame Music (2023). His non‐fiction includes Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016), and Orwell: The New Life (2023). He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.

Penelope Stenning graduated in English as a mature student from Royal Holloway College, London University, following her decision to elope as a sixteen‐year old from Lourdes Convent Grammar almost twenty‐five years earlier. She then began doctoral research at the Sussex University and taught English there before deciding to move to France in 2000, where she still lives. She is able to bring to the volume the double perspective of having experienced teaching and researching literature within the academy, and noted the absence of evaluation as part of that environment and that of a voracious reader within the unbounded community of those who live with literature as unprofessional connoisseurs, variously admiring and censorious and always open minded.

Rafe McGregor is a critical theorist publishing on culture, policing, and climate justice. He is the author of Literary Theory and Criminology (Routledge, 2023) and Narrative Justice (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018) and affiliated with Edge Hill University (Criminology), the University of Rijeka (Philosophy), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (General and Comparative Literature).

Elisabetta Deriu completed her studies between Italy and France, where she obtained a doctorate from the University of Paris Est‐Créteil and a qualification as a Maître de Conférences in History. Early modern courts, mobility/transfers, and horsemanship are at the core of her research. As far as equestrian topics are concerned, Deriu gained a John H. Daniel’s Fellowship at NSLM and has recently published BibliothEques, a guide to the Vatican Apostolic Library and Archive’s manuscript equestria. Deriu is also a translator and a teacher and currently works in Rome.

Amanda Finch is an early career researcher in Drama with a Ph.D. from Ulster University. Her current research explores the relationship between gender, violence, and comedy, using contemporary performances of Shakespeare as case studies. Her broader research interests include feminist and queer theory, gender and social justice, the representation of gendered violence in theater, and the role of costume in the performative representation.

Dr. Karen Simecek is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Philosophy of Lyric Voice: the cognitive value of page and performance poetry (Bloomsbury). Her research focuses on the philosophy of poetry with particular emphasis on the value of reading and engaging with poetry in the live performance alongside issues in metaphilosophy, the emotions and the cognitive value of art, and, in particular, how art can enhance our moral education. She has published articles in the British Journal of Aesthetics, Changing English, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy Compass, and Metaphilosophy as well as appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.

Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University. His research interests are in identity, politics, and drama. He has published journal articles on Northern Irish theater and LGBTQ+ representation in theater. He is writing four chapters for the upcoming Creative Writing Handbook from Bloomsbury, and a monograph on Irish theater is due out in 2024 from the University of Exter Press. As a writer–director, he has worked with major theaters, including Soho Theatre, London; 7:84 Theatre Company, Scotland; and Jagriti Theatre, India.

Dr. Gary Anderson, Associate Professor and Head of Drama, Dance, Performance at Liverpool Hope University, specializes in Spinozist readings of applied arts and coordinates with Dr. Niamh Malone HMP to Hope, a long‐term project of inviting men living in prisons to consider university education, and has recently published “Odyssey on the Airwaves: A Journey from HMP to Hope,” in Sonic Engagement (eds. Woodland and Vachon) Routledge, 2023.

Dr. Niamh Malone, Associate Professor and Head of International Relations at Liverpool Hope University's Creative Campus, specializes in applied theater and coordinates with Dr. Gary Anderson HMP to Hope, a long‐term project of inviting men living in...