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  • Notes on Contributors

Conal Condren is an Emeritus Scientia Professor at The University of New South Wales and an honorary Professor at The Centre for the History of European Discourses, The University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and The Social Sciences in Australia, a Member of Clare Hall, of Churchill College, Cambridge, and an associate scholar of The Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Rotterdam. His most recent book is Argument and Authority in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He has also recently co-edited, with David Armitage and Andrew Fitzmaurice, Shakespeare and the History of Early Modern Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is currently working on a volume of essays on Shakespeare’s use of the political arguments of his own day, a study of the philosophic persona in English satire, and a theoretical model of language change and concept formation in politics.

Cathy Curtis is an Honorary Research Associate in History at The University of Sydney who works in the field of the history of early modern political thought and literature. She was awarded her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge in 1997 and was a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her recent book chapters focus on Tudor humanism, the diplomat Richard Pace, the methodology of Quentin Skinner, Shakespeare, Juan Luis Vives, and the persona of the early modern philosopher. She is currently working on a monograph on Thomas More as satirist and a contribution to the Cambridge Companion to Thomas More.

Richard Devetak is senior lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at The University of Queensland. Among other things he is co-author of Theories of International Relations (4th edn, Palgrave, 2009), co-editor of The Globalization of Political Violence (Routledge, 2008), and Security and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2008). He has published articles on the history of international thought and is currently writing an intellectual history of humanitarian intervention tentatively titled The Moralisation of International Politics. [End Page 277]

Ian Hunter is an Australian Professorial Fellow attached to the Centre for the History of European Discourses at The University of Queensland. He is the author of a number of studies of early modern philosophical and political thought, including Rival Enlightenments (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Secularisation of the Confessional State (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is also researching the history of poststructuralist theory, preliminary studies of which have appeared in Critical Inquiry and New Literary History.

David Martin Jones teaches in the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland. His publications include: ‘Sir Edward Coke and the Interpretation of Lawful Allegiance’, History of Political Thought (1986); ‘Milton, Casuistry and the Commonwealth’, History of Political Thought (2011); Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth-Century England (University of Rochester Press, 1999); and The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought (London: Macmillan, 2001)

Lisa O’Connell lectures in English Literature at The University of Queensland and her published research is mostly focused on eighteenth-century British fiction. She co-edited The Libertine Enlightenment (Palgrave, 2004) with Peter Cryle, and her current book project is entitled Proper Ceremony: The Political Origins of the English Marriage Plot.

Ryan Walter teaches the history of political thought in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the Australian National University. His current research explores the intersection between economic and political thought in the early modern period. Ryan’s most recent publications are ‘States and Markets’, Review of International Studies (2011), and A Critical History of the Economy: On the Birth of the National and International Economies (Routledge, 2011). [End Page 278]

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