Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Julia Boffey is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her interests include Middle English verse, especially lyrics and dream poetry; and the relationships between manuscript and print in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Lloyd Houston is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford where he is the inaugural recipient of the Hertford College—Faculty of English DPhil Scholarship in Irish Literature in English. His thesis explores the political and aesthetic roles venereal disease and discourses of sexual hygiene played in the emergence of Irish modernism. Other research interests include post-colonial literature and the law, and the institutional construction of literary obscenity. His recent publications include a history of the Bodleian Library’s restricted Phi collection.
Matthew Payne is the Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey. His research interests include London chronicles, the early printed book trade, and the history of the Abbey.
Louise Seaward is a research associate on the Bentham Project at University College London, where she works on the scholarly edition of the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century writings of the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Her other research interests relate to the history of publishing and censorship in eighteenth-century Europe.
David J. Shaw is a former President of the Bibliographical Society and writes particularly on the history of the book in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and previously taught French at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is now Honorary Senior Research Fellow in History.
Harriet Soper is a graduate student in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. She is working towards a doctoral thesis addressing the representation of life courses and life stages in Old English poetry, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Isaac Newton Trust. [End Page 247]
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Adrian Armstrong is Centenary Professor of French at Queen Mary University of London.
Ralph Hanna is an Emeritus Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and has written many catalogues of medieval manuscripts.
Joseph Marshall is Head of Special Collections at Edinburgh University Library.
Dunstan Roberts is a Praeceptor in English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. [End Page 248]
