Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Robert Baker is the author of The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy (2005) and In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen (2012), and the translator of René Char's The Word as Archipelago (2012). He is Professor of English at the University of Montana.
Julie Crane is Assistant Professor in English at the University of Durham. Previous publications have been on the differently lonely and convivial figures of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson and Thomas Chatterton.
Andre van Loon is a writer, literary critic and Director at We Are Social. He reviews books for The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and others, and about writes about social media for Campaign, The Drum and Reaction. He is writing his first novel.
Fran Middleton is currently a lecturer in Greek literature for the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. She is interested in all aspects of ancient literature, specialising in imperial and late antique poetics.
Robert Neild is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of Trinity College. He worked in Whitehall as an economist in the Economic Section (which was first in the Cabinet Office and then moved to the Treasury) from 1951 to 1956 and knew many of the people he mentions here, but not the politico-military advice they were giving.
Vidyan Ravinthiran is an editor at Prac Crit and the author of Grun-tumolani (Bloodaxe, 2014), shortlisted for a few prizes, and also Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic (Bucknell UP, 2015), winner of both the University English Prize and the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. Poems towards his next collection, The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here (Bloodaxe, 2019) received a Northern Writers Award last year. [End Page 201]
Natasha Simonova is a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations: Adaptation and Ownership from Sidney to Richardson.
Ross Wilson is Lecturer in Criticism in the Faculty of English, Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He is the author, among other things, of Shelley and the Apprehension of Life (2013).
Steven Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, St Louis, where he teaches early modern literature. He writes on Dryden, Marvell, and most recently, Lord Rochester. [End Page 202]
