...outstanding essays, well argued, precisely focused, and fully in control of their materials
Jane E. Everson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway. She is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, and Honorary Visiting Fellow of the University of Leicester. She has published widely on the chivalric epic tradition, Renaissance literature and culture. She directed the AHRC-funded projects: The Italian Academies 1525-1700: a themed
collection database; and The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first intellectual networks of early modern Europe.
Andrew Hiscock is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bangor University, Wales, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour la Renaissance, l'Age Classiques et les Lumières, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Fellow of the English Association, a trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association, English editor for the journal MLR, series editor for the
Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor for the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides.
Stefano Jossa is Reader in Italian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of
London, and has recently held Visiting Professorships at the Polytechnic (ETH) of Zurich, the University of Parma and the University of Roma Tre. His research interests include literature and culture in the Italian Renaissance and the construction of Italian national identity expressed through literature. He is the author of La fantasia e la memoria. Intertestualità ariostesche (Liguori 1996); Rappresentazione e scrittura. La crisi delle forme poetiche
rinascimentali (1540-1560) (Vivarium 1996); Ariosto (il Mulino 2009); La fondazione di un genere. Il poema eroico tra Ariosto e Tasso (Carocci 2001).