Gerard Kilroy, has an MA from Magdalen College, Oxford in both Classics and English. After a PhD at Lancaster, his first book was on the circulation of manuscripts connected with Campion. He won a prize from English Literary Renaissance for his 'Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's 'Directions in the Margent' (2011), a study of the role of the queen's godson in subversive publishing in manuscript and print. His biography of Edmund Campion, A Scholarly
Life used many recently discovered manuscripts in Prague and Cieszyn, Poland, to provide a meticulously researched picture of Campion's life. He lectures on religious ideas and biblical sources in Shakespeare.