Cathy Shrank took her degrees in Cambridge in the 1990s, and has worked at King's College London, Aberdeen, and Sheffield. She has published extensively on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and culture, and is a scholarly editor of early modern texts, including Shakespeare's Sonnets. Major grants as PI include the AHRC-funded 'Origins of Early Modern Literature', a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and the AHRC-funded project 'Penniless? Thomas Nashe and Precarity in Historical Perspective'.
Phil Withington trained as a social and economic historian at Cambridge in the early 1990s and worked at Aberdeen, Leeds, and Cambridge before joining the Department of History at Sheffield in 2012. He has published extensively on social history of the renaissance, urban culture and urbanization, and the history of intoxicants and intoxication. Major grants as PI include an ESRC mid-career fellowship, the ESRC/AHRC-funded project 'Intoxicants and Early Modernity', and the HERA-funded project 'Intoxicating Spaces'.