Amanda Holton was educated at Oxford University, where she also currently lectures. Amanda specialises in Medieval English literature and the English language. Her first book was on Chaucer’s poetics; she has edited Tottel’s Miscellany, and worked on a book and database on rhyme in medieval and sixteenth century love lyric. She’s currently working on a new book about anthologies of ‘English verse’ and the fantasies of England they project. It picks up on her longstanding interests in poetry anthologies and the agendas which drive the critical framing of texts.

Following her DPhil on Henry James from the University of Oxford, Fiona has taught English Literature for many years across the secondary, further and higher education sectors. She continues to seek space for her own academic writing alongside her teaching responsibilities and is currently interested in exploring spiritual journeys in the work of Charlotte Bronte.

Hannah Greenstreet is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at Jesus College, Oxford, researching realism and feminism in contemporary theatre. She holds a Master of Studies in English Literature from the University of Oxford (Distinction) and a BA in English from Girton College, Cambridge (Double First Class Honours)

She studied at Harvard University for a year as Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow, where she took classes in playwriting and dramaturgy at the American Repertory Theater. She has taught courses on feminist theatre and creative writing, and is an experienced tutor of English. She was winner of the Theatre and Performance Research Association postgraduate essay prize in 2016 and her work has been published in Studies in Theatre and Performance and Platform Journal of Theatre Arts. As well as writing her own plays, which have been performed in Oxford, Edinburgh and Cambridge, Massachusetts, she reviews theatre for Exeunt Magazine.

Michael has taught English literature from the early modern to the contemporary at the University of Oxford and the University of East Anglia. His main research interests include the history and legacy of modernism, the study of literary influence, and correspondence networks of twentieth- century writers. Michael’s doctoral research concerned the influence of the seventeenth-century poet John Milton on twentieth-century writers, and he is currently turning this dissertation into a book. He is also at the early stages of a project about the representation of the Ottoman Empire in modernist writing.