Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Modernism, Technology, and the Body (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000), Modernism: A Cultural History (2005) and The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology and Pain in American Literature (2012).
John Barnie was the editor of the Welsh cultural magazine Planet: The Welsh Internationalist from 1990 to 2006. His books include No Hiding Place: Essays on the New Nature and Poetry (1996), Fire Drill: Notes on the Twenty-First Century (2010) and several collections of poetry, including Ice (2001), Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984–2003 (2006), Trouble in Heaven (2007), The Forest Under the Sea (2010) and A Year of Flowers (2011).
Ian F. A. Bell is Professor of American Literature at Keele University. He is the author of Critic as Scientist: The Modernist Poetics of Ezra Pound (1981), Henry James and the Past: Readings into Time (1991) and Washington Square: Styles of Money (1993). He is currently working on two new books, Working Words: The American Writer as Artist and Mauberleyan Occasions: The Literary Inventions of Ezra Pound.
Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University. He was the President of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts from 2006 to 2008. His books include Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science (1996), Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (2001) and Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (2008), and several edited and co-edited collections of essays on literature and science, including the Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (2010). He is editor of the book series ‘Meaning Systems’, published by Fordham University Press.
Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews. He is the editor of Contemporary Poetry, Contemporary Science (2006). His own critical books include Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry (1993), The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia and Knowledge Since the 1750s (2001) and Scotland’s Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature (2007). His collections of poetry include Sharawaggi (1990), A Scottish Assembly (1990), The Tip of My Tongue (2003), Selected Poems (2005) and Full Volume (2008).
Jonathan Ellis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop (2006). He is currently leading a project funded by the British Academy on letter writing in twentieth-century culture, which will be the subject of his next book.
John Holmes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self (2005) and Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution (2009), and co-editor of Horae Amoris: The Collected Poems of Rosa Newmarch (2010). He is currently working on a project on the Pre-Raphaelites and science.
Rónán McDonald is Australian Ireland Fund Chair of Modern Irish Studies and the Director of the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O’Casey and Beckett (2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (2006) and The Death of the Critic (2007).
Peter Middleton is Professor of English at the University of Southampton. He is the author of The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture (1992), Literatures of Memory: History, Time and Space in Post War Writing (2000, with Tim Woods) and Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry (2005). He is currently working on a study of American poetry and science in the Cold War.
Katy Price is Senior Lecturer in English at Anglia Ruskin University. She is the author of Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe (2012) and co-editor of The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson (2007).
Andrew Radford is Research Fellow at Swansea University. He is the author of Victorian Sensation Fiction (2008) and Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870–1940 (2010), and co-editor of Franco-British Cultural Exchanges 1880–1940: Channel Packets (2011).
Helen Small is Professor of English and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. She is the author of Love’s Madness: Medicine, the Novel and Female Insanity, 1800–1865 (1998) and The Long Life (2007), which won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2008, the editor of The Public Intellectual (2002) and co-editor of Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis 1830–1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer (2003).
Michael H. Whitworth is Fellow and Tutor in English at Merton College, Oxford, and the Chair of the British Society for Literature and Science. He is the author of Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001), Virginia Woolf (2005) and Reading Modernist Poetry (2010), the editor of Modernism: A Guide to Criticism (2007) and co-editor of Locating Woolf (2007).