Sharon Achinstein is Sir William Osler Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994) and Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England (2003), and has edited, along with Elizabeth Sauer, Milton and Toleration (2008). She is currently preparing an edition of Milton’s divorce tracts, Volume V of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton.
Pascale Aebischer is Associate Professor of Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance (2004), Jacobean Drama (2010) and Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare (2013). She has co-edited Performing Early Modern Drama Today with Kathryn Prince (2012) and is general editor of Shakespeare Bulletin, the journal of early modern drama in performance.
Cedric C. Brown is Emeritus Professor of English and former Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Reading. In Milton studies he is author of John Milton’s Aristocratic Entertainments (1985, revised 2009) and John Milton: A Literary Life (1995) and numerous essays. Outside Milton studies he has published on various materialities in seventeenth-century texts, on miscellanies and textual transmissions, and he is general editor of the series Early Modern Literature in History (sixty volumes to date). His major recent research, producing several essays and leading into a forthcoming book, has been into the discourses of friendship.
Thomas N. Corns, Professor of English Literature at Bangor University, Wales, co-authored with Gordon Campbell John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (2008) and co-edited with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (2009). He is the editor of The Milton Encyclopedia (2012) and, with Gordon Campbell, the General Editor of The Complete Works of John Milton, for which, with David Loewenstein, he is editing Volume I, Paradise Lost.
John Creaser, Emeritus Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor of Royal Holloway, University of London, edited Bartholomew Fair for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (2012). He has also edited Jonson’s Volpone (1978), and was for many years Executive Secretary of the Malone Society.
Martin Dzelzainis, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Thought, University of Leicester, edited Milton’s Political Writings for Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (1991) and co-edited The Rehearsal Transpros’d and The Rehearsal Transpros’d: The Second Part for the Yale edition of The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell: Volume I: 1672–1673 (2003). He is currently editing the Andrew Marvell volume for the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series and Milton's histories of Britain and Muscovia which will comprise Volume X of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton.
Karen L. Edwards teaches at the University of Exeter, England. Her publications include Milton and the Natural World: Science in Paradise Lost (1999), and Milton’s Reformed Animals: An Early Modern Bestiary, published by Milton Quarterly in twice-yearly fascicles between 2005 and 2009.
Neil Forsyth is the author of The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (1989) and The Satanic Epic (2002) as well as a biography of Milton and essays on topics as diverse as Gilgamesh, Dickens, and edible wild plants. His essay on filming Shakespeare has recently re-appeared in an edition of Macbeth. He has edited The European English Messenger and is Professeur Honoraire at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
John K. Hale is the author of Milton’s Languages (1997), and two more books about Milton: Milton’s Cambridge Latin (2005) and Milton as Multilingual (2005). He has edited and translated John Milton: Latin Writings, A Selection (1998); contributed to Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana (2007), and published in 2012 with Donald Cullington Volume VIII of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton, a new edition and translation of De Doctrina Christiana.
Neil Harris is Professor of Bibliography and Library Studies at the University of Udine in Italy, where he is also head of the Dipartimento di Storia e Tutela dei Beni Culturali. He read English at Balliol College, Oxford, followed by a Ph.D. at Leicester with Gordon Campbell on Milton and Italian Renaissance epic. He is best known as a bibliographer of the Italian printed Renaissance book, especially for the Bibliografia dell’ 'Orlando Innamorato' (1988–91). More recently he has worked on the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) and on the problem of lost Renaissance editions.
Edward Jones, Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and editor of Milton Quarterly, is currently preparing an edition of Milton’s state papers for Volume XI of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. Recently, he edited a collection of essays, Young Milton: The Emerging Author 1620–1642 (2013).
N.H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus at Stirling University, Scotland. His research interests lie in English literary and religious history of the early modern period. In 2013 he published with Nicholas McDowell Volume VI of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton, an edition of the vernacular regicide and republican writings. He leads a team preparing (again for Oxford) a scholarly edition of Reliquiae Baxterianae.
Sarah Knight is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the School of English, University of Leicester. She has co-edited (with Virginia Brown) and translated Leon Battista Alberti’s Momus (2003), John Milton’s Prolusions (forthcoming), and the accounts of Elizabeth’s visits to the University of Oxford in 1566 and 1592 for the new critical edition of John Nichols’s Progresses (2014). She is currently editing the plays of Fulke Greville and co-editing (with Stefan Tilg) The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin.
Jameela Lares is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. She is the author of Milton and the Preaching Arts (2001) and A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton, Volume 5, Part 8, Paradise Lost, Books 11–12 (2012), both for Duquesne University Press. She is preparing an edition of Milton’s Logic for Volume IX of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton.
Andrew McNeillie runs the Clutag Press and is the founding editor of the magazine Archipelago. His sixth collection of poems Winter Moorings appeared in February 2014. He is Professor Emeritus at Exeter University and was formerly the Literature Editor at Oxford University Press, where he commissioned the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton.
William Poole, Galsworthy Fellow in English and Fellow Librarian of New College, is the author of Milton and the Idea of the Fall (2005), John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning (2010), and The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth (2010), as well as many articles on literary and intellectual history. He is also co-editor of The Bibliographical Society’s journal, The Library.
Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She has published some two-dozen books (including Living Through Conquest, 2012) and fifty articles on medieval literature. She is Trustee of the English Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries.