Sunil Agnani is Associate Professor of English and History at the University of Illinois in Chicago and author of a study of Burke and Diderot, Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism (2013), awarded the Harry Levin Prize for Best First Book from the American Comparative Literature Association. He has held fellowships from the Princeton Society of Fellows, the UCLA Center for Seventeenth & Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Rice University’s Humanities Research Center.
Piroska Balogh, PhD is Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Cultural Studies and Hungarian Literature (Budapest, Hungary). Main fields of research: history of Hungarian aesthetics, and neolatin literature in Hungary between 1750–1900. She translated the principal monographs on aesthetics of this period (Georg Aloys Szerdahely’s and Johann Ludwig Schedius’s works) from Latin to Hungarian, and published them with commentaries. She is currently working on an anthology of polyglot tractates on aesthetics from Hungary between 1750–1850, intended as a basis for a detailed synopsis of the history of Hungarian aesthetics. List of publications at: https://vm.mtmt.hu/search/slist.php?lang=0&AuthorID=10013090.
Gregory Claeys was born in France and educated in Canada and the United Kingdom. He has taught in Germany and the US and since 1992 has been Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Machinery, Money and the Millennium: From Moral Economy to Socialism (Princeton University Press, 1987), Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought (Unwin Hyman, 1989); The French Revolution Debate in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Searching for Utopia: the History of an Idea (Thames & Hudson, 2011; German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese editions), and Mill and Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and (with Gareth Stedman Jones), The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2011), as well as some fifty volumes of primary sources. He is currently writing a book on the concept and historical manifestations of dystopia.
Norbert Col is Professor of British history and literature at Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient (France) and is a member of UMR 6258, CERHIO. He is the author of a bilingual edition of Burke’s An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1996), of Burke, le contrat social et les révolutions (2001) and of À la recherche du conservatisme britannique: historiographie, britannicité, modernité. XVIIe-XXe siècles (2007), all for Presses Universitaires de Rennes. He has also edited Écritures de soi (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007).
Cecil Patrick Courtney is Emeritus Reader in French Intellectual History and Bibliography in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College. His publications include Montesquieu and Burke (Oxford, 1962), Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen); a biography (Oxford, 1993), and numerous articles on eighteenth-century topics, particularly on Montesquieu, Burke and Raynal. He is General Editor of Benjamin Constant’s Correspondance générale, and co-editor of new editions of Montesquieu’s Œuvres complètes and Raynal’s Histoire philosophique des deux Indes. He is Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Corresponding member of the Académie de Bordeaux.
Martin Fitzpatrick, formerly Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the department of History and Welsh History Aberystwyth University, was co-founder, with D. O. Thomas, and co-editor with James Dybikowski, of the journal Enlightenment and Dissent. He has edited the Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin; vol. I, Political Writings I, gen. ed. Mark Philp, Pickering and Chatto (1993), and with Peter Jones, Iain McCalman and Christa Knellwolf, The Enlightenment World (Routledge, 2004). His publications range over topics to do with the Enlightenment and religious toleration. They include the essay on ‘Enlightenment’ in Iain McCalman (ed.) The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, ‘Enlightenment and Toleration’ in Ole Grell and Roy Porter (eds) Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (2000)), and Marc G. Spencer (ed.) ‘England and the American Enlightenment’ in the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of the American Enlightenment (2014).
Tomáš Hlobil has a degree in Czech and German Studies from Palacký University in Olomouc and a PhD in Aesthetics from Charles University in Prague, and is currently Professor of Aesthetics at Prague and Olomouc. He has been awarded numerous scholarships and grants (for example, from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Fulbright Foundation). His chief research interests are the history of European aesthetics from the late seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, the emergence and early years of aesthetics as a university subject, and early Bohemian aesthetics, both Czech and German. His articles have appeared, for example, in Kant-Studien, Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, British Journal of Aesthetics, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, and Česká literatura, and his book publications include Jazyk, poezie a teorie nápodoby (Příspěvek k dějinám britské a německé estetiky 18. století) (Language, poetry, and the theory of imitation: A contribution to the history of eighteenth-century British and German aesthetics) (Olomouc, 2001). František Palacký, An Historical Survey of the Science of Beauty and the Literature on the Subject (Olomouc, 2002), and Geschmacksbildung im Nationalinteresse: Die Anfänge der Prager Universitätsästhetik im mitteleuropäischen Kulturraum 1763–1805 (Hanover, 2012).
Jeremy Jennings is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He previously held professorial appointments at the University of Birmingham, Queen Mary University of London and the Fondation Natiionale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He has written extensively on the history of political ideas in France. His last monograph was entitled Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press), which was awarded the Franco-British Society’s Enid McLeod prize. He is presently completing a study called Travels with Tocqueville. He also writes regularly for the monthly magazine Standpoint.
Peter Jones is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, where he was also Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He devised many scholarly projects attended by Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ambassadors, and three ground-breaking exhibitions on Enlightenment themes at the Royal Museum of Scotland. He gave the Gifford Lectures in 1995 on ‘Science and Religion before and after Hume’, has held numerous Visiting Professorships and Fellowships abroad and served on many governing bodies, including the Royal Society of Edinburgh. After early work on the nineteenth-century novel, his main interests have centred on eighteenth-century philosophy, sciences and technology, together with opera, music and the arts of the period, spanning the time from Claude Perrault and Pierre Bayle to the philosophes and the clavichord works of C. P. E. Bach. He is the author and editor of over 150 articles and books, including Philosophy and the Novel (1975), Hume’s Sentiments (1982), Adam Smith Reviewed (ed.1992), The Reception of David Hume in Europe (ed. 2005), Ove Arup, Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century (2006) and with Martin Fitzpatrick, The Enlightenment World (2004).
László Kontler is Professor of History at Central European University (Budapest). His research and publications range across the history of political and historical thought, translation and reception in the history of ideas, and the production and exchange of knowledge, in the early modern period, mainly the Enlightenment. He is the Hungarian translator and editor of Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1990). His English language books include A History of Hungary (1999/2002) and Translations, Histories, Enlightenments. William Robertson in Germany, 1760–1795 (2014); he edited, with Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires. A Decentered View (2014). He is one of the editors of the European Review of History / Revue d’histoire européenne and Europäische Geschichte Online / European History Online.
Wessel Krul (1950) is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). He has published widely on historiography, art theory and heritage studies. In 2004 he translated and introduced the first complete Dutch edition of Burke’s Enquiry.
Daniele Niedda teaches English Literature at UNINT (Università degli Studi Internazionali) in Rome. His main fields of research are the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To Edmund Burke he has dedicated two books (Linguaggio ed emozioni in Edmund Burke, 2003, and Governare la diversità. Edmund Burke e l’India, 2013) and several articles. He has also written on travel literature (Joseph Addison e l’Italia, 1993), aesthetics, philosophy of language, collecting and narrative. He is currently working on a book on Benjamin Disraeli.
Anthony Page is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Tasmania and reviews editor for the journal Enlightenment & Dissent. He is author of Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1744–1815: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism (Praeger, 2003), ‘Rational Dissent, Enlightenment and Abolition of the British Slave Trade’, The Historical Journal, 54 (2011): 741–72, and other articles on politics and religion in late eighteenth-century Britain.
Aris Sarafianos is currently Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He received his PhD from Manchester University where he taught for a number of years (2001–08). He has held long-term fellowships from the Huntington Library and the Clark Library/UCLA, and his research has been supported by awards from the Paul Mellon Centre in London/Yale University and the YCBA at Yale University. His work focuses on the extensive interactions between the history of medicine (physiology, anatomy, pathology and therapeutic practices) and art history, criticism and the history of literature, music and travel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is especially interested in the complex interdisciplinary and inter-professional issues raised by such interactions. He has published extensively on a wide range of related topics in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. The title of his book in progress is The Sublime Real: Medical Men and Art Professionals, 1757–1824.
Lioba Simon-Schuhmacher is Associate Professor in English Studies (University of Oviedo, www.uniovi.es) and teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She was seconded to the ERASMUS programme in Brussels, and also worked for the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Agency for Quality of the Universities of Madrid (ACAP). Among around a hundred publications feature intercultural and higher education policy studies (e.g. THES), and books and articles, including on the Enlightenment. She is on the governing board of the Foundation ‘Foro Jovellanos’ in Gijón, and co-director of the eighteenth-century magazine Cuadernos Jovellanistas (www.jovellanos.org). For more details: http://www.uniovi.net/lioba.
Mark G. Spencer is Associate Professor of History at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario. His monograph on David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (University of Rochester Press, 2005) was reissued as a paperback in 2010. He has introduced editions of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Locke, and has edited or co-edited several collections, including Hume’s Reception in Early America, 2 vols (Thoemmes, 2002), Utilitarians and Their Critics in America, 1789–1914, 4 vols (Continuum, 2005), Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics and Identity (Four Courts Press, 2006), David Hume: Historical Thinker, Historical Writer (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) and, most recently, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, 2 vols (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). His shorter pieces have appeared in a variety of scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The William and Mary Quarterly. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Board Member and past President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, and sits on the editorial boards of Enlightenment and Dissent and Hume Studies.