Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of
The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of eleven books, including
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom;
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare;
Hamlet in Purgatory;
Practicing New Historicism;
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; and
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including
Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal
Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
M. H. Abrams (Ph.D. Harvard) is Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for
The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for
Natural Supernaturalism. He is also the author of
The Milk of Paradise,
A Glossary of Literary Terms,
The Correspondent Breeze, and
Doing Things with Texts. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Postwar fellowships, the Award in Humanistic Studies from the Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Society (1987), and the Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1990). In 1999
The Mirror and the Lamp was ranked twenty-fifth among the Modern Library’s "100 best nonfiction books written in English during the twentieth century."
Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and President of Smith College. She is the author of
The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity and Victorian Poetry and
Victorian and Modern Poetics and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of
The Mill on the Floss and, with John Jordan,
Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. She is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Catherine Robson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor of English at New York University and a faculty member of the Dickens Project. She is the author of
Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman and
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (forthcoming), and has received fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the University of California, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.