Editors of The Literary Encyclopedia

General Editor

Dr Robert Clark (University of East Anglia, Norwich)

Assistant Editors

Dr Cristina Sandru; Maggie Selby

Area Editors

African Literature

Herbert Ekwe Ekwe (Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar)
Femi Nzegwu (Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar)
Professor James Ogude (University of Witwatersrand)

Australian Literature

Professor Christopher Wallace Crabbe (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Professor Amanda Nettlebeck (University of Adelaide)
Professor Peter Pierce (James Cook University)
Professor Paul Sharrad (University of Wollongong)

Canadian Literature

Dr Glen Nichols (Moncton University)*
Dr Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan)*
Professor Denis Salter (McGill University)

Chinese Literature

Professor Wong Nim-yan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Professor Bonnie McDougall (Chinese University of Hong Kong and Edinburgh University)*

Classical Greek Literature

Professor Vayos Liapis (University of Montreal)

English Literature

Dr Robert Clark (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
Dr Richard Dance (University of Cambridge)
Professor Jacqueline Eales (University of Canterbury)
Professor Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto)
Professor Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne)
Professor David Fuller (University of Durham)
Professor Hugh Magennis (Queen's University, Belfast)*
Professor Kenneth Newton (University of Dundee)
Professor David Roberts (Birmingham City University)
Professor Corinne Saunders (University of Durham)
Mr. Aleks Sierz (Rose Bruford College, London)
Professor Philip Tew (Brunel University)
Professor Janet Todd (University of Aberdeen)
Professor Richard Utz (University of Northern Iowa)*

French Literature

Professor Tim Unwin (University of Bristol)
Dr David Houston Jones (University of Exeter)
Professor David Williams* (University of Sheffield)

German Literature

Professor Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah)
Professor Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University)

Hispanic Literature

Professor Jeremy Lawrance (University of Nottingham)
Professor Bernard McGuirk (University of Nottingham)
Dr Ben Bollig (University of Leeds)
Dr Stuart Green (University of Leeds)

Irish Literature in English

Professor Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College, Dublin)
Dr Anne Markey (Trinity College, Dublin)

Latin Literature

Professor William J. Dominik (University of Otago)
Dr Paul A. Roche (University of Sydney)
Professor Thomas Habinek (University of California)*

New Literatures in English/ Postcolonial Literatures

Professor John Thieme (University of East Anglia)
Dr David Huddart (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

New Zealand Literature

Professor Jenny Lawn (Massey University)

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Writing

Dr Nicholas Ray (University of Leeds)

Russian Literature

Professor Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

Scottish Literature

Dr Derrick McClure (University of Aberdeen)

United States Literature

Professor Emory Elliott (University of California at Riverside)
Professor Alfred Bendixen (Texas A&M University)
Dr. Christopher Gair (University of Glasgow)
Professor David Krasner (Yale University)
Professor Mason Lowance (University of Massachussetts)
Professor John M. Gonzalez (University of Texas at Austin)
Professor Carl Gutierrez-Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Professor Gordon Hutner (University of Illinois at Urbana)
Professor Stephen Meats (Pittsburg State University)
Professor Daniel Peck (Vassar)
Dr Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

*indicates an editor who has retired but whose work remains represented in the Encyclopedia.

The Founding Editors

A list of all the achievements of all our editors would fill a fat volume, so please excuse us offering merely the following profiles of the founding editors as a way of establishing the scholarly bona fides of the enterprise.

Robert Clark is Reader in English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia. Having first studied medicine, then made documentary films, he was trained as a Comparatist at the University of Essex and has since then been studying English, American and French literature, history and social thought since 1688. In 1989 he began to develop database applications and since then has been deepeing his understanding of how they can best be used to serve fellow students and scholars. The Literary Encyclopedia is thus unusual in that it is directed by a scholar who has usually built and tested an application before giving it to the specialists for web publication. In 1994 he began developing The Annotated Bibliography for English Studies, now published by Routledge, and he served as its Editorial Director until 2003. ABES now makes available 5m words of critical guidance to what is worth reading on English Studies, and which was judged by the MLA as one of the ‘outstanding publications of 1999’. He has edited with Thomas Healy The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Writing in English, is the author of History and Myth in American Fiction, edited works by Austen, Fenimore Cooper and Defoe, and edited collections of essays or written essays on The Spectator, Defoe, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Angela Carter and Michael Ondaatje. He was Founding Secretary of the European Society for the Study of English (1989-1995), is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Foundation Fellow of the English Association, Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the UK Humanities Hub and has twice been an Executive member of the Council for College and University English in the UK. He has recently prepared with Penny Pritchard an edition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century commentary on the works of Defoe. His current personal research is a study of Jane Austen in relation to the capitalisation of agriculture during the French wars.

Emory Elliott is one of North America’s most distinguished literary historians. He is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England (1975), Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic (1982), American Puritan Literature, Volume One of The Cambridge History of American Literature (1993). He has edited the Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988), American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology (1991), and the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991). He has been an NEH, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim and National Humanities Center Fellow, and most recently a Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of California. In 2005 he was elected chair of the American Studies Association.

Janet Todd is Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, a pioneering scholar of women’s writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and a critic and biographer of international distinction. She founded the journal Women and Literature and has compiled and edited two dictionaries of British and American women writers. She is the author of In Adam’s Garden: A Study of John Clare (1973), Women’s Friendship in Literature (1980), Sensibility: An Introduction (1986), Feminist Literary History (1988), The Sign of Angellica (1989), Gender, Art and Death (1993). She has edited with Marilyn Butler The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as novels by Austen, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley and James Lawrence. She has edited seven volumes of Aphra Behn’s work, published biographies of Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft and acted as General Editor for the new Jane Austen edition published by Cambridge University Press. She has received awards from the NEH, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, Leverhulme Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Huntington Library. She has held fellowships at Sidney Sussex and Newnham Colleges, Cambridge, and is currently honorary fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. She is president of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and has served on the English panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Board.