Nicholas Taylor-Collins is Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University, UK, where he teaches on early modern, twentieth- and twenty-first literature. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick, having also studied at The University of Manchester. His research focuses widely both on early modern English literature, and modern and contemporary Irish literature, with publications on Shakespeare, James Joyce and John McGahern.

Stanley van der Ziel is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University, Ireland, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and Irish literature. His publications include numerous articles on Irish authors, from Yeats to Joseph O’Neill. He is the author of John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition (2016), and the editor of two editions of McGahern’s works: Love of the World: Essays (2009) and The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings (2018).