Peter Ackroyd is one of Britain’s most respected historians and novelists. His many books include London: The Biography, Hawksmoor and the bestselling History of England series. He is also the author of The English Actor and The English Soul, both published by Reaktion Books.
Alfred Acres is the Wright Family Term Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and is the author of Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy (2013).
Gillian Adler is Assistant Professor of Literature and Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She is the author of Chaucer and the Ethics of Time (2022).
J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. His books include The Ethics of Reading (1986) and Hawthorne and History (1991).
James H. Rubin is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
The French critic Yves Abrioux has written extensively on Finlay’s work in articles and exhibition catalogues.
Sharon Fermor is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Sussex.
David Scott is Associate Professor of French at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the editor of the Garnier-Flammarion edition of Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris.
Peter Wagner’s other books include Erotica of the Enlightenment in England and America and Erotica and the Enlightenment.
Fred Orton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Leeds.