ANDREW BENNETT Professor of English, University of Bristol, UKPETER DE BOLLA Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge, UKCLAUDIA BRODSKY Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USASOELVE CURDTS Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USAFRANCES FERGUSON Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, USA PAUL HAMILTON Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London, UKGEOFFREY HARTMAN Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus) and Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, USAMARY JACOBUS Grace 2 Professor of English, and Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK SIMON JARVIS Gorley Putt Professor of Poetry and Poetics, University of Cambridge, UK