Meet the Editors
Sarah Lawall (Ph.D., Yale) is Professor Emerita of Contemporary Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include Critics of Consciousness: The Existential Structures of Literature and Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice.
William G. Thalman (Ph.D., Yale) is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey.
Lee Patterson (Ph.D., Yale) is F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University. His book Chaucer and the Subject of History was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award in 1991. He is also the author of Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380–1530 and Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature.
Heather James (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire.
Patricia Meyer Spacks (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Edgar J. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope; The Female Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.
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