Matthew Campbell writes mainly about poetry from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. He taught Victorian, Modern and Irish literature at Sheffield University before going to York as Professor of Modern Literature in 2011. His first book was on Victorian poetry and he was the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry.

Charles I. Armstrong is professor of British literature at the University of Agder (in Norway). At the University of Agder, he is a member of the Agder Irish Network (AINE) and the research group Trauma Fictions in Contemporary Culture. He is a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI-Galway. He has been an invited speaker at the W. B. Yeats International Summer School in 2005, 2011 and 2014.