Randall Stevenson is Emeritus Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature in the University of Edinburgh. He began his career in a teacher-training college in North-West State, Nigeria. He has lectured abroad, often for the British Council - in Egypt, Nigeria, South Korea, and Australia, as well as in a dozen European countries - and was a Fellow of the Humanities Research Centre in the Australian National University, Canberra, in 2018. His writing concentrates on twentieth-century fiction and drama and its shaping by the pressures of contemporary history.

Greg Walker is Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously Masson Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh, and also worked at the Universities of Leicester, Buckingham, and Queensland. He began his career as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton. He writes primarily on the literature and drama of the medieval-to-Renaissance period in England and Scotland.