‘Every thing by turns and nothing long’

St. Andrews

Gavin Hopps is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews. His books include Enchantment in Romantic Literature (2025), The Poems of Lord Byron, vols. IV and V: Don Juan (co-edited with Jane Stabler, 2024), The Extravagance of Music (with David Brown, 2018), Byron’s Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual, and the Supernatural (2013), and Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (2009).

Bowling Green State

Piya’s research and publications focus on the interdisciplinary and global contexts of nineteenth-century literature/material culture and their intersections with contemporary theory. She is the author of The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth Century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideration (2005) and co-editor, with Matthew Green, of an essay collection, Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror (2011). Her most recent book Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture: The Sultan's City, 1800-1876 was published by Bloomsbury Academic in July 2025, and presents a re- envisioning of encounters with the Eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman Turkey in Byron's work along with that of others. She also has an essay "Byron the Osmanli" forthcoming in a special issue of Studies in Romanticism "Byron and the Mediterranean", (October 2025) edited by Greg Kucich and Jeffrey Cox, which proposes a new approach to Byron's Turkish Tales.

Manchester

Alan Rawes is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. His publications as author and editor include Byron’s Poetic Experimentation (2000), English Romanticism and the Celtic World (2003), Romantic Biography (2003), Romanticism and Form (2007), Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom (2010), a special issue of Litteraria Pragensia on ‘Byron in Italy’ (2014), Byron and Italy (2017, winner of the 2018 Elma Dangerfield Prize), and The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (2024). He is a past editor of The Byron Journal (2005-12) and was Joint President of the International Association of Byron Societies between 2012 and 2023.