Annick Duperray is Emerita Professor of American Literature at Aix-Marseille Université, and was Overseas Project Director for the British Academy Network Group on Reception Studies from 2004 to 2009. She holds a doctorate on English fin-de-siècle literature and a Doctorat d'Etat on Henry James. Her major publications include an analytical study of Henry James's tales, Echec et écriture: essai sur les nouvelles d'Henry James (1993), and several contributions, notably to Henry James in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Tracing Henry James (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). She was volume editor for the first and third volume of the critical edition of Henry James's Nouvelles complètes (Editions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2003/2011).
Elinor Shaffer, FBA, is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Director of the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. The author of
The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880(Cambridge University Press), and
Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer,
and Art Critic (Reaktion), and many articles on Coleridge's aesthetics and other topics in European Romantic studies, she was a founder member of the British Comparative Literature Association and editor of the annual journal
Comparative Criticism(Cambridge), and has taught in universities in Britain, the United States, and Europe.
