Matthew Bevis

Matthew Bevis is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of York. His books include The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007), which includes a chapter on the relations between Dickens's writing and political oratory.

John Bowen

John Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York. He has written widely on Dickens. His books include a study of Dickens's early works, Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (OUP, 2000).

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He had edited Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol for OUP. His next book, Becoming Dickens, is forthcoming in 2011.

Corinna Russell

Corinna Russell is Lecturer in English and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her publications include the volume on Dickens in the Victorian Lives series (Pickering and Chatto, 2003).

Garrett Stewart

Garrett Stewart is James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at Iowa University. His many books include Dickens and the Trials of Imagination (Harvard, 1974) and, most recently, Novel Violence (Chicago, 2009).

Bharat Tandon

Bharat Tandon is College Lecturer in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has written on Jane Austen and Henry Green, among others, and regularly contributes to the TLS. His next book, Ghosts of Sound: Haunting Figures in Victorian Writing, considers memory and echoing in Dickens and others.