R. V. Young

R. V. Young is Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He is co-founder of the John Donne Journal and was co-editor for 25 years. In 2008 he became the editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. His bilingual edition of Justus Lipsius' Concerning Constancy is forthcoming from Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. In addition to scholarly books and articles, he has also contributed to journals such as First Things, National Review, The Weekly Standard, the St. Austin Review, and Touchstone, of which he is a contributing editor.

Anthony Esolen

Anthony Esolen is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Providence College. Among his books are a three-volume translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House), and Ironies of Faith: The Deep Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature (ISI Books, 2007). He is the author of the recently released Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery, 2008). He is also a senior editor of Touchstone.

Douglas Lane Patey

Douglas Lane Patey is Sophia Smith Professor of English at Smith College. He has written books on the history of literary theory, concepts of addiction, and the novels of Evelyn Waugh, as well as articles on Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Hegel, and the history of divisions between "art" and "science".

Mary Reichardt

Mary Reichardt is Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received a PhD in literature from the University of Wisconson, Madison. She has published seven books, including Catholic Women Writers (Greenwood, 2001), Exploring Catholic Literature (Sheed and Ward / Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature (Greenwood, 2004).

Crystal Downing

With a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Crystal Downing has published on a wide variety of literary topics, from Shakespeare to the Brontës, and has won both national and international awards for her essays on film. Much of her recent scholarship focuses on the relationship between postmodernism and faith, an issue which informs her book Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Palgrave Macmillan 2004) and How Postmodernism Serves (my) Faith (InterVarsity 2006).

Downing is Professor of English and Film Studies at Messiah College in Grantham, PA, where she has been honored with the Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has several goals in life which she may never achieve: 1) to see every Frank Lloyd Wright house in America; 2) to run every country road, cross every covered bridge, and hike up every waterfall in Pennsylvania.