Raimund Borgmeier

Raimund Borgmeier is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Giessen, Germany. Several times he was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, both in Madison and Milwaukee. His research fields are Shakespeare, eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature, special genres (science fiction, crime fiction), and contemporary literature.

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. Her first book, Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Palgrave), was granted the Barbara Reynolds Award for outstanding Sayers scholarship in 2009. Her second book, How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith (IVP Academic) is used as a textbook in college and seminary classrooms throughout North America.

Downing taught Shakespeare for many years at UCLA before taking a position at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, where she is professor of English and film studies. In addition to presentations at academic conferences, her work on Shakespeare has appeared in College Literature and Literature/Film Quarterly.

Anthony Esolen

Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. His work includes the Modern Library translations of Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House), Ironies of Faith: The Deep Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature (ISI Books), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery).

Michael Hanke

Michael Hanke obtained his PhD and his habilitation at German universities. He has published books on Roy Campbell and John Crowe Ransom; written articles on Renaissance, Romantic, and twentieth-century literature; and edited a sonnet anthology as well as several collections of critical essays, including one on the poetry of Charles Causley.

Mitchell Kalpakgian

Mitchell Kalpakgian (PhD, University of Iowa) is professor emeritus of humanities at Wyoming Catholic College. He has taught English literature for over forty years at several other schools: Simpson College (Iowa), Christendom College (Virginia), and Magdalen College (New Hampshire). A contributing editor of New Oxford Review, his articles and book reviews have also appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, the Wanderer, and Saint Austin Review. He is the author of several books: The Marvelous in Fielding's Novels, The Mysteries of Life in Children's Literature, The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization, and An Armenian Family Reunion (a collection of short stories). His latest book is The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization: Hospitality, Conversion, Letter-Writing, the Enjoyment of People, the Art of Pleasing and Courtship (Neumann Press, 2009).

Robert P. Lewis

Robert P. Lewis is emeritus professor of English at Marist College and holds a PhD in Victorian Literature from New York University. He has published articles and reviews in Religion and the Arts and Literature and Theology, and has an essay forthcoming in a volume from Catholic University Press on contemporary Catholic writers. He instituted, and for a decade directed, the Catholic studies program at Marist.

Regis Martin

Regis Martin is professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where, in addition to courses on Christ and the Church, he teaches such landmarks of literature as the works of Dante, Eliot, and Flannery O'Connor. The author of several books, including The Last Things and The Suffering of Love, he is married and the father of many children.