Andrew Hadfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the author of
Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (1994). He and Willy Maley co-edited
Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (1993), with Brendan Bradshaw.
Willy Maley is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Apart from his collaborative volume with Maley and Bradshaw, he is also the author of Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997) and A Spenser Chronology (1994).