Professor Andrew Carpenter has served as Head of the School of English, Drama and Film, and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at University College Dublin. In addition to numerous articles on Swift and the literature of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland, his publications include The Irish Perspective of Jonathan Swift, Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland and the ten-volume series Irish Writings from the Age of Swift.

Professor Ian Campbell Ross is Associate Professor of English and Director of Research in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Laurence Sterne: A Life, editor of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy for Oxford University Press, and co-editor of Locating Swift: Papers from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift.

Dr Aileen Douglas is Head of Discipline in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body, and co-editor of Locating Swift: Papers from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift.

Professor Joseph McMinn is Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at the University of Ulster. His books include Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life, Jonathan’s Travels: Swift and Ireland and Swift’s Irish Pamphlets: An Introductory Selection. As well as eighteenth-century England and Ireland, he works on the contemporary Irish novel and has published two books on John Banville.

Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha is Lecturer in Irish and English Literary and Historical studies at the University of Ulster. He is the author of Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment, and co-editor, with Jane Ohlmeyer, of The Dublin Statute Staple 1596-1687. He has published widely on Irish Jacobitism, law, order and disorder and the use of Irish-language sources for seventeenth and eighteenth-century Ireland, and his current research interests include the Irish outlaw, the Irish diaspora, Irish military history and the History of the Irish book.

Dr Adam Rounce is Research Fellow in English at the University of Keele. He works as part of the AHRC Jonathan Swift research project, which is producing a new edition of Swift’s complete works, to be published by Cambridge University Press. He has published widely on eighteenth-century poetry and satire, including an edition of works by Charles Churchill and three volumes of criticism of Alexander Pope. He is currently completing a book entitled The Aesthetics of Failure in the Eighteenth Century: The Unfulfilled Literary Life, 1720-1800.