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Willa Murphy Editor

Willa Murphy lectures in English at Ulster University. Willa Murphy's publications explore the intersection of theology, literature, and culture, from the eighteenth century to the present day. She is the recipient of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Fellowship, and of the Keough–Naughton Hesburgh Library Research Award. She is Assistant Editor of the Steinbeck Review. Chris Murray (FRAS) is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University. With interdisciplinary interests in transcultural exchange, his writing includes the books China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism (2020), Tragic Coleridge (2013), and a memoir, Crippled Immortals: Shaolin Enlightenment on a Singapore High-Rise (2018).