Gerard Carruthers is General Editor of the OUP Collected Works of Robert Burns, author of Scottish Literature, A Critical Guide (EUP, 2009) and Robert Burns (Northcote, 2004). He has edited a dozen essay-collections or critical editions and written many essays in literary studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.


Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of all Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of several books on the history of ethnic and national identities, including Subverting Scotland's Past (CUP, 1993), British Identities before Nationalism (1999), The Forging of Races (CUP, 2006), and Union and Unionisms (CUP, 2008). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. His most recent book, The World of Mr Casaubon (CUP, 2016) is a study of George Eliot's deluded mythographer and his Key to All Mythologies.