Kevin Brownlee received his B.A. in English from Columbia University, his M.A. in French from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. in Romance languages from Princeton University. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French and Italian Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively both on Dante's Commedia and on the Roman de la Rose, as well as on Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Since 2019 he has been on active retirement, with essays published or forthcoming in Bibliotheca Dantesca, Digital Philology, Romania, MLN, Le Moyen Français, and the Lectura Boccaccii. He is interested both in Boccaccio's vernacular writings and in nineteenth-century treatments of the history and theory of the Crusade. He is currently finishing a book on first-person narrative from the Roman de Fauvel to René d'Anjou (in French), and is working on the political letters and the poetry (both Italian and Latin) of Francesco Petrarca.

Marina S. Brownlee received her B.A. in Hispanic studies from Smith College and her Ph.D. in Romance languages from Princeton University. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2002 she taught and chaired both at Dartmouth College and at the University of Pennsylvania. The Medieval and Early Modern periods are her primary focus, and within them her interests include cultural and linguistic translation, curiosity and the encyclopedia, and representations of the senses. Her books include The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas, The Severed Word: Ovid's 'Heroides' and the 'Novela Sentimental', The Status of the Reading Subject in the 'Libro de Buen Amor', and The Poetics of Literary Theory in Lope and Cervantes. Currently she is writing a book on curiosity and modernity in Early Modern Spain.