Jude V. Nixon is Professor of English, former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Salem State University, and habilitated Professor in the Polish Academy. His teaching and research interests are Victorian literature and culture and Anglo-Phone Caribbean literature. Professor Nixon is author/editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Contemporaries: Liddon, Newman, Darwin, and Pater (Garland, 1994), Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism (AIAA, 2004), and Science, Religion, and Natural Theology (Pickering & Chatto, 2011). His publications appear in such journals as Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Times Literary Supplement, and The Hopkins Quarterly. Noel Barber has been Principal of Belvedere College, Dublin, Gonzaga College Dublin; Rector of Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy; and Assistant Provincial Superior of Irish Jesuits. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in Education at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Visiting Scholar at The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and has given papers on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1845-1889) over the past 23 years at Monastereven, Ireland; Regis University, Denver Colorado; The Gregorian University, Rome; Milltown Institute, Dublin; Oxford University; the University of Roehampton, London; and St. Beuno's College, Wales. Dr Barber has published on Hopkins in Hopkins Quarterly, Studies--An Irish Quarterly Review, and Milltown Studies.
