Angelica Duran is Professor at Purdue University, where she has been on the English and Comparative Literature faculties since earning her Ph.D. in English Literature from Stanford in 2000. She served as Purdue's Director of Religious Studies from 2009 to 2013. She is the editor of A Concise Companion to Milton (2007, pbk. And rev. 2011) and The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries (2014), the co-editor of Mo Yan in Context, and the author of Milton among Spaniards (2020), The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution (2007), and more than 40 articles and chapters. Her professional roles include President of the Milton Society of America (2020-21) and editorial board member of Milton Quarterly (2005-). Islam Issa is Reader in Literature and History at Birmingham City University. He has published on the global and digital reception of early modern English literature,including the award-winning book, Milton in the Arab-Muslim World (2016, pbk. 2019) and Digital Milton (2018, pbk. 2019). He is translating and editing the first Arabic edition of Milton's sonnets and has worked as a simultaneous interpreter of Arabic to English for a range of high-profile figures. Issa has written regularly on Milton for such media outlets as The Guardian and Times Literary Supplement. He is also a regular broadcaster on the BBC, for whom he has presented television and radio documentaries and served as Research Consultant for the BBC Poetry Season episode on Milton. Jonathan R. Olson is Associate Professor of English at Grand Canyon University, where he teaches in the Honors College. He taught literature and film as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool and held a Mellon Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and at the Newberry Library. His research focuses on early modern English literature, book history, and cinema, and he contributed recently to Global Milton and Visual Art (2021) and Essays and Studies (2021). For research on Selling an English Canon: Literary Publishing, 1640-1710, he held bibliographical fellowships at the Beinecke, Clark, Houghton, and Huntington libraries.
