Michael Hollington is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail II. His interests include English literature from Milton to the present day, and German literature and literary criticism. He has written a great deal on Dickens, and is currently working on The Companion to 'David Copperfield' as well as preparing a book on Dickens and Gothic Fiction.
Marianne Camus is maître de conférences at the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon). She is particularly interested in the relations between ideology and literary discourse, on which she has published various articles. The elaboration of a female literary aesthetics in Europe is another field she is currently exploring.