Robert Whalen is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Northern Michigan University. He is the author of a book and articles on George Herbert and John Donne, as well as articles on digital editing and textual scholarship, the latter all pertaining to his career-long engagement with the Herbert corpus. He is co-editor, with Christopher Hodgkins, of The Digital Temple as well as the forthcoming The Temple and The Country Parson for Oxford World's Classics. He has been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and, with Hodgkins, is a three-time recipient of the NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant.
Christopher Hodgkins is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Atlantic World Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. In addition to the publications and grants shared with Robert Whalen, he is author or editor of seven books treating topics including Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, the imperial imagination, and the Bible. He serves on the consortium board of the Folger Institute in Washington, DC, and on the consortium board of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. He directs the international George Herbert Society and has been invited to address audiences across North America and at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Bangor, Edinburgh, Catania, Aarhus, and Paris; at Salisbury and Canterbury Cathedrals; and at the Vatican.
