President: Nathalie Collé (Université de Lorraine, France)
nathalie.colle@univ-lorraine.fr
Nathalie Collé is Professor of English Studies at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and Director of the research centre IDEA (Interdisciplinarité Dans les Études Anglophones), where she also co-directs the research projects “Text, Image and Book Itineraries” and “Literary Afterlives”. She specialises in the illustration of classics of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature. The fields covered by her research include book history, print culture, visual and material culture, text-image relationships, adaptation and intermediality. She has recently completed a monograph entitled Literary Afterlives: Illustration, Adaptation and Intermediality. She is co-founder of the international research network Illustr4tio, and co-founder, co-director and co-editor of Book Page Text Image, formerly Book Practices & Textual Itineraries, a book collection devoted to book history, textual scholarship and illustration studies published at EDUL (Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine) since 2011. For further details, see her institutional web-page: http://idea.univ-lorraine.fr/membres/colle-nathalie
Vice-President: Jameela Lares (University of Southern Mississippi)
Jameela Lares is Professor Emerita of English and Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Her major publications have been on John Milton, including a monograph (Milton and the Preaching Arts), a volume on Paradise Lost, books 11-12 in the Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton), and a monograph-length facing-page translated edition of Milton’s Art of Logic (Ars Logica Plenior Institutio) forthcoming in Oxford University Press’s Complete Works of John Milton. She is also a charter member of the International John Bunyan Society and has published on Bunyan in the Brill series New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric, with another chapter forthcoming in an upcoming volume. She has published numerous articles and reviews and has presented at nearly 100 national and international conferences. She additionally has been active in the field of children’s and young adult literature, especially in directing theses and dissertations and in teaching both in the US and in study-abroad programs in the UK and France.
General Secretary: Daniel Johnson (London School of Theology)
Daniel Johnson (PhD, FHEA) is Programme Leader for the Theology and Worship degree at London School of Theology. His PhD (2024) from the University of Leicester concentrated on the dissenting minister Isaac Watts. The thesis is now under contract with Routledge Press as the forthcoming monograph, Isaac Watts: Evangelical Dissent and the Early Enlightenment. He is co-editor of the forthcoming volume The Legacy of Isaac Watts’ Hymnody, also under contract with Routledge. Daniel was the 2024 winner of the International John Bunyan Society’s Roger F. Pooley Early Career Essay Prize, for his essay, Isaac Watts and the Crisis of Dissenting Christology. Daniel is co-chair of the ‘British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century’ study group, which meets under the auspices of the American Society for Church History. Daniel has presented his research internationally, at an interdisciplinary range of conferences.
European Treasurer / Co-Editor of Bunyan Studies: Rachel Adcock (Keele University)
Rachel Adcock is Reader in English Literature at Keele University, UK. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century women’s writing, dissenting writing and culture, and textual studies, with a particular interest in the recovery and appreciation of historically overlooked female writers. She has published widely on women’s contributions to seventeenth-century puritan theology and practice and on dissenting culture more generally. Her monograph, Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680, was shortlisted for the Richard L. Greaves Prize in 2016. More recently, she has contributed editions of two Exclusion Crisis plays to the eight-volume, original spelling edition of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn. She is now embarking on a project to edit The Correspondence of Richard Baxter, Vol. 7 (1676–84) for Oxford University Press. For further details, see her institutional webpage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities-social-sciences/ourpeople/racheladcock/
North American Treasurer: Andy Draycott (Biola University)
Andy Draycott is Professor of Theology at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in Southern California. He is co-editor, with Margaret Sönser Breen, of the Norton Library series edition of The Pilgrim’s Progress (2025) and author of Into the Pilgrimverse: Contemporary Reception and Adaptation of The Pilgrim’s Progress (Pickwick, 2025) and a contributor to Global Bunyan and Visual Art (Blooomsbury, 2025). He is working on a follow up book, provisionally entitled The Pilgrimverse Mysteries. On-going research projects include: a Broad Variorum Commentary on The Pilgrim’s Progress; and a theological account and analysis of reader marginalia. He has published peer-reviewd articles in journals such as Bunyan Studies, the Harvard Theological Review, and the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. For further details, see his institutional web page: https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/andy-draycott
Editor of The Recorder: Richard Angelo Bergen (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Richard Angelo Bergen completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia (2022), and works as a College Lecturer at Corpus Christi College in Vancouver, BC. He has won two Canada Graduate Awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for his MA and his PhD, and he won the 2023 Roger Pooley Early Career Award for an essay on John Bunyan’s representation of geography and architecture. His interest in John Bunyan was sparked in his undergraduate degree, when he noticed himself much more enthused than his classmates about Bunyan’s dreamworld. He completed a BA Honours thesis and MA thesis on John Bunyan’s stories, and his PhD work (soon-to-be monograph) discusses, more broadly, the use of space and place in allegorical narratives. Richard’s research interests also “look backward” from Bunyan to medieval pilgrimages and traditions of allegory, and “look forward” to fantasy literature (especially the British Inklings) and concept albums. He has been the editor of The Recorder since 2019.
Co-Editor of Bunyan Studies: David Gay (University of Alberta)
David Gay is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Alberta where he taught courses on early modern literature, the history of reading, Milton, Shakespeare, the Bible and literature, and William Blake. He is co-editor of Bunyan Studies (2024-), a past president of the IJBS (2016-19) and past General Secretary of the IJBS (1995-2010). Publications include The Endless Kingdom: Milton’s Scriptural Society (Delaware University Press, 2002) and Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan (University of Toronto Press, 2021). For further information see: https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/dgay
Webmistress: Shannon Murray (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Shannon Murray is a Professor and 3M National Teaching Fellow. She teaches Early Modern and Children’s literature at the University of Prince Edward Island, on the east coast of Canada. The founding editor of The Recorder, she has published on Bunyan’s Book for Boys and Girls, on adaptations for children, as well as on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her book Bounce and Beans and Burn won the L. M. Montgomery Literature for Children Award. Along with her collaborators Dr. Lisa Dickson and Dr Jessica Riddell, she has most recently published Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning (University of Toronto Press). For further details, see her institutional web-page:https://islandscholar.ca/people/smurray.
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