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Kathryn Banks Author & Editor

Kathryn Banks is Associate Professor of French at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance (2008) and has published essays on Rabelais, sixteenth-century poets, apocalyptic writing, Chrétien de Troyes, and cognitive approaches to literature. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2013. 

 

Timothy Chesters is University Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century French Studies and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night (2011). He has also published on Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, and Flaubert, and on cognitive approaches to literature.