Michael Bath Author

Tom Furniss recently retired from the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in 2017, after teaching poetry, Romanticism, and literary theory for 30 years. He is the author of two monographs on Romanticism, co-author of several editions of the textbook Ways of Reading (Routledge) and recently published two collections of poetry.

Michael Bath is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Strathclyde, where he taught English literature for 40 years, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Author of numerous books and articles on literature and the visual arts, he specialises in emblem studies and in 2014 he was elected President of the international Society for Emblem Studies.