Robert Hampson was for many years Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway and Research Fellow at the University of London Institute for English Studies. Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and currently co-editor of the journal The Conradian, he has edited numerous works by Conrad, Kipling and Rider Haggard for the Penguin Classics series. His previous publications on Conrad includes Conrad’s Secrets (2012) and Joseph Conrad: A Critical Life (2020).
Véronique Pauly is Senior Lecturer at the University of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines/University of Paris-Saclay, France a former Director of the Institut d’études culturelles et internationelles, and a researcher at the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines. She is President of the French Conradian Society and has published on Joseph Conrad and contemporary British writers.