Sonia Villegas-López is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Huelva in Spain. Her early research focused on contemporary female novelists and gender studies, and she has published a monograph on Margaret Atwood and Jane Rogers (Mujer y religión en la narrativa anglófona contemporánea, 1999), an introduction to feminist theology (El sexo olvidado, 2005), and articles and chapters on memory studies and the critical concept of the trace in Michèle Roberts’s production (Atlantis, Critique, Brill). From the beginning of her career, she has also shown an interest in the production of Restoration women writers like Aphra Behn, Mary Pix and Catherine Trotter, both in their plays and fiction, and several of her chapters and articles on their writings have appeared in Women’s Writing, Peter Lang and Cambria Press in the last few years. Since early 2018, she is the principal investigator of the research project “Early Novel in English, 1660-1700: Database and Textual Editing”, where she is mostly concerned with the transnational nature of early prose fiction, and currently works on the English editions and translations of French oriental tales of the 1670s and 1680s, as well as on the role played by Richard Bentley in the development and popularization of the novel form.

Tomás Monterrey is Professor of English literature at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain). His early research activity concentrated on 20^th-century British fiction. He co-authored Ensayos de metaficción inglesa (Universidad de La Laguna, 1994) with Galván, Díaz and Brito. He edited a collection of articles on contemporary Scottish fiction (Revista canaria de estudios ingleses 41, 2000) and has recently published several articles on Muriel Spark to commemorate her centenary anniversary. He also wrote essays and articles on the relationship between art and literature, and on the history of English Studies in Spain. Much of his research was also devoted to study Tenerife and the Canary Islands in English literature. This theme led him to his current interest in English Renaissance prose. He has written articles or presented conference papers on Francis Godwin, Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, James Howell, Thomas Lodge, and Samuel Pordage’s Eliana, among others. More recently, he has been guest editor of a special issue on “Restoration Fiction (1660-1714)” for Revista canaria de estudios ingleses 79 (2019).

María José Coperías-Aguilar is Professor of English literature at the University of Valencia (Spain). Her main teaching areas are literature, cultural studies and English for specific purposes, especially for the media. Her main areas of research are cultural studies, intercultural communicative competence, media in English, and literature by women. She has published widely on these areas of research both in academic journals and collective books (Routledge, Brill, Springer-Verlag). She has also published several critical editions in Spanish of the works of authors such as the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jean Rhys and Aphra Behn for the Series “Letras Universales” in Ediciones Cátedra, one the most prestigious and wide-ranging publishing houses in Spanish. She is currently a member of the research project “Early Novel in English, 1660-1700: Database and Textual Editing” (FFI2017-82728-P) and has participated in several conferences with papers on the emergence of the English novel. Her latest contribution is the article “Foigny’s Terra Incognita Australis. Discovering a New Land, Building up the Novel Genre” (2019), in the monographic issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses on the topic of Restoration Fiction (1660-1714).

Rafael Vélez-Núñez is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cádiz (Spain), where he teaches Renaissance literature. His research interests include Jonsonian masques (Retórica de la representación: la mascarada Jonsoniana como panesthesia, 1999), poetry, music and madness in the Restoration,as well as classical, Renaissance and contemporary myths (La imaginación mítica, 2002) and gender studies (Géneros extremos/extremos genéricos: la política cultural del discurso pornográfico, 2006). In the last few years, he has investigated the relevance of music and dances in Restoration drama, as his latest contributions to the volumes Restoration Comedy: A Catalogue (2015), and Restoration Comedy, 1671-1682 (2019) prove, both published by Teneo Press. In the ENEID Project, Rafael Vélez is in charge of the study of the fiction of the 1680s, and most specifically he focuses on the prevalence and revision of the nouvelle historique in English fiction.