Jan Čermák

Charles University, Prague

Jan Čermák is Professor of English at Charles University in Prague. His research is focused on the history of English, with particular interests in Old and Early Middle English morphology, word-formation and literary language, on Old and Middle English literature, with particular interests in heroic poetry, romance and the Alliterative Revival, and on the history of Finnish, with particular interests in The Kalevala. His books include Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech (co-authored with František Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková; John Benjamins, 2016) and Elias Lönnrotʼs and Josef Holečekʼs Kalevala in a Modern Critical Perspective (Kalevala Eliase Lönnrota a Josefa Holečka v moderní kritické perspektivě; Prague: Academia, 2014). His translations from Old English into Czech include Beowulf, The Exodus, The Dream of the Rood and a selection of the Anglo-Saxon laws.

Tamás KARÁTH

Comenius University, Bratislava and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest

Tamás Karáth’s research has focused on late medieval English religious writing, authority and heterodoxy in late medieval England, mystery plays, Richard Rolle and his medieval reception in translations. He is the author of Richard Rolle: The Fifteenth-Century Translations (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) and editor and co-author of the medieval volume of the new Hungarian History of English Literature (Budapest: Kjárat, 2020). He is currently engaged in a research project on the discourse of universal salvation in late medieval England. He is a founding member of the international collaboration „Research Days in Medieval English Studies”, with Alessandra Petrina (Padua), Denis Renevey (Lausanne) and Christiania Whitehead (Lausanne). He is a member of the editorial board of the Brepols Medieval Translator Series. He has translated modern and contemporary British and American fiction (Richard Yates and Julian Barnes), as well as novels of Jules Verne into Hungarian. He is a devoted cellist.

Thijs Porck

Leiden University

Thijs Porck is Senior University Lecturer (Associate Professor) of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands, He has published on Old English language and literature, cultural history of early medieval England, English historical linguistics and medievalism (esp. Tolkien). He is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) and PI of the ERC-project „Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe” (EMERGENCE)