JULIAN BARNES Independent scholar and author LAURA COLOMBINO Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Genoa, Italy RICHARD HIBBITT Senior Lecturer in French, University of Leeds, UK HERMIONE LEE President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK CAROLINE PATEY Professor of English Literature, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy PATRICK POLLARD Emeritus Professor of French, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DAVID ROE Independent scholar DAVID STEEL Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK