Steven Matthews (Afterword by)
Steven Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Modernist Studies, and Co-Director of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, at the University of Reading, UK. His books include Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation (1997); Yeats as Precursor (2000); Les Murray (2001), and Modernism: A Sourcebook (2008). T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature appeared in 2013, and Ceaseless Music, a critical-creative reflection on Wordsworth’s The Prelude, in 2017. His edition of Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes, with Matthew Feldman, was published in 2020, and the edited The Waste Land after One Hundred Years in 2022. He has published three poetry collections: Skying (2012), On Magnetism (2017), and Some Other Where (2023).


Matthew Feldman (Author)
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes include Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe (Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century (Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collection Fascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2003). More recent volumes include Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945 (with Paul Jackson, 2014), The ‘New Man’ in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919–1945 (with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph, Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945, appeared with Palgrave in 2013. He has published two collections of essays with Ibidem Press, Falsifying Beckett (2015) and Politics, Intellectuals, and Faith (2020).


Kate Yanduganova (Edited by)
Kate Yanduganova is an editor and translator, liaising between German, English, and Russian. Among scholarly interests are twentieth-century European Jewish philosophy and midrash, as well as the history of antisemitism.