Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, Robert Maslen has taught at Universities in Oxford, London and Exeter. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, where he teaches an MLitt in Creative Writing, and has been Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, NH, the University of St Thomas, MN, and the University of Lund, Sweden. He has published articles on science fiction and renaissance literature, two books, Shakespeare and Comedy and Elizabethan Fictions, and is the editor of Mervyn Peake: Collected Poems and, with Peter Winnington, Complete Nonsense (both published by Carcanet).