The Common Touch

Professor Paul A. Scanlon, educated in Canada, the United States and Ireland, taught English Literature at universities in Canada, the West Indies, Swaziland, Bahrain, Japan and Oman, holding chairs and deanships in several of them. His various books and articles focus on South African writing, Elizabethan prose fiction and the eighteenth-century novel, including editions of Moll Flanders and Joseph Andrews. He has recently published a historical novel entitled Memoirs of the German Princess, and is presently at work on another involving the thief-taker Jonathan Wild.

During a long international career, Adrian Roscoe held professorships of English in Oman, New Zealand, South Africa, Malawi, and a visiting professorship in British and African Literature at the State University of New York. His recent work includes The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English; Literacy, Literature and Identity and Focusing on EFL Reading: Theory and Practice (with Rahma Al-Mahrooqi); and, most recently, Methodologies for Effective Writing Instruction in EFL and ESL Classrooms (with Rahma Al-Mahrooqi and Vijay Singh Thakur).