Richard Cole was the sometime Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor of English at Davidson College, North Carolina, retiring in 1993.

Cole received his diploma from Hamilton College in 1950 with honors in history and philosophy. He went on to Yale University, where he obtained his M.A. degree in English in 1951. After a short stint teaching at Manlius School, near Syracuse, NY, he returned to graduate study at Yale and earned his Ph.D. in 1955. Following his graduation, he was an instructor in English at the University of Texas in Austin, and then an associate professor of Radford College (now University) in Virginia, where he was promoted to full professor. In 1961, he began his long tenure as a full professor at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Cole was the elder son of Horace R. Cole, a postal supervisor, and Iris V. Cargill. He was married for over 50 years to Florence A. Mason (d. 2009).

Peter S. Baker is a Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He got his B.A. from Columbia in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1978. He has also been an associate professor of English at Towson State University in Maryland, USA.

Baker is best known as the author of Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn (1995) and The Beowulf Reader (2000)

Alexander Fraser was the son of Alexander Fraser (ca. 1700-1775), 7th of Strichen,1  and Anne Campbell (1692-1736). In 1764 he married Jean Menzies with whom he had at least nine children.

Fraser was granted the lands of Strichen, Aberdeenshire, in 1759, during his father's own lifetime. He was also the grandfather of Thomas Fraser (1802-1875), who in 1854 became the 12th Lord Lovat, following the reversal of the attainder of the 11th Lord, who was executed in 1747 following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.

• 1The older Fraser was a longtime judge of the Court of Session (1730-1775), styled Lord Strichen.

Charles Fifer was born in 1922 in Evanston, Illinois. He was educated at New Trier High School, Northwestern University, and Yale University, where he wrote his PhD dissertation on the correspondence of James Boswell.

During World War II he served with the 34th Infantry Division in Italy and France. In 1955 he married Norma Crow, a fellow English teacher who later taught for many years at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, CA.

Charles taught at Iowa State, Lawrence University, the University of Illinois, and at Stanford from 1956 until his retirement in 1991. In addition to teaching courses in 18th-century literature, which he once described as "one of the less inhabited periods," he was for many years the Director of Freshman English, a program that served the whole university by ensuring that every undergraduate had competent writing skills.
 

Thomas Crawford was a key figure in the recent history of Scottish literary studies. He was educated at Dunfermline High School and Edinburgh University, before taking on his first long-term teaching post in the English department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He returned to Scotland in 1965 to take up a post at Aberdeen University, where he remained until his retirement in 1985.

Walker held lectureships or chairs at several universities, including Aberdeen and Yale, before, in 1955, he was elected to the Molton Chair of English at McGill University, from where he retired in 1970 as Professor Emeritus.

He was described, in an obituary in St Catharine's College Society Magazine, as "a quiet, gentle and courteous man, yet formidable as both scholar and administrator".1

• 1 https://www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk/Public_Magazines/1990r.pdf

Elizabeth Goldring currently holds the title of Honorary Reader at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick.

She is best known for authoring Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (2019), which won the Apollo 'Book of the Year' Award, and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (2014), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History. 

Goldring is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Bruce Redford is currently Professor Emeritus in Baroque & 18th Century Art at Boston University.

Redford took a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University (1971-1975) and a B.A. in Medieval Studies from King's College, Cambridge (1975-1977), before going on to Princeton for a PhD in English Literature (1977-1981). He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he taught English for 17 years, the last eight of them as a full professor. In 1998 he moved to Boston University, as a University Professor and Professor of English. In 2003 he was also appointed Professor of Art History, and he has served in a variety of other administrative appointments during his time at Boston.

One of Redford's primary fields of interest has been the works of Samuel Johnson, and he has served on the editorial committee of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson since 1985. Most significantly, he edited the 5-volume Letters of Samuel Johnson (1992-1994) for Princeton and Clarendon Press.