About the Organisers
Dr Rob Hawkes is Senior Lecturer in English at Teesside University, UK. He has taught previously at Leeds Trinity University (2010-2013), the University of East Anglia (2009-2010), and the University of York (2005-2009). He is the author of Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); and co-editor of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: The First World War, Culture, and Modernity (Rodopi, 2014), War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, Modernism, and Psychology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), and An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford (Ashgate, 2015). Rob is the Ford Madox Ford Society’s Publicity and Website Officer. Follow Rob on Twitter: @robbhawkes.
Dr Ashley Chantler is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK. He is the Series Editor of Character Studies (Continuum); author of ‘Heart of Darkness’: Character Studies (Continuum, 2008); co-editor of Translation Practices: Through Language to Culture (Rodopi, 2009), Studying English Literature (Continuum, 2010), Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900 (Ashgate, 2011), Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: The First World War, Culture, and Modernity (Rodopi, 2014), War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, Modernism, and Psychology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), and An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford (Ashgate, 2015). From 2007-2014, Ashley edited the Ford Madox Ford Society Newsletter. Follow Ashley on Twitter: @AshChantler