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David Jasper is Professor Emeritus of the University of Glasgow where he was formerly Professor of Theology and Literature. He is also an honorary professor of the University of Edinburgh and has been an Anglican priest for almost fifty years. He was Canon Theologian of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. David has taught in universities in China, Australia and the USA. David was a founder of the Conference on Literature and Religion at Durham University in 1980. Since then, a series of international meetings have been organised every other year by the organisation, providing a forum for the inter-disciplinary study of literature and theology in contemporary Europe.
Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She has written widely on Christian poetry, and her publications include Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Elizabeth Jennings: The Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2012). Her research and teaching are focused on Catholic contemplation/mysticism, Christian literature and ecology, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies.
Antonio Spadaro S.J. is the Undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education. In 1998 he joined the community of the Jesuits’ biweekly review La Civiltà Cattolica, of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2011, He received a Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon. Father Spadaro has published about 30 volumes on theology in dialogue with contemporary culture. He is the author of the first interview with Pope Francis which had international circulation (2013). He follows Francis in his apostolic trips as a member of the Papal entourage.
