Martin Procházka is Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of Romanticism and Personality (1996), Transversals (2008), and Ruins in the New World (2012), a co-author of Romanticism and Romanticisms (2005), an editor of 17 collaborative books including Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances (2014), and the founding editor of an academic journal Litteraria Pragensia (Scopus). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Byron Societies, Visiting Professor at the University of Porto, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Kent.