Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is a co-editor of Journal of Marlowe Studies and of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and a series editor for Arden Critical Readers and Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. Her most recent publications include Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain, co-edited with Bill Angus, and her edition of John Ford's The Queen. She also writes about detective fiction; her book Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023.