Patrick Cheney is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He has authored and edited several books on Renaissance English literature, including the forthcoming Shakespeare's Literary Authorship: Books, Poetry, and Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright (Cambridge University press, 2004). For the Spenser Project, Cheney is editing The Shephearde's Calender, Daphnaida, Colin Clouts Come Home Again, and Prothalamion.

Elizabeth Fowler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the co-editor of The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (with Roland Greene; Cambridge University Press, 1997) and author of Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing (Cornell University Press, 2003), which received an honorable mention for the 2005 MacCaffrey medal from the International Spenser Society. She is editing the secretarial correspondence and Two Cantos of Mutabilitie for the Spenser Project.

Joseph Loewenstein is Professor of English and directs the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. A student of Early Modern print culture, he has published The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright (Chicago, 2002) and Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship (Cambridge, 2002). He has also edited The Staple of News for the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Works of Ben Jonson. For the Spenser Project, he is editing A Theatre for Voluptuous Worldlings, the Spenser-Harvey correspondence, Complaints, and The Faerie Queene, Books 4-6 (1596).

David Lee Miller directs project activities at the University of South Carolina, where he is Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness (Cornell University Press, 2003) and The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton University Press, 1988). He is editing The Faerie Queene Books 1-3 (1590), Amoretti and Epithalamion, Fowre Hymnes, and miscellaneous poems.

Gordon Braden, author of Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (Yale University Press, 1999) and The Idea of the Renaissance (with William Kerrigan; Johns Hopkins, 1989) is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of Axiochus for this edition.

Christopher Burlinson is Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. In addition to co-editing the diplomatic letters, he is also working on a book, Allegory, Space and the Material World (Boydell and Brewer) with Andrew Zurcher.

Nicholas Canny, Professor of History at University College-Galway, is co-editor of A Viewe of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland. Professor Canny is a specialist in Early Modern English colonial practice in Ireland, and the author of two books and many articles on this subject.

Andrew Zurcher is the glossator for the project. Dr. Zurcher is Fellow in English at Queens' College, Cambridge, and co-director of the AHRC-funded manuscript-digitization project, Scriptorium. He works primarily on linguistic and legal topics in the study of Spenser and Shakespeare, and is the author of several articles on Spenser, most recently "Printing the Faerie Queene in 1590 (Studies in Bibliography 57, 2005-06).

Ruffin Bailey, a graduate student at North Carolina State University, provides programming support and server administration to the Spenser Archive.

Erin Davis is Curator of Rare Books at Washington University in St. Louis, where she frequently advises the project on matters of policy and physical bibliography.

Aaron Drake is a programmer/web developer in Arts & Sciences Computing at Washington University. He is responsible for the programming and database design for the online finding aid.

Amanda Gailey, Associate Director of the Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St Louis, is the Project Manager of the Spenser Archive. Her doctorate (University of Nebraska) is in American Literature and Digital Texts: Theory and Practice.

Helen Cooper, Professor of English, Cambridge University, England

Patricia Coughlan, Associate Professor of English, University College - Cork, Ireland

David Gants, Canada Research Professor of English, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex, England

A. C. Hamilton, Professor Emeritus of English, Queen's University, Canada

David Scott Kastan, Professor of English, Columbia University, US

Richard McCabe, Professor of English, Oxford University, England

Anne Lake Prescott, Professor of English, Barnard College, US