Ian Johnson is Professor of Medieval Literature and Head of the School of English at the University of St Andrews. The author of The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation and Vernacular Theology (2013), he edited Geoffrey Chaucer in Context, (Cambridge University Press, 2019), recognised as a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and, with Alastair Minnis, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, ii, The Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2005).