Ruth Parkin-Gounelas grew up in Wellington but has lived mostly in Greece. She studied English at Victoria University and Oxford University, and is now Emeritus Professor in the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She has published in the fields of 19th and 20th century literature, women's writing and literary theory. C.-Dimitris Gounelas has a BA in Russian from Victoria University of Wellington and a doctorate in Modern Greek from King's College London. He has taught at King's College London, Sydney University, Crete University and as Associate Professor in the Department of Greek Philology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Publications have been mostly in Greek - on literature, politics and the philosophy of language.