Jeremy Tambling was formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University and before that, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

He is author of several books, three of them on Dickens: Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold(Macmillan 1995), Going Astray: Dickens and London (Longman, 2008), and Dickens' Novels as Poetry: Allegory and the Literature of the City (Routledge 2014). He edited David Copperfield for Penguin (2004) and has written numerous articles on early modern and nineteenth century literature, and critical and cultural theory. His most recent book was Histories of the Devil: Marlowe to Mann, and the Manichees (Macmillan, 2017).