Michael Payne is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University, USA. He is general editor for The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory and author of Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva (1993), Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser (1997), Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (with John Hunter, 2003), and The Greenblatt Reader (with Stephen Greenblatt, 2005) all published by Wiley-Blackwell.
