Mark Knight is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto (and, from January 2016, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University). He has a long history of working in religion and literature, having completed his PhD in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London in 1999 and then worked in the Department of English at Roehampton University for ten years before his move to Toronto. Mark’s books include Chesterton and Evil (2004), Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature (2006, with Emma Mason), and An Introduction to Religion and Literature (2009). He has also co-edited two collections of essays on religion and literature (2006, 2009) and Literature and the Bible: A Reader (2013), and is the sole editor of The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion (forthcoming April 2016). His new book project, Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel, is close to completion, and he has published widely in journals such as Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Dickens Studies Annual, and English Literature in Transition 1880-1920. Mark is on the editorial board of the journal Literature and Theology, and, with Emma Mason, he edits the “New Directions in Religion and Literature” monograph series for Bloomsbury.