Jakub Lipski is University Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Before obtaining his PhD in English Literature, he had studied English, Cultural Studies and Art History. He is the author of Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade (2024), Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception (2021), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014). His research interests include eighteenth-century English fiction and culture, word and image crossovers, as well as reception and adaptation studies. M-C. Newbould is currently Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, after having taught and researched at the University of Cambridge for many years. She specialises in eighteenth-century literature and visual culture, with a particular interest in Laurence Sterne, and in literary afterlives. Her monograph on Sternean adaptations appeared in 2013; she co-edited (with W. B. Gerard) an essay collection on Sterne's A Sentimental Journey in 2021, and with Helen Williams 'Laurence Sterne and Sterneana', an Open Access dataset hosted by Cambridge Digital Library (2022). She is an editor of international Sterne journal The Shandean.