Jonathan Locke Hart received his PhD in English from the University of Toronto and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and member of Academia Europea. He is also senior fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto; associate at Harvard University Herbaria; life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; senior fellow of Abigail Adams Institute; and Adjunct Professor of Amity School of Languages, Amity University Jaipur. In recent years, he was core faculty of comparative literature at Western University; Chair Professor of the School of Foreign Languages; Director at the Centre for Creative Writing, Literary Culture and Translation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chair Professor of the School of Translation Studies; and Director of the International Cooperation Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities, Shandong University. He has written over thirty books, edited other books and contributed book chapters. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard, and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over a hundred articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking University and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.