Robert Cummings is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is co-editor of Volume Two of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, with Gordon Braden and Stuart Gillespie (Oxford University Press, 2010) and, with Stuart Gillespie, has edited the journal Translation and Literature since its inception in 1992. His translation of George Herbert’s Latin poems won the British Comparative Literature Association/ British Centre for Literary Translation Prize for 2002. He has published on a number of translation-related topics.