Simon Burrows (BA, D.Phil. Oxon.) is Professor of Modern European History at Leeds and director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print. He specialises in the history of French print culture and politics in the second half of the long eighteenth century. He has published three books on French refugee writers in London, French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814 (RHS, 2000); Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution: London's French Libellistes, 1758-1792 (Manchester, 2006); and A King's Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger and Master-Spy (London, 2010). He is a co-editor of three further works: Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820 (Cambridge, 2002) with Hannah Barker; The Chevalier d’Eon and his Worlds: Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2010) with Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and Valerie Mainz; and Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2010) with Ann Thomson and Edmond Dziembowski. Before coming to Leeds in 2000 he taught for seven years at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.