Claude Rawson is the Maynard Mack Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He was the President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1973 and 1974, and once was the President of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism. He is General Editor of The Blackwell Critical Biographies (twenty-one volumes to date), The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (six volumes to date) and The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (nine volumes). He has published widely on authors including Swift, Pope and Fielding, and on topics including the history of satire, and the development of mock heroic from Milton to T. S. Eliot. Among his books, God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 (Oxford, 2001) was translated into Chinese by Songlin Wang.