Rob Hardy is an honorary professor at Henan Normal University, China. He is the son of an American mother and English father. His publications include a chapter in a Palgrave Macmillan collection titled
Iris Murdoch and Morality and two books – one on psychological and religious narratives in Iris Murdoch’s fiction, the other a study of the feminine divine in the work of D.H. Lawrence, Dion Fortune and Ted Hughes. He has also published articles on Iris Murdoch, Paul Bailey, the English social worker novelist John Stroud, as well as on versions of China produced by Charles Dickens and Ezra Pound.