"John Butler received an MA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and has taught at various universities in Canada, Japan, and Nigeria. He has written biographies of Richard Cromwell and Lord Herbert of Chirbury, and edited a number of seventeenth-century texts, including Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels in Africa, Persia and Asia the Great (2012) and Sir Paul Rycaut's Present State of the Ottoman Empire (2017). He has also co-edited (with Sue Matheson) two collections, The Fictional North (2012) and Horizons North (2013). A former Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar at the University College of the North, Canada, Dr Butler retired in 2015.".