Glenda Norquay is Director of the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research focuses on two areas: Scottish writing, specifically women's fiction, the nineteenth-century and contemporary novel; and Robert Louis Stevenson's fiction, criticism and publishing history. Norquay completed a Ph.D. thesis on Calvinism and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has also researched the work of Robin Jenkins and Muriel Spark.