Stephen Thomas Knight MA PhD. F.A.H.A., F.E.A. was until September 2011 Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University in the School of English, Communications and Philosophy. He is now, in retirement, Honorary Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communication. His areas of expertise include English literature, Medieval literature, Cultural studies, Crime fiction, Robin Hood and Australian matters. He has published a large number of books that have addressed these issues, and is best known in the public sphere for his contributions to modern-day debate on the legend of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and on medieval cultural studies. In his most recent work, Mysteries of the Cities, Knight describes and analyses the massive criminal narratives that from the 1840s onwards captured the complexities and anxieties of the new mercantile metropolis, from Paris and London through to Philadelphia, New York and Melbourne. 

September 21st, 1940 in (Age 84)