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Sarah Covington is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College/The City University of New York, and author of The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

Melissa Free is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works on the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and has articles forthcoming in Texas Studies in Literature and Language and Victorian Freaks: The Social Work of Freakery in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Marlene Tromp.

Ellen Gruber Garvey is Associate Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s and worked with Sharon Harris on Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals. She is currently writing a book titled Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake Print Culture, on how nineteenth-century Americans used their reading in making scrapbooks. [End Page 313]

Emma Jay completed her doctoral dissertation, "Caroline, Queen Consort of George II, and British Literary Culture," at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, in 2004. In 2004–05 she was the James M. Osborn Post-Doctoral Associate at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. She is currently working on a book about literature, politics, and the British monarchy in the eighteenth century. She teaches English part-time at Kingston University, London.

Ronald Jenn completed his doctoral dissertation, "The Translation of Child Rhetoric in Twain's Novels," in 2004 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies in University Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, France. He has published articles on French translations of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in journals such as Palimpsestes and in the European issue of Revue Française d'Études Américaines. He is now preparing a study on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Bernadette A. Lear is Behavioral Sciences and Education Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University's Harrisburg campus. She has worked in academic and public libraries for more than ten years and earned her Master's degree in Library Service from Rutgers University in 1999. Her scholarly interests include U.S. educational history, science and technology during the Gilded Age, print culture and communities, the history of American libraries and librarianship, and the history of the Mid-Atlantic region. "Book History in Scarlet Letters" is her first scholarly publication.

Jeff Loveland is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of the book Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context and is currently doing research on eighteenth-century encyclopedias in France and Britain.

David S. Miall is professor of English at the University of Alberta. Previous publications include, as editor, Humanities and the Computer: New Directions (1990) and Romanticism: The CD-ROM (1997). He specializes in literature of the British Romantic period, but his research interests also include the empirical study of literary reading (a field in which he has collaborated with Don Kuiken since 1990) and the role of computers in literature. His monograph, Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies, will be published in 2007.

Emily Oswald is an undergraduate at Loyola College in Maryland, where she will finish her bachelor's degree in English literature in May 2006. [End Page 314] She plans to continue her investigation of the intersection of race and photography through research in the photographic collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels, Belgium.

Michelle Denise Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Alberta. "Soup Cans and Love Slaves" is derived from her Master's thesis, "Criminal Tales as Cultural Trade." Her Ph.D. research focuses on Canadian women's mass-market magazines and the construction of national identity. She is also the site curator for Canadian Magazines, a web site devoted to collecting and displaying Canada's popular periodicals.

Andie Tucher is Assistant Professor and Director of the Communications Ph.D. Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former journalist, she is the author of Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty...

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