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Adam Bradford is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches and researches nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of Communities of Death: Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning (2014).

Paul C. Jones is the Sam and Susan Crowl Professor of English at Ohio University. He is the author of Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (2005) and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2011), as well as numerous journal articles on nineteenth-century American literature. His current book project examines Poe's work through the lens of queer temporality.

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is the Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. In 2019, she received Holy Cross's Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award for her research on detective fiction, Nabokov, and Poe, as well as her sculpture and poetry. Beth is a past president of the Poe Studies Association; coeditor of Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism (1998); and author of several essays on Poe, including "The Horror of Taking a Picture in Poe's 'Tell-Tale Heart,'" which won the James W. Gargano Award in 2018. She is now working on Poe, ventriloquism, and early photography.

Brian Yothers is the Frances Spatz Leighton Endowed Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and a 2014 recipient of the UT Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. He is the author of Reading Abolition (2016), Sacred Uncertainty (2015), Melville's Mirrors (2011), and The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing (2007). He is also co-editor, with Jonathan Cook, of Visionary of the Word (2017); editor of Critical Insights volumes on The Scarlet Letter (2018) and Billy Budd, Sailor (2017); co-editor, with Harold K. Bush, of Above the American Renaissance (2018); and associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

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