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Alison Booth (booth@virginia.edu) is Professor of English and Academic Director of the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia. Her most recent book is Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries (2016). She directs the Collective Biographies of Women digital project, based on the bibliography in her book, How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004).

Janet Browne (jbrowne@fas.harvard.edu) is Aramont Professor of the History of Science in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is author of a two-volume biography of Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2003). More recently she has coedited John Tyndall's Correspondence, volume two with Melinda Baldwin (2016) and volume six with Michael Barton, Ken Corbett, and Norma McMillan (2019).

Adelene Buckland (adelene.buckland@kcl.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King's College, London, author of Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology (2013), and is currently working on a monograph entitled "Baby Machines: Mothers and Love in the Electromechanical Age."

Laura Ciolkowski (lciolkowski@umass.edu) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachussetts-Amherst. Her work on nineteenth-century literature and culture, gender-based violence, and critical prison studies has been published in Twentieth Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, and Victorian Literature and Culture, among other places. Her "Rape Culture Syllabus," published in Public Books, was widely shared and circulated by scholars and activists across the country.

Michael de Nie (mdenie@westga.edu) is Professor of History at the University of West Georgia. His publications include The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798–1882 (2004) and (with Tim McMahon and Paul Townend) Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (2016).

Andrew Griffiths (A.Griffiths@open.ac.uk) lectures in English at the Open University. His research concerns popular print culture and empire in the nineteenth century and he is the author of The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870–1900 (2015).

Melissa Shields Jenkins (jenkinms@wfu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University. She has published writing in a number of journals and edited collections, including Children's Literature Association Quarterly and the Yearbook of English Studies. Her new book project is called "Place and Power in Children's Literature."

Amy M. King (kinga@stjohns.edu) is Professor of English at St. John's University, and the author of The Divine in the Commonplace: Reverent Natural History and the Novel in Britain (2019) and Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (2003). She is currently working on a monograph about nineteenth-century botanical illustrations of Jamaica and Cuba, and a second project about provincial televisual narrative.

Carol Hanbery MacKay (mackay@austin.utexas.edu) is the J. R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches courses on the Victorian novel, autobiography and life-writing, and Women's and Gender Studies. Her publications include Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1986) and Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest (2001), as well as the edited collection Dramatic Dickens (1989) and two critical editions, The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1988) and Annie Besant's Autobiographical Sketches (2009).

Nancy Rose Marshall (nrmarshall@wisc.edu) teaches modern art and Victorian visual culture in the art history department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has recently edited a forthcoming volume of art history essays entitled "Victorian Science and Imagery: The Evolution of Form in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" for the University of Pittsburgh Press's "Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century" series.

Emma Mason (emma.mason@warwick.ac.uk) is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She has written widely on religion and poetry...

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