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Stephanie Barczewski (sbarcze@clemson.edu) is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities at Clemson University. Her latest book is Heroic Failure and the British, published by Yale University Press in 2016.

Amy Billone (abillone@utk.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture (2016) and Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (2007). She has published numerous articles on gender and sexuality in the fields of nineteenth-century poetry and in children's literature.

Deirdre d'Albertis (dalberti@bard.edu) is the author of Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (1997) and numerous essays on nineteenth-century women writers such as George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Howitt, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Fredrika Bremer. She is Dean of the College and Professor of English at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Maneesha Deckha (mdeckha@uvic.ca) is Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include feminist animal studies, animal law and legalities, and law and culture. She is the author of Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders (2020) recently published by the University of Toronto Press. She serves as the Director of the Animal Studies Research Initiative at the University of Victoria and is a Brooks Animal Studies Academic Network Fellow. She is presently working on a monograph about the rule of law and animal vulnerability in farming.

Dennis Denisoff (dennis-denisoff@utulsa.edu) is McFarlin Chair of English, University of Tulsa. He is the author of Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940 (2001) and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850–1950 (2004). Recent publications include the edition Arthur Machen: Decadent and Occult Works (2018), The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature (2020) coedited with Talia Schaffer, and a forthcoming, guest-edited issue of Victorian Literature and Culture entitled "Scales of Decadence."

Eric Dursteler (ericd@byu.edu) is Professor of History at Brigham Young University. His publications include Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2006), Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2011), and, with Monique O'Connell, The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon (2016). He is currently completing a book on Mediterranean foodways.

Rebecca Earle (r.earle@warwick.ac.uk) teaches history at the University of Warwick. She has written about clothing, love letters, riots in eighteenth-century Colombia, and, especially, food. Her most recent publication is Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (2020).

William Lee Hughes (wlhughes@ucdavis.edu) is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of California, Davis. In addition to essays in Conradiana and Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, he recently published "Impersonal Grief: Charles Dickens and Serial Forms of Affect" in differences.

Bruce Kinzer (kinzerb@kenyon.edu) is Emeritus Professor of History at Kenyon College. He has written a few books on J. S. Mill and coedited Mill's Public and Parliamentary Speeches, vols. 2829 (1988) of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols. (1963–91).

Andrea Korda (korda@ualberta.ca) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869–1891 (2015), and has published articles in the Journal of Victorian Culture, Word & Image, Paedagogica Historica, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.

Deanna K. Kreisel (deekaykay@icloud.com) is the author of Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (2012). She has published essays on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA, ELH, Representations, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel, and elsewhere, including essays on Victorian higher-dimensional geometry in Victorian Studies and BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. She is currently working on a book project on utopia and sustainability in Victorian culture.

Sharon Marcus (sm2247@columbia.edu) is the...

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