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Nora C. Benedict is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia. Her research centers on twentieth-century Latin American literature, book history, and questions of access and maintenance surrounding both digital and print cultures. She is author of Borges and the Literary Marketplace (Yale, 2021) and is co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges with Daniel Balderston.

Mila Daskalova is a final year PhD student at the University of Strathclyde. Her AHRC-funded doctoral project adopts a book-historical approach to trace the origins, production, and dissemination of periodicals published in nineteenth-century asylums and to examine the therapeutic use of letterpress printing in Britain and America. Her research interests lie in nineteenth-century print production, literature, and periodical studies and the intersections between medical and literary publishing. She holds the G.P. Johnston Prize in Scottish Book History and Bibliography (2019).

John J. Garcia is Assistant Professor in English at Florida State University. He specializes in the history of the book in America from the colonial era to about 1900. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the Rare Book School, where is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.

Anne Garner is a doctoral student at Drew University. Previously, she was Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at The New York Academy of Medicine, and Librarian in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Prior publications include articles in American Libraries and RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage.

Alexa Hazel studied political and social thought and English as a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia. She completed an MSt in World Literatures in English at Exeter College, the University of Oxford, under a Prince Sultan studentship and titular Clarendon Scholarship. She is currently a doctoral student in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University.

Carrie N. Knight is currently a PhD candidate at University of Rochester. Her work focuses on the long nineteenth-century in America with particular emphasis on health, culture, and gender. She is currently completing a dissertation on the gendered history of American Individualism. Ms. Knight serves on the staff of the Seward Family Digital Archive (www.sewardproject.org), where she connects community volunteers and project staff in shared learning opportunities. Ms. Knight has worked in public history for over twenty years.

Kelly Minot McCay is a PhD candidate in History at Harvard University. She holds a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from Princeton University and an MPhil in Early Modern History from St John's College, Cambridge. McCay studies the history of linguistic thought and is currently beginning her doctoral dissertation on innovative writing systems in early modern England, including shorthand, spelling reform programs, ciphers, and universal characters.

Ritika Prasad is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2015). She is currently working on a project analyzing the relationship between the press, the colonial and postcolonial state, and a broader public as it has developed in India over two centuries. Her most recent work has appeared in Modern Asia Studies.

Millicent Weber is a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. Her books include the monograph Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and essay collections Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy (Monash, 2019) and Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives (Monash, 2017).

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