Deborah Lutz, the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair at the University of Louisville, is the author of five books, including Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and their Materials (Oxford UP, 2023); The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (Norton, 2015); and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2015). She … Continue reading Deborah Lutz

Sana Abdi is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Connecticut College. She earned her Ph.D. in French from the University of Virginia. Her current book project Arabic at the heart of French: Linguistic and Literary Expressions considers the ways in which Arabic, textually and intertextually, permeates the French verse in North African … Continue reading Sana Abdi

Lorenzo Servitje is associate professor of literature and medicine, with a dual appointment in the Department of English and the Health, Medicine, and Society program at Lehigh University which he currently directs. He holds a PhD in English from the University of California Riverside and a Master in Public Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of … Continue reading Lorenzo Servitje

Pamela Gilbert is the Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida. Her most recent book, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History, focuses on the history of the body, medicine, and realism in the nineteenth century, with special attention to skin and surface. She has written several works related to the history of the … Continue reading Pamela Gilbert

Efram Sera-Shriar is an historical anthropologist who specialises in Victorian science. He is an Associate Professor in English studies at the University of Copenhagen, where he teaches the history and culture of the English-speaking world. Dr. Sera-Shriar has authored The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871 from 2013, and his recent 2022 monograph, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, … Continue reading Efram Sera-Shriar

Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and Guggenheim Fellow, is the author or editor of nine books, including The Making of Jane Austen and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Her essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Salon, Slate, TLS, Entertainment Weekly, and the Washington Post, and she’s played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen. Looser’s next book, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing … Continue reading Devoney Looser