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

Ryan D. Fong is an associate professor of English at Kalamazoo College, teaching courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures and in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program. He is finishing a book manuscript titled Unsettling: Indigenous Literatures and the Work of Victorian Studies, which is under contract with SUNY Press. Work from this project has … Continue reading Ryan Fong

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

Em Nordling is a PhD student in English at Emory University and Research Data Associate at Sounding Spirit Research Lab. Their scholarly interests include crowds, collective affect, and digital humanities. Their past work picked up these themes from numerous perspectives—from digital archives, to creative writing, to on-the-ground activist and social justice research support. Now, as … Continue reading Em Nordling

David Ogawa is Associate Professor of Art History at Union College in Schenectady, New York. His background is in nineteenth-century European painting, and his research has expanded to include the relationship between these practices, the introduction of photography, and the formation of photo archives. He has published on Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, and Parisian photographic … Continue reading David Ogawa

Riya Das is Assistant Professor of English (British/World Literature) at Prairie View A&M University, a public Historically Black University in Prairie View, Texas. Riya completed her PhD at Binghamton University, SUNY. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature with an interest in gender, empire, and narrative form. Her work has appeared in Texas Studies in Literature … Continue reading Riya Das