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Lars Atkin is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent. They are codirector of the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies and coeditor of the Curran Index. Their most recent monograph, Writing the South African San: Colonial Ethnographic Discourses (Palgrave, 2021) examined the entanglement between literature and ethnography in nineteenth-century representations of South African Indigenous people. They are coinvestigator on the AHRC-funded "Victorian Diversities" network.

Stephen Basdeo, Senior Lecturer in History at the Elizabeth School, London, wrote the first biography of G. W. M. Reynolds, Victorian England's Best-Selling Author: The Revolutionary Life of G. W. M. Reynolds (2022), as well as biographies of Joseph Ritson and Wat Tyler. His current project, Mysteries of the People, Mysteries of the World, examines nineteenth-century "mysteries" from Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

Caroline Bressey is Professor of Historical Geography in the Department of Geography, University College London. Her research focuses upon the Black presence in Victorian England, especially London, alongside Victorian anti-racism communities and the links between contemporary identities and the diverse histories of London as represented in heritage sites and museums. She won the Colby Scholarly Book Prize for her first monograph, Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste (2013), which examined the anti-racist reading community established by Catherine Impey and Celestine Edwards. Her current research project maps the everyday of multiethnic working-class communities of Victorian England.

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her latest books are Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850 (2022) and Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (coedited with Sarah Comyn, 2021). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820–1890.

Ryan D. Fong is an Associate Professor of English at Kalamazoo College. He is completing his first monograph, Unsettling: Indigenous Literatures and the Work of Victorian Studies, which is under contract with SUNY Press. Ryan has published essays in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Nineteenth Century Gender Studies and is one of the founding organizers of the digital humanities project Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.

Jennifer Hayward is Professor of Literature at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) and Virginia Myers Professor of English and Global Media and Digital Studies at the College of Wooster (United States). Her publications include Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions (1997); new editions of Maria Graham's 1824 Journal of a Residence in Chile (2003) and Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (2011); and essays on the British periodical press in Chile. With Michelle Prain-Brice, she codirects Anglophone Chile, a digitization project that has received generous assistance from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant (2018) and the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library (2023).

Jenna M. Herdman completed her PhD at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) in 2023. Her research explores the intersection of midcentury Victorian print culture, book history, and the digital humanities, with a particular focus on digital scholarly editing of nineteenth-century print culture texts. Her work has been published in Victorian Periodicals Review, Book History, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. She works as a public servant for the federal government of Canada.

Brian Maidment is Emeritus Professor of the History of Print at Liverpool John Moores University. His most recent books are Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820–1850 (2013) and Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (2021). He is currently writing about cheap comic lithographs from the 1830s.

Matt Poland is a Lecturer at the University of Washington in Seattle and the assistant editor of MLQ: A Journal of Literary History. He writes and teaches about the global circulation and remediation of Victorian literature, settler colonialism, archives and the history of English studies, and anti-racist pedagogy. He has work forthcoming in Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and his writing has appeared in Journal of Victorian Culture, George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Studies, Review19, and elsewhere. He is also a contributing editor to At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.

Michelle Prain-Brice is Professor of Literature at Adolfo...