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Lee Behlman (behlmanl@montclair.edu) is a Professor of English at Montclair State University. He co-edited the collections Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) with Olivia Loksing Moy, and Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2016) with Anne Long-muir. He has published articles on Victorian light verse, motherhood, and nineteenth-century classicism in journals such as Victorian Poetry, Journal of Victorian Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.

Erik Gray (eg2155@columbia.edu) is a Professor of English at Columbia University, and is the author of The Poetry of Indifference (2005), Milton and the Victorians (2009), and The Art of Love Poetry (2018). He is currently co-editing a new anthology of Victorian poetry, forthcoming from Broadview Press.

Helen Groth (h.groth@unsw.edu.au) is a Professor of Literary Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (Oxford, 2003) and Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (Edinburgh, 2013), and co-author of a third monograph (with Natalya Lusty), Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (Routledge, 2013). She is the co-editor of a number of collections, including Writing the Global Riot: Literature in a Time of Crisis (Oxford, 2023) and The Edinburgh Companion of Literature and Sound Studies (Edinburgh, 2024).

Linda K. Hughes (L.Hughes@tcu.edu) is the Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, and specializes in historical media, gender and women’s studies, and transnationality, including transatlanticism. She most recently co-edited, with Phyllis Weliver, the special issue of Victorian Poetry focused on poetry and salon culture (60, no. 2, 2022). Her monograph Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (Cambridge, 2022) features ten progressive women writers’ active cultural exchanges with Germans and Germany and includes attention to poems by Anna Jameson, Mary Howitt, Michael Field, and Amy Levy. Linda is also coeditor, with Sarah R. Robbins and Andrew Taylor, of Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920: An Anthology (Edinburgh, 2022), organized around ten themes ranging from abolition and its aftermaths to suffrage and citizenship, and art, aesthetics, and entertainments. The anthology includes poetry along with manifestos, travel writing, fiction, essays, and numerous illustrations.

Charles LaPorte (laporte@uw.edu) is a Professor of English at the University of Washington. His publications include the monographs Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible (Virginia, 2011) and The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2021). He co-edits (with Lori Branch) the new Cambridge University Press series Elements in Literature and Religion since 1500. His research focuses upon the historical intersections of poetry and religion.

Michele Martinez (mcmartin@bu.edu) is a Senior Lecturer in Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between nineteenth-century poetry and visual culture and at present addresses imperial visuality in Cameron’s family photography. In 2012, she published Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Aurora Leigh”: A Reading Guide (Edinburgh). Her interdisciplinary work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, and Modern Language Studies, as well as the book collection Victorian Women Poets. Her essay on entrustment in Aurora Leigh and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels will appear in an essay collection on the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Simon Avery and Cora Kaplan.

Monique R. Morgan (mormorga@indiana.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, and an editor of the journal Victorian Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Romantic and Victorian literature, narrative theory, poetics, and literature and science. She is the author of Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British Long Poem (Ohio State, 2009), as well as recent essays in Victorian Studies, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry, and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. She is currently finishing a book project on narrative and epistemology in Victorian science fiction.

The late Lee O’Brien was an independent scholar, formerly a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Macquarie University, Sydney. She published journal articles on Emily...