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Contributors
Micah Bateman is an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa, where he is working on a book, Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. His other essays on the intersection of poetry, politics, and online platforms are forthcoming in Expressive Networks: Poetry & Platform Cultures and The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman.
Joshua Ehrlich is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Macau. He received his PhD and MA from Harvard University. Ehrlich's first book, The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (Cam-bridge, 2023) examines knowledge and political thought in South and Southeast Asia.
Ruth Panofsky, FRSC, is Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Her current project is a SSHRC-funded study of publisher Anna Porter and Key Porter Books.
Sara Pennell is currently Associate Professor of Early Modern British History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich (UK). She has published extensively on food and recipes, kitchens, and domestic material culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and she is now working on a book-length study of Hannah Wolley.
Nicole Reynolds is Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio University. She is the author of Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Michigan, 2010). Her research has been published in such journals as Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. She is currently developing a critical edition of Phebe Gibbes's Friendship in a Nunnery; or, The American Fugitive (1778) as well as a project on Edmund Blunden, twentieth-century antiquarian book collecting, and the development of Romanticism as an academic field.
Marie Stango is Assistant Professor of History at Idaho State University. She is working on her first book, Second Black Republic: Freedom and Family in the Making of Liberia.
Nicola Wilson is Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies at the University of Reading, UK, and co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP). She is author of Home in British Working-Class Fiction (2015), co-author of Scholarly Adventures in the Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project, and lead editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020 (2024). She is currently finishing a monograph on the Book Society, Highly Recommended: The Writers Who Changed How We Read.
Madeline Zehnder received her PhD in English from the University of Virginia and is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she is a member of the DFG-supported research group, "The Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms." Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including American Literature, American Literary History, New Literary History, and Studies in Bibliography, as well as online. She is currently working on her first book, provisionally titled Made to Move: Pocket-Sized Books and the Management of Nineteenth-Century America.