Carlos A. González (they/them) is a PhD candidate in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University. They specialize in Weird and horror fiction in Spanish and French. They have published and taught on Latin American women’s neo-gothic, Old French monster narratives, and Queer and Crip criticism across disciplines. They live in Cambridge with their wife, shih tzu, and the creature that lives under their bed.

Abigail Rawleigh earned a PhD candidate early American literature at the University of Notre Dame. Her research explores the intersection of religion and literature in the early modern British Atlantic. Her current book project looks at domestic language, themes, and the real spaces to which they correspond in seventeenth-century religious poetry. When she’s not reading, writing, or teaching, Abigail can usually be found baking, learning a new skill (right now it’s crochet), or enjoying time outdoors.

Joshua Rawleigh is a PhD candidate in English literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his BA in History from Gordon College and his MSt by Research in Victorian Literature from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the roles that literary form, religious contexts, and the past play in shaping British literature during the long nineteenth century. His doctoral dissertation focuses on prophecy as a mode of address in the long nineteenth century that enables the discovery of otherwise inaccessible social visions. Recent work has appeared in The Journal of Scottish and Irish Studies and is forthcoming in the edited collection Through the Looking-Glass: A Companion.

Andrew Koenig is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard, where he is the Lead Coordinator of the Graduate Colloquia, co-manager of the Child Memorial Library, and associate editor of Harvard Review. His essays and reviews have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Haven Independent, The New Criterion, and elsewhere. Outside of Harvard, he has lectured and taught for the Antrim Literature Project and for Beacon Hill Books in Boston.

Cynthia Schmidt is currently a PhD candidate in English at St. John’s University, following her MFA in Writing, concentrated in Speculative Fiction, from Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught at several institutions as a professor of writing and literature, as well as a workshop facilitator both affiliated and independently; in addition to her job teaching, Cynthia is also committed to her full-time studies at St. John's, where her research is primarily in folklore studies, with an emphasis on modern feminist retellings of myth and fairytale in modern media. Cynthia's dissertation-in-progress centers around matriarchal mythopoetic narratives in transmedial modalities, and her dream is to guide students to becoming the best version of themselves through the exploration of literature and the practice of writing. She is currently working on her debut novel.

Holly Wiegand (she/her) is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and doctoral candidate in English at Boston University. Her dissertation project, “Bold Devotion: Female Religious Authority and Transatlantic 19th-Century Fiction,” takes up intersections of gender, religion, and reform in analyzing representations of devout Protestant women’s public religious authority in British and American cultures. Her graduate work has been supported by the BU Center of the Humanities. Portions of her research are forthcoming in Legacy, Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, and the edited collection Victorians and Videogames with Routledge. Holly has designed and taught courses in BU's English Department and Writing Program on subjects ranging from nineteenth-century novels to videogame adaptations of literature to Intro to Poetry survey.

Jordan Green is a PhD candidate at Tufts University studying English literature during the long eighteenth century. Her dissertation explores the curious figure of the obsessive character as a medical and literary "type" which offers insight into the ways we write and engage with fictional works.

Julia Rossi is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at the University of Chicago. Her research centers on nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with thematic focuses on economic history, labor history, and the built environment. Julia is passionate about extending access to the study of history, literature, and culture beyond the walls of the university. To that end, she has pursued public history projects with several museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions.

Margaret Schnabel is a PhD student in the Harvard English department. Among other things, Margaret studies contemporary poetry, humor, and queer/trans theory.

Nathan Motulsky is an MA student in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where his research primarily focuses on literature of the Americas in the long 18th century. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cleveland Review of Books, Full Stop, and elsewhere.

Stephanie Montalti earned an English PhD from St. John's University and works as an adjunct assistant professor at St. John’s University and Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. Her dissertation analyzes illustrations in British children’s literature of the Golden Age, with a focus on how they contribute to cross-writing (the process of addressing or appealing to children and adults). Her areas of specialization include children’s literature, nineteenth-century British literature, and childhood studies, with special interests in fantasy, fairy tales, postcolonial theory, writing studies, and book history. She received her Master’s in Liberal Studies, with a focus on English and Childhood Studies, from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her academic works can be found in St. John’s University’s Humanities Review, Dickens Studies Annual, CUNY Academic Works, and on the Children’s Literature Association’s Blog.