Adam is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Harvard University. He specializes in English Romanticism and has broad interests across English and American literary movements. He is currently at work on a dissertation that offers a re-evaluation and reinterpretation of Wordsworth’s lyric poetry. He enjoys talking about English poetry with friends and, with his wife deryn, regularly hosts poetry events at his home in Cambridge, Mass.

Catherine is a PhD candidate in English Literature. She focuses on twentieth century literature, and is currently writing about connections between World War I literature and the Gothic tradition. Beyond these specific interests, Catherine enjoys reading a wide range of authors and has presented on Dickens, Hemingway, Eliot, David Jones, T.S. Eliot, D.W. Griffith and Abel Gance. She is also involved as an editor in a long-term digital humanities project with the David Jones Center and Cambridge University Digital Library to transcribe and encode David Jones' entire archive for public use.

Robin has a PhD in historical theology from Boston College and serves as assistant teaching professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland. She writes on medieval mysticism, moral theory, hermeneutics, and genre studies. A native Tucsonan in love with the northern east coast and climate, she enjoys spending leisure time on strolls near bodies of water.

Kara earned her PhD in early modern literature and culture from Tufts University. Her work focuses on witchcraft and the occult with a particular emphasis on ways of knowing. Her current book project examines how knowledge and belief intersect with withchcraft on the early modern English stage. Her other research interests include theories of disgust, the female body and sexuality, and history of the book. When she is not decoding early modern spells, Kara loves reading everything from twentieth-century British and American poetry to the latest bestseller.