Dr. Jennifer Rich was Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University. Her research focused on feminist theory, rhetoric, pedagogy, and Shakespeare with teaching on courses in English, rhetoric, writing studies and women’s studies. Rich had a profound passion for teaching with a corresponding impact on her students. She did much to promote collaborative research between departments receiving a 2012 National Science Foundation grant in recognition of this and was a participant in the 2017 University Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. In addition to her academic work Rich was also a dedicated musician and accomplished violinist having attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.  Her publications included includes essays on film, rhetoric, Shakespeare and composition, and Adorno: A Critical Guide (2015),  An Introduction to Critical Theory (2010) and An Introduction to Modern Feminist Theory (2014).

Dr. Michael Cotsell is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Delaware. With a strong focus on Victorian and American modernist literature, he has significantly contributed to literary scholarship. Dr. Cotsell was the Associate Editor of the Dickens Companions series and edited The Companion to Our Mutual Friend. He also served as General Editor for the series English Literature and the Wider World, editing Creditable Warriors. His editorial work includes critical essays on Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. Notably, he authored Barbara Pym and The Theater of Trauma, exploring American modernist drama and psychiatry. Dr. Cotsell's expertise includes American and Victorian literature, and the works of Paul Bowles and Barbara Pym. His ongoing research continues to delve into the intersections of psychiatry and American modernism.

Michael Hattaway was educated at Victoria University of Wellington and Cambridge University. He taught at Kent, British Columbia, Massachusetts, and New York University in London. He was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His publications included Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994), Renaissance and Reformations (2005), studies of Hamlet (1987) and Richard II (2008), editions of Henry VI Parts I, II, and III (1990-1993), As You Like It (2009), and A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2010).

Stuart Andrews is now Librarian of Wells & Mendip Museum, UK, after more than 30 years of teaching at Clifton College. His special interest is the way propaganda shapes public perceptions of events. Among his publications are The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution 1789-99 (2000), Irish Rebellion: Protestant Polemic 1798-1900 (2006), Methodism and Society (2007) and Lenin’s Revolution (2007).

Chris Ackerley earned his BA and MA at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and his PhD at the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Otago since 1976 and is now Emeritus Professor. Specialising in annotation, particularly of Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett, his books include A Companion to Under the Volcano (1984), Demented Particulars: The Annotated Murphy (2004), The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett (2006), and Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated “Watt” (2005).

Dr. Andrew Harrison specialises in D.H. Lawrence studies. He is the founding editor of the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies and serves on the Editorial Board of Katherine Mansfield Studies. As Director of the D.H. Lawrence Research Centre, he plays a pivotal role in Lawrence scholarship. He is also a council member of the D.H. Lawrence Society of Great Britain and a member of the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America. His works include D.H. Lawrence and Italian Futurism (2003) and Sons and Lovers essays (2005).

Petros Stefaneas is an associate professor of logic and formal methods in computer science at the Department of Mathematics of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Stephen Siddall was Head of English at The Leys School in Cambridge for 31 years and has taught Shakespeare courses for university students and for the University of Cambridge International Summer School in Shakespeare.

Jared Curtis, Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University, is the editor of Poems, in Two Volumes and Other Poems, 1800-1807, Last Poems, 1821-1850, and co-editor with Carol Landon of Early Poems and Fragments, 1785-1797, all in the Cornell Wordsworth.

John Lennard took his B.A. and D.Phil. at Oxford University, and his M.A. at Washington University in St Louis. He has taught for the Universities of London, Cambridge, and Notre Dame, and for the Open University, and was Professor of British and American Literature at the University of the West Indies—Mona 2004–09.

Charles Moseley teaches English and Classics in the University of Cambridge, and was formerly Programme Director of the University's International summer Schools in Shakespeare and English Literature.

Dr. Paul McDonald was a Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Course Leader for Creative Writing at the University of Wolverhampton, with his research largely focusing on comedy. He is the author of twelve books, including three poetry collections and three comic novels.

W. J. B. Owen's scholarly work included his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1957), Wordsworth as Critic (1969), Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1974) and his edition of The Fourteen-Book Prelude for the Cornell Wordsworth (1985).

Laura Vivanco has a PhD from the University of St Andrews and is an independent scholar of romance fiction including both modern popular romance and mediaeval Hispanic literature.

Sandra L. Dwyer, Ph.D. is Lecturer in the department of philosophy at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. She coordinates graduate student teachers who teach critical thinking and business ethics for the departments of philosophy and religious studies.