Suzy Anger is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where she specializes in Victorian literature and science-technology studies. She is the author of Victorian Interpretation (Cornell University Press, 2005), editor of Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture (Cornell University Press, 2001), and coeditor of Victorian Science as Cultural Authority (Pickering & Chatto, 2011).

Linda Austin is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. A specialist in Victorian literature and culture, she is the author of The Practical Ruskin: Economics and Audience in the Late Work (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), Nostalgia in Transition, 1780–1917 (University of Virginia Press, 2007), and Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Shuhita Bhattacharjee is Assistant Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies in the Departments of Liberal Arts and Design at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, South Asian studies, and sexuality studies. She is the author of Postsecular Theory: Texts and Contexts (Orient Blackswan, 2021), which conducts a postsecular analysis of nineteenth-century New Woman fiction, scientific romances, and Anglo-Indian novels. Her recent article “The Insurgent Invasion of Anti-Colonial Idols in Late-Victorian Literature,” in English Literature in Transition, is part of a monograph she is completing on representations of colonial idols in fin-de-siècle literature and culture. With support from a UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Grant, she is spearheading the formation of the Nineteenth-Century Diversities Research Network, South Asia chapter.

Chris Dingwall is Assistant Professor of Design History in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. His work focuses on American and African American cultural history with interests in material culture, political economy, and race. His first book, Selling Slavery: Race and the Industry of American Culture, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and he is working on a new book project about Black commercial artists in Chicago, which is under contract at the University of Chicago Press.

Edward Jones-Imhotep is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (MIT Press, 2017), which was awarded the Sidney Edelstein Prize (2018) from the Society for the History of Technology.

Minsoo Kang is Professor in European History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of France, England, and Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2010) and a coeditor of Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830–1914: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe (Ashgate, 2008). Recent articles include “The Mechanical Daughter of Rene Descartes,” in Modern Intellectual History, and “The Question of the Woman-Machine: Gender, Thermodynamics, and Hysteria in the Nineteenth Century,” in SubStance.

Stephen Knight is Professorial Fellow in the Department of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has held positions as Professor and Head of English at the University of Cardiff, and at the University of Melbourne, where he was also the Robert Wallace Professor of English. His areas of specialization include medieval romance literature and detective fiction – a field in which he has authored numerous books, among them Crime Fiction, 1800–2000: Detection, Death, Diversity (Palgrave, 2004) and Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (Macmillan, 1980).

George Levine is Professor Emeritus in English at Rutgers University. He is author of The Realistic Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 1981), Dying to Know: Scientific Knowledge and Narrative in Victorian Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and Realism, Ethics, and Secularism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), among others. His work on Charles Darwin includes Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (Harvard University Press, 1988), Darwin Loves You (Princeton University Press, 2006), and Darwin the Writer (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Richard Menke is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900: Many Inventions (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as the editor of Victorian Material Culture, Volume 3: Inventions and Technological Things (Routledge, 2022), a collection of primary documents.

Simone Natale is Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin and Editor of Media, Culture & Society. He is the author of two monographs: Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016).

Alexander Offord is a Ph.D. student at the IHPST at the University of Toronto, where he studies histories of race, performance, and scientific spectacle. He is also an award-winning playwright and theatre artist, and co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed performance company Good Old Neon.

Kara Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter. She is a theatre historian and a dramaturg. Her book Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History was published by Palgrave in 2011.

Aren Roukema is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He works at the intersections of popular culture, mental science, and heterodox religion in the Anglosphere. Publications include Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams (Brill, 2018) and “Testimony, Fiction, and the Science of the Mind: Occult Empiricism and A. P. Sinnett’s Karma: A Novel” (Journal of Literature and Science 16, no. 1). He is the Editor of Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism.

Sally Shuttleworth is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She works on the interrelations of medicine, science, and culture. Her works include George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (Cambridge University Press, 1984) and The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840–1900 (Oxford University Press, 2010). Her most recent books are the coauthored Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) and the coedited Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in History of Science, Lancaster University, and Honorary Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is an intellectual historian of the human sciences, with published work especially on the history of forensic psychiatry, relations of mind and brain, and psychology. Books include The Norton History of the Human Sciences (Norton, 1997), Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (Columbia University Press, 2007), Between Mind and Nature: A History of Psychology (Reaktion Books, 2013), The Sense of Movement: An Intellectual History (Process Press, 2019), and Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Routledge, 2023).

Tyson Stolte is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at New Mexico State University. His monograph Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind was published by Oxford University Press in 2022, and he has published articles on the intersections between Victorian psychology, nineteenth-century science, and literature.

Thomas Vranken is Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of the South Pacific. His research explores nineteenth-century literature’s relationship with technology and print culture. He is the author of Simulating Antiquity in Boys’ Adventure Fiction: Maps and Ink Stains (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialisation (Routledge, 2019).