Natasha Bharucha is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Oxford University, funded by the AHRC and Christ Church. Her thesis explores representations of walking in early nineteenth-century periodical essays, primarily focusing on London. Her broader research interests include urban history, embodiment, the essay form, prose style, and periodical culture.

Dan is a PhD student at Loughborough University. He is rediscovering animals in the history of vegetarianism through an exploration of animal-human interaction in the writings of Victorian and Edwardian vegetarians. He is also interested in the Romantic genealogy of late-Victorian and Edwardian vegetarian thought and animal sensibilities. More broadly, his research interests include animal ethics, nonviolence, ecological thought, transcendentalism, and evolutionary thought.

David is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on C19 British history, including the books Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846-55 (Manchester UP, 2002); Palmerston: A Biography (Yale UP, 2010). His Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-22) has supported his work on a scholarly edition of The Diaries of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury to be published in 4 volumes in the British Academy Records of Social and Economic History series (published by Oxford University Press). David has also been editor of the Southampton Records Series since 2013.

Aude is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Southampton. Her current research interests include the relation between science and literature, and the representation of ‘the monstrous family' in Francophone literature. She is finishing a book based on her PhD, Fleurs monstrueuses: histoire d'une métamorphose, Littérature, femmes et botanique, describing the links between visual and textual representations of flowers, and the monstrous representation of women during the late nineteenth century. At the same time, she is working on the contemporary Lebanese-born Canadian playwright, painter and director Wajdi Mouawad and how he explores the family as a metaphor and origin of the Lebanese civil war.

Trish is Associate Professor in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University. Her primary research interests are in the work of Thomas Hardy, crime fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and literature of that era that engages in new ways of thinking about time. She has a monograph entitled Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and an edited collection of essays entitled Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and is co-editor of a collection of essays on neglected Victorian writers, Victorian Fiction beyond the Canon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is the editor of Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity, Glimpses of Eternity, Experiments with Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and is currently editing a new volume of Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow (1917) for Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2024).

Marion Tempest Grant (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Communications and Culture program at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research explores British handicraft guilds, women’s work, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Her broader interests include art history, women’s history, digital humanities, visual culture, and the periodical press.

Ellie Hibbert is a History PhD student at the University of Essex, funded by a Chancellor’s Scholarship. Her thesis examines the experiences, emotions and embodiment of mothers and their midwives during pregnancy and childbirth in England in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This project has a particular focus on women’s writing and ego-documents, with the aim to uncover their own voices and examine their experiences alongside medical literature and practitioner casebooks. Ellie's broader research interests include medical humanities, women’s and LGBTQIA+ histories, and the role of archives, particularly uncovering archival silences, and the hidden histories of marginalised groups.

Pauline is a PhD candidate at Université Paris Cité (France). She holds a MA in Romantic and Victorian Literary Studies from Durham University. Her current doctoral research focuses on the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with a particular emphasis on the notions of event, efficacy, and potentiality. More broadly, she is interested in literary theory and politics, but also in British Romanticism and France. She has published articles in Postgraduate English and Romanticism on the Net.

Will Kitchen was Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Southampton and Visiting Tutor at Arts University Bournemouth. He is the author of Romanticism and Film: Franz Liszt and Audio-Visual Explanation (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), and editor of ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson (Edinburgh University Press, TBD). He is currently researching several further books, including the world’s first monograph on Romantic scholar Morse Peckham. His interests include Romanticism in audio-visual media and philosophy, as well as the cultural representation of genius, leadership, and labour.

Andie Lloyd is an M4C AHRC funded PhD student, based at Birmingham City University. Her research explores the printing history of Birmingham’s early nineteenth century radical newspapers. She is also a rare books librarian and former Curator of Printed Heritage Collections at the British Library. Her research interests are printing history and culture, bibliography, radical politics, periodical studies and nineteenth century literature.

Katie Maclean is a Carnegie Trust funded PhD student at the University of Stirling researching stage adaptations of Jane Austen. Her project investigates Austen in amateur and professional theatre from the mid nineteenth century to present, and the queer dimensions of performance in these works. She currently holds a fellowship as the 2024 Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence at Goucher College, Maryland. Her first publication, an essay in Retelling Jane Austen (2024), is due to be published by McFarland & Co. in July.

Megan is a TECHNE-funded PhD student at the University of Surrey working in English Literature. Megan's project reads late Victorian and early modernist literature in the context of contemporaneous anarchist thought and praxis, showing that anarchism’s widespread influence on the production, circulation, and reception of literature at this time created new social and aesthetic relationships across class, gender, and national boundaries.

Beth Mills is a researcher in Victorian literature and science. Her SWW-DTP-funded doctoral thesis at the Universities of Exeter and Reading examined the interplay between science and fiction in the work of the late-Victorian writer, Grant Allen, in which she analysed representations of scientific identity, evidence, and knowledge in Allen’s short stories, detective fiction, and scientific writings. Beth has a strong interest in Digital Humanities, having worked on the ‘Hardy and Heritage’ digitisation project, a collaboration between the University of Exeter and the Dorset County Museum, and as a Research and Editorial Assistant for the online platforms for peer-reviewed nineteenth-century scholarship, BRANCH and COVE.

Stephanie is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St. Andrews, where she specializes in the visual culture of Europe and its colonial networks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her first book (Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism; 2021) examines the relationship between art and the production of scientific knowledge at the dawn of the nineteenth century. She holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Columbia University.

Michelle Reynolds is a PhD student in Art History and Visual Culture and English at the University of Exeter. Her thesis is on the relationship between the professionalisation of Victorian and Edwardian women illustrators and cartoonists in Britain and the emergence of the New Woman feminist ideal and cultural icon. More broadly, her research interests include art and literature from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on women artists and writers, gender and sexuality, print and exhibition culture, photography, film, and fashion. She is a PGR Representative for the University of Exeter's Centre for Victorian Studies.

Fraser is Assistant Professor in English and Medical Humanities in the Department of English Studies, Durham University. His research focusses on gender, sexuality and the body in Victorian and early twentieth-century literature. His monograph Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2022. Other recent work includes a chapter on Vernon Lee, Mary Robinson and queer pastoral soundscapes in The Victorian Idyll (Routledge, forthcoming) and a translation of Lee's essay on ‘Aristocratic Pastorals’ (Fanfulla della domenica, 1885) in Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism. He is currently working on a project on touch and tactility in Victorian literature, which draws upon theories of neurodiversity to investigate the descriptive styles of sensory perception.

Claudia Sterbini is a PhD student at Edinburgh University. Her project, funded by AHRC through SGSAH, explores the construction of pathological asexuality in Victorian fiction. Alongside her role with RRR, she is on the referee panel of the publication The Wellsian. She has presented widely on the gothic, asexuality and the medical humanities.

Benedict is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. His teaching and research focuses on the music of the long nineteenth century. Rooted in detailed analytical engagement with music, his work nonetheless seeks to explore the intersection between technical analysis and wider questions of meaning (cultural, historical, and philosophical). Publications include The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (Oxford, 2016), Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (Cambridge, 2022), and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (2021). He is editor-in-chief of Music & Letters and general editor of Cambridge University Press’s Music in Context series.

Clare Walker Gore is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Open University having previously held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her doctoral work was on disability and Victorian fiction, and her first book, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. She has co-edited a collection of essays on the work of Charlotte M. Yonge (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and is currently pursuing a project on Victorian women novelists' life writing.