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.

Fabia (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, working at the intersection of the feminist philosophy of care ethics, critical disability studies and sacrifice studies to examine the fraught concept of (self-)sacrifice in mid-Victorian care communities. She is particularly interested in how Victorian texts negotiate the tension between (self-)sacrifice and self-interest and the kind of challenge this came to pose to the nineteenth-century imagination of care and ethics. Authors she works on include Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Her research interests more broadly include care ethics, medical humanities, feminism, affect studies, ecocriticism and the nineteenth-century realist novel.

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.

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.

Johanna is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London (previously King's College London, the University of Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and has research interests in the Victorial novel, the fin de siècle, music and performance, fuel and extraction discourses, and gender, particularly female labour and its expressions in nineteenth-century fiction. She has co-authored several textbooks on poetry and Shakespeare aimed at GCSE and A-Level students through Peripeteia 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.

Megha is a 3rd year doctoral scholar in the department of English, at Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Delhi NCR, India, working on the areas of death and mourning in Victorian literature. She is also working as a Teaching/ Research Assistant. Her interests spread across a wide understanding of death as an event and the material and biological identity of the corpse as an evidence of finitude. Besides looking at fiction in general, Megha’s research also extends to the broader realm of Victorian nonfiction and 19th Century periodicals. Additionally, Megha takes a keen interest in poetry, especially multilingual poetry. She is also an active poet herself and is currently working on her collection, ‘Unseen.’

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.

Jessica’s research interests include the connection between literary and psychodynamic discourse, transgressive female representations in the long nineteenth century and formalist approaches to poetry. Jessica is currently completing a PhD at Macquarie University on the relationship between Victorian dramatic monologues and nineteenth-century theories of the mind (associationism, monomania and Freudian personality theory). She contends that in nineteenth-century psychological poetry, the female psyche is not depicted chiefly as an interpreter of cultural inputs; rather, women’s ideas seem more contingent than men’s on navigation of the natural world. Thus, women’s “otherness” is mapped onto the environmental matrix that conditions their thoughts.

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 researcher in nineteenth-century art and visual culture. Her PhD thesis, which she completed at the University of Exeter, considered the relationship between the professionalisation of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century women illustrators and cartoonists and the emergence of the New Woman socio-political and cultural phenomenon in Britain. More broadly, her research interests include art and literature from the long nineteenth century, focusing on women artists and writers, gender and sexuality, print and exhibition culture, photography, and fashion. Her biographies of the illustrators Ethel Reed and Celia Anna Levetus for Yellow Nineties 2.0 were published in 2022 and 2024.

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.

Elizabeth Stewart is a part-time PhD student at the University of Sussex, whose research focuses on eighteenth-century women’s writing and depictions of the relationship between feeling and knowledge. Her thesis focuses particularly on the works of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer, and Mary Shelley. She acquired her BA in English Literature from Durham University, her MLitt in Women, Writing and Gender from St Andrews, and her PGCE in Secondary English from Sussex. In 2024, Beth was awarded the Burney Society UK Scholarship and the BSECS-BECC Fellowship. Before embarking on her PhD, Beth was a qualified English teacher, and she is passionate about the accessibility and promotion of literary studies. Recently, she co-authored and released an e-book on Macbeth’s soliloquies for GSCE students.

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.