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David Bordelon is Professor of English at Ocean County College in Toms River, New Jersey. His publications include essays and chapters on nineteenth-century popular fiction, American book history, and graphic narratives.

Mohamed Cheriet is Full Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at University of Quebec's Ecole de technologie supérieure. He is the director of Synchromedia, a laboratory for Multimedia Communications in Telepresence. He is the Director General of the FRQNT Strategic Cluster on the Operationalization of Sustainability Development (2019–25).

Jennifer J. Connor is Professor of Medical Humanities in the Faculty of Medicine, cross-appointed to the Department of History, and affiliated with the Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada. In 2015 she received both the Marie Tremaine Medal and the Watters-Morley Prize of the Bibliographical Society of Canada in recognition of her historical and bibliographical scholarship that focuses on medical book culture. She is a former editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and long ago, former co-editor of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History.

Charlotte Eubanks is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She has a PhD from the University of Colorado and focuses on material culture, performance studies, and ethics, especially in Japanese and Buddhist literature from the medieval period to the present. She has published a monograph, Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (California, 2011) and is currently busy with a book on the politics of transwar Japanese visual culture. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, and she is also an Associate Editor at Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Laura Jeffries is Professor of English at Florida State College at Jacksonville, where she teaches British and American literature, race and ethnicity in American culture, and college composition. Her publications include an examination of "The White Man's Burden" as a meme in 21st-century white supremacist internet communities; a study of language among young women's internet cultures; and several articles about the English Reformation, early English Bible translations and The Book of Common Prayer, and the history of Irish penal laws. She holds an MA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD in Literature from Emory University.

Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He has published collection catalogues for the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas (with Maria Wells) and the Princeton University Library, along with three book-length bibliographies, a number of articles, and a monograph, The Protean Virgil: Material Form and the Reception of the Classics (Oxford, 2015), in book history. Along with Lisa Pon, he organized a conference on the book in Venice and co-edited the proceedings as The Books of Venice/Il libro veneziano (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and Oak Knoll Press, 2008). His current research focuses on the censorship of classical texts in the Renaissance.

Mary Catherine Kinniburgh received her PhD in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she edited archival documents for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, including materials by Gregory Corso and Sister Mary Norbert Korte. She has taught at Brooklyn College, served as a literary manuscripts specialist in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library, and worked as a Digital Fellow at CUNY. She is currently Archives and Rare Books Associate at Granary Books, an independent publisher that facilitates the organization, preservation, and sale of archives of contemporary artists and authors.

Leila Koivunen is a Professor in the Department of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests include the history of European imagination and representation of the non-Western world, the culture of display, and the processes of knowledge formation. Her doctoral dissertation (Routledge, 2009) traced the roots of stereotyped European imagery of Africa by focusing on the practices of visual representation and illustration processes of travel accounts in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Andrew Piper is Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at...

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