Matthew Pethers is Associate Professor of American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-editor of The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art and The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing.

Leonard von Morzé is Associate Professor of English and Interim Dean of the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the editor of Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World.

Hilary Emmett is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where she specialises in transnational literary studies. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook to Charles Brockden Brown and The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies.