Kathryn Ready is Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is volume co-editor of Lumen XLI, co-editor of the collection The Art of Exchange: Models, Forms and Practices of Sociability between Great Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century (Hermann, 2015) and is also completing a SSHRC-funded monograph project Dissenting Sociability, Romantic Politics, and the Aikin Family Legacy.

David Sigler is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, with research interests in British Romanticism, gender and sexuality studies, and psychoanalytic theory. He is the author of Fracture Feminism: The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism (SUNY, 2021) and Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism (McGill-Queen’s, 2015).