
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto) where she teaches postcolonial literature and theory and poetry. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and has taught at Bard, Williams College, City College New York, and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
Her academic research explores how science, medicine, natural history, and other kinds of colonial knowing reshaped literature, culture, economy, and politics. Her first book, Epidemic Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2021) uncovers the history behind the dead metaphor of the “terrorism epidemic,” by looking at documents of public health, policy, immigration law, novels, poems, films, and more.

Ji Eun Lee received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA in 2020 and is now an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. Her first book in progress, Walking London: Urban Gaits of the British Novel, reads the rise of the novel alongside the city’s emergence, analyzing the way in which pedestrian gaits are shaped by the urban environment and, in turn, shape the novel’s form. She contributed eco-justice lesson plans on colonial landscapes of Victorian Africa to Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom and is developing an article on this topic. Recently, she also started another project tentatively titled Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, which will decenter and relocate Victorian studies in a global context. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature Studies in the Novel, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Victorian Literature and Culture, among others.

M.A. Miller, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis, is the author of “George Eliot’s Wetland Form” in Nineteenth-Century Literature and “Intimate Matters: Soil and Species Sexualities in James Grainger’s The Sugar Cane,” in Unsettling Sexuality: Eighteenth-Century Queer Horizons, edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson (forthcoming, 2022). Miller’s dissertation, “Gender Unconformities: Becoming-with the Environment in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Novel,” is in progress, as is a book tentatively titled “Matters of Intimacy: Soils, Species, and Sexualities of Enclosure.” Their writing can also be found on v21 and The Los Angeles Review of Books.