Meredith L. McGill is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and the editor of The Traffic in Poems (Rutgers University Press, 2008).  She has published essays on American copyright law, handwriting and mass production, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Lowell, and Wallace Stevens. The incoming director of the Center for Cultural Analysis, McGill leads the New Media Literacies and Historical Poetics working groups.

Virginia Jackson is an associate professor of nineteenth-century American literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (Princeton University Press, 2005), which won the 2005 MLA Prize for a First Book and the 2006 Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa.  Her research interests include comparative poetics, genre theory, the history and theory of American public discourse, feminist literary theory, and the history of literary criticism.

Max Cavitch is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). He has published essays on his central interests – American literature, gender and sexuality studies, historical poetics, and cinema – in a variety of journals, including American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Early American Literature, Screen, and Victorian Poetry. Cavitch is a 2007-2008 resident fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities, and has has served on the Advisory Council of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies since 2001.

Yopie Prins is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Victorian Sappho (Princeton University Press, 1999) and the co-editor of Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (Cornell University Press, 1997). Her research areas include Victorian poetry, Classical Greek literature and its reception, gender criticism, and translation studies; she has also published numerous translations of Dutch contemporary literature. She is co-founder of the University of Michigan “Contexts for Classics” interdepartmental consortium, which is dedicated to exploring the relationship between Classical antiquity and the modern world.