Lucio De Capitani
is a postdoctoral researcher in English Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research interests include colonial and postcolonial literatures (especially Indian writing in English, the work of Amitav Ghosh and of Robert Louis Stevenson), the theories of world literature, the connections between anthropology and literary studies, and (postcolonial) ecocriticism. Most recently, he has co-edited the volume Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide (Wetlands, 2022).
Penny Fielding
is Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her books include Writing and Orality, Scotland and the Fictions of Geography, The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson and (with Andrew Taylor) Literature in Transition: the 1880s. She is a General Editor of the New Edinburgh Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson. She is currently writing a book about fiction and espionage in Scotland from Scott to Spark.
Allison E. Francis
is a poet, playwright, and Professor of English and Theatre at Chaminade University of Honolulu, and publishes scholarship on a range of topics which include Victorian literature, Scottish literature, theatre and poetry, Vodou in Haiti, 19th-Century African American and Caribbean women’s literature, and women’s literature with a focus on science fiction and fantasy. She is co-author of Mulatta—Not so Tragic (2022), and co-editor of South Sea Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain and America (2018), which includes her chapter, “Ernest Hogan’s Colored All-Stars Minstrel Show: A Case of Racial Discrimination in the Republic of Hawai‘i.”
Richard Hill
is Professor of English at Chaminade University of Honolulu. He received his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University, and is author of Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel (2010), and Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text: A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel (2017). He is also editor of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair: Movement, Memory, and Modernity (2017).
is professor of nineteenth-century British literature at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, and she is currently Vice-President for Research. She specializes in narratology and fin-de-siècle adventure. She wrote two books, Charles Dickens: l’écriture comme pouvoir, l’écriture comme resistance (2008) and Les histoires de Sherlock Holmes : une affaire d’identité (2008), as well as numerous articles on Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells.
Roslyn Jolly
is Associate Professor and Honorary Research Associate in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales. She edited Stevenson’s South Sea Tales (1996), and is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (1993), and Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author’s Profession (2009). She is currently producing an edition of Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Other Tales for Cambridge University Press.
Yoon Sun Lee’s
most recent book is The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels (2023). She is also the author of Nationalism and Irony (2004), and Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life (2013). Her writing can be found in MLQ, PMLA, Representations, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory, The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, and other journals and collections. She is currently co-editing with Kent Puckett an issue of Representations on “Proxy Wars” (August 2023), and beginning a larger project on structuralism.
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. Her publications include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow and The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (Oxford, 2005, 2012). She co-edited The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature, (ASLS, 2022), and Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward (Edinburgh, 2022). She also edited Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (MLA, 2013); Scotland As Science Fiction (Bucknell, 2011); and Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell, 2007). She is co-editing The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. She is an Honorary Fellow, Association for Scottish Literature; on the Board of Trustees for the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA.
is Associate Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, specializing in Victorian literature. She is the author of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration (2021), and articles on Arthur Morrison, Stevenson, Elizabeth, Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, and Gothic realism.
Sarah Paterson-Hamlin
received her Ph.D. in Scottish literature from Glasgow University. She subsequently returned to her native New Zealand, where she worked as operations manager at the UpsideDowns Education Trust, which aims to provide speech therapy for Downs Syndrome children. She is co-editor of Aiblins: New Scottish Political Poetry (2016).
Mandy Treagus
is of Welsh, Scottish and Cornish descent, and lives on the unceded lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples in South Australia. She is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, where she teaches literature, culture, and visual studies, with interests in critical race and whiteness, gender and sexuality. She researches Pacific, Victorian and Australian literature and culture and her publications include Empire Girls: The Colonial Heroine Comes of Age, and the co-edited collections Changing the Victorian Subject and Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter.