Paula R. Feldman holds the C. Wallace Martin Chair in English and the Louise Fry Scudder Chair in Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in literature of the British Romantic era and is the author or editor of ten books and many articles on the subject. She is best known as editor of British Women Poets of the Romantic Era and co-editor of The Journals of Mary Shelley; The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe; A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850; and scholarly editions of the work of Helen Maria Williams and Felicia Hemans.
Lisa Vargo is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, and teaches and researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, with a focus on Mary Shelley and Anna Barbauld. She has published on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Robinson, Anna Barbauld, Mary Shelley, Anna Jameson, hypertext editing, gothic fiction, eighteenth-century representations of the moose, Charlotte Smith, and Mathilde Blind. She is the editor of Mary Shelley's Lodore and Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Her edition of Mary Shelley's Spanish and Portuguese Lives appears in Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings.