Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY. She has published broadly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. Her books on Dickinson include Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (1987), Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century (2012), and the edition Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them (2016), winner of the MLA Best Scholarly Edition Prize.
She serves on the editorial advisory board for the Emily Dickinson Archive and is founder and director of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive.
Karen Sánchez-Eppler is L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College and serves on the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum. Her first book Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism and the Politics of the Body (1993) included work on Dickinson. Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (2005) initiated her turn to childhood studies. She is one of the founding co-editors of The Journal of
the History of Childhood and Youth and past President of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.