Issue 21.1 (Summer 2025)

Contributor Biographies

Noah Comet is an Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy. He has published extensively in the field of British Romanticism, including the 2013 book Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers and articles and special issues in Studies in Romanticism, The Keats-Shelley Journal, Romanticism, The Wordsworth Circle and others. He is also a mainstream writer on wildlife and the outdoors.

Lindsey Carman Williams, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of South Florida. She earned her MA in Literary, Textual, and Cultural Studies from University of Central Florida in 2018 and PhD in English from Washington State University in 2022. Her research focuses on British literature, women’s Gothic (in particular, ghost stories and supernatural tales), feminist science and technology studies, and feminist disability theory. Carman Williams’s work has been published in Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Language Arts Journal of Michigan.

Katherine J. Chen is the author of Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc (Random House US / Hodder & Stoughton UK), which won the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Mary B (Random House US). Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and other publications, with forthcoming work elsewhere. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Boston University’s MFA program in Fiction and is pursuing her doctoral degree in English at Brown University. Her next book, which is under contract with Random House, will explore through a realist lens the complex and violent world of Arthurian legend, focusing on the sibling dynamic between Morgan le Fay and King Arthur.

Emily Datskou teaches in the English Department and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago. She earned her PhD in nineteenth-century studies from Loyola University with a concentration in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the nineteenth-century British novel, queer theory, and the Gothic. Emily is also the Project Manager for the Lili Elbe Digital Archive, which presents the life narrative of Lili Elbe, one of the most iconic figures in the history of gender variance. She has published on the nineteenth-century novel, queer theory, the Gothic, trans archives, and digital humanities.

Dr. Gillian Daw is an independent scholar who works across disciplines, specializing in the relationship between literature and astronomy. Gillian has presented widely and published papers on astronomy and literature in journals, including Victorian Literature and Culture, Notes and Queries, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Her paper presented at the Royal Society of London was published in The Victorian as “‘On the Wings of Imagination’: Agnes Giberne and Women as the Storytellers of Victorian Astronomy.

Aileen Miyuki Farrar is an Associate Professor of Literature at Nova Southeastern University where she teaches literature and medical humanities. Her scholarship focuses on the interdisciplinary study of literature and science culture, with emphasis on Victorian studies and feminist epistemologies, and she has published in journals including Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, Victorian Review, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.

Nicole Infanta Keller is a part-time lecturer in the English Department at Northeastern University. Her research interests include women’s scientific writing of the long eighteenth century, book history, and digital humanities. She is the Digital Humanities Editor for ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 and the Project Coordinator for the Defoe Society.

John Connor Mulligan is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on the intersection of literature, science, and art. He has written about William Blake, the Herschel siblings, Jean-Baptiste Simeon de Chardin, Andreas Vesalius, corporate medical cultures, and the digital humanities. He currently leads the efforts to digitize the national archives in Bridgetown, St. Michael, Barbados.

Samantha Rochelle (S. R.) Trzinski holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and she studies nineteenth-century British literature, children’s books, and book history. Her recently completed dissertation project considers how Romantic-era women writers use melancholy as a pedagogical tool in their writings to prepare their female readership for the disappointments and sorrows of patriarchal subjugation. She has published in The Lion and the Unicorn, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and she serves as a contributing editor for Gamers with Glasses, a website dedicated to video game scholarship.