Pearl Chaozon Bauer, PhD

Pearl Chaozon Bauer currently teaches post- and decolonial thought and Victorian seriality at The Nueva School. Motivated by transformational and collaborative leadership models, her research, teaching, community engagement, course development, and curriculum design are informed by Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, Gender and LGBTQIA+ Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Peace Studies methods and philosophy. She is a founding developer of the digital humanities project Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom which provides practical ways to assist scholars and faculty teach a more diverse, antiracist Victorian studies. Currently, she is working on two book projects: Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy, co-edited with Dr. Erik Gray (Columbia University), is a collection of essays that reconsiders familial, friendly, and erotic intimacy in nineteenth-century British poetry; and Pedagogy of Space, a collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Murphy (University of San Francisco), reconfigures and decolonizes the classroom space to encourage creative agency, belonging and healing

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is a professor in the English Department at UC Davis Her scholarly interests include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature of Britain and the British Empire, ecocriticism and environmental studies, gender studies, and media studies. Her recently-completed book titled Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion appeared with Princeton University Press in October 2021. Previous books include Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture (Stanford University Press, 2013), and Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (University of Michigan Press, 2008). In 2018, she guest-edited a special issue of Victorian Studies on "Climate Change and Victorian Studies" and in 2019 she published a co-edited volume titled Teaching William Morris. She also edited the first fully-annotated collection of George Bernard Shaw's political writings (Oxford, 2021).

Devin Griffiths writes about the relation between literature, science, and the environment. His work has appeared in various academic journals, including Critical Inquiry, English Literary History, Studies in English Literature, Victorian Studies, and Book History. His first book, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins, published in 2016 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, examines how historical novels shaped both the life sciences and the humanities, by means of a new comparative method that established our modern, relational understanding of history. It was shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science's book prize, and was runner-up for the first book prize of the British Association for Romantic Studies. I am also the coeditor of After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. The collection gathers an international roster of scholars to ask what Darwin's writing offers future of literary scholarship and critical theory, as well as allied fields like history, art history, philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, the history of race, aesthetics, and ethics.

Sabrina Gilchrist, PhD

Sabrina Gilchrist teaches Literature at The Groton School. She completed her PhD at The University of Florida with a Women’s Studies Certificate and researches nineteenth-century dance and its cultural resonances across issues of race, gender, and nationality.