Adam is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Harvard University. He specializes in English Romanticism and has broad interests across English and American literary movements. He is currently at work on a dissertation that offers a re-evaluation and reinterpretation of Wordsworth’s lyric poetry. He enjoys talking about English poetry with friends and, with his wife deryn, regularly hosts poetry events at his home in Cambridge, Mass.

Catherine is a PhD candidate in English Literature. She focuses on twentieth century literature, and is currently writing about connections between World War I literature and the Gothic tradition. Beyond these specific interests, Catherine enjoys reading a wide range of authors and has presented on Dickens, Hemingway, Eliot, David Jones, T.S. Eliot, D.W. Griffith and Abel Gance. She is also involved as an editor in a long-term digital humanities project with the David Jones Center and Cambridge University Digital Library to transcribe and encode David Jones' entire archive for public use.

Robin is a sixth-year doctoral candidate at Boston College. She writes on medieval mysticism, moral theory, and hermeneutics, focusing on Richard of St. Victor and Hadewijch of Brabant and the role of metaphor and metaphysics in their theologies of the Trinity. A native Tucsonan in love with the New England coast and climate, she enjoys spending leisure time on strolls along the Charles, the Seaport, and the Boston College reservoir.

Kara is a PhD candidate at Tufts University. Her work focuses on early modern literature and culture, specifically witchcraft and occult epistemologies. Her dissertation claims that gendered ways of knowing are corrupted through the dramatizations of witchcraft that are included in pamphlets and treatises. When she is not decoding early modern spells, Kara loves reading everything from twentieth century British and American poetry to the latest bestseller.