J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing (1987) and, with the support of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (2016). He also edited the Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (2001) and The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (2006) and co-edited Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (2001) as well as Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (2012).

Scott Peeples is Professor of English at the College of Charleston and the author of Edgar Allan Poe Revisited (1998) and The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), which received the Patrick F. Quinn Award from the Poe Studies Association. He has also published numerous articles on Poe and other topics in 19th-century American literature. Peeples co-edited the journal Poe Studies from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves on the editorial board of the Edgar Allan Poe Review.

Branka Arsić, Columbia University
Barbara Cantalupo, Pennsylvania State University
Lauren Coats, Louisiana State University
Michael C. Cohen, UCLA
Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University
William E. Engel, Sewanee, The University of the South
Emron Esplin, Brigham Young University
Paul Gilmore, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Lesley Ginsberg, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Paul Grimstad, NYU
John Gruesser, Sam Houston State University
Alexander Hammond, Washington State University
Paul Hurh, University of Arizona
James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel
Virginia Jackson, UC Irvine
Paul Christian Jones, Ohio University
J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University
Richard Kopley, Penn State DuBois
Maurice Lee, Boston University
Kent P. Ljungquist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Stacey Margolis, University of Utah
Bruce Mills, Kalamazoo College, Michigan
Sean Moreland, University of Ottawa
Carl Ostrowski, Middle Tennessee State University
Scott Peeples, College of Charleston
Leland S. Person, University of Cincinnati
Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State University
W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston
Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University
Jacob Rama, Louisiana State University
Valerie Rohy, University of Vermont
Kelly Ross, Rider University
John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California
Laura Saltz, Colby College
Matt Sandler, Columbia University
Agnieszka Soltysik Mconnet, University of Lausanne
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the Holy Cross
Sandra Tomc, University of British Columbia
Alexandra Urakova, Russian Academy of Sciences
Margarida Vale de Gato, Universidade de Lisboa
Ellen Weinauer, University of Southern Mississippi
Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University
Edward Whitley, Lehigh University
Christina Zwarg, Haverford Collegeu

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