Mark Madigan is a professor of English at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York. He is the historical editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa, editor of three volumes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, co-editor of Will Thomas’s memoir The Seeking, and author of numerous essays on American writers, including Cather, Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Fulbright Specialist in Zadar, Croatia.

John Soutter earned his PhD from Liverpool University UK with a dissertation, entitled ‘William Gaddis: Systems Novelist.’ He holds an MA in American Cultural Studies from Keele University UK and a BA in English Language and Literature from Liverpool University UK. He is interested in texts that deploy cognitive reorientation in order to satirize the imposition of a past conception as the present criterion for perceiving reality.

Martin Riker's most recent novel is The Guest Lecture, and his critical writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He previously served as Associate Director of Dalkey Archive and an editor for the Review of Contemporary Fiction before co-founding in 2009, with Danielle Dutton, the feminist publisher Dorothy, a publishing project.

Edwin Frank is the editor and founder of the NYRB Classics series and the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013. His Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel will be published by FSG in the fall of 2024.

Jacob Singer has published in popular and academic outlets like Brooklyn Rail, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, and Rain Taxi. He served as the Small Press Release editor at Entropy for four years. He presented at the International Pynchon Week conference on complex adaptive systems in Inherent Vice as well as on the racial subject in A Frolic of His Own at the William Gaddis Centenary Conference.

Rochelle Gold is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California. Her research and teaching focus on experimental writing, literacy, writing pedagogy, sustainability, and other places where the sciences and humanities come into contact.

Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is the author of Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (Oxford 2020), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and the Modern Language Association’s Matei Calinescu Book Prize, and Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life (Oxford 2012), shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Her scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and she was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship that funded the completion of her law degree (J.D.) in 2019. She is the incoming Editor of Volume D (1914-1945), one of the five volumes of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Tenth Edition (2022).