Misty Anderson is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee. Her publications include Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief and the Borders of the Self (2012) and Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage(2002).

Colin Jager is Professor of English at Rutgers University, and author of Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age (2014) and The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (2007).

Deidre Lynch is Professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History (2015), Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees(2000), and The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998).

Regina Schwartz is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor Law at Northwestern University. Her books include Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism (2008),Transcendence (2005), The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (1997), and Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost (1988).