Director

Patricia A. Matthew Associate Professor of English, Montclair State University

Advisory Board

Patricia Akhimie Director, Shakespeare Folger Institute 

Carole V. Bell  Lecturer, University of South Florida, Freelance Journalist, Co-producer and Co-host of the Black Romance Podcast

Manu Chander Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University

Kim F. Hall  Lucyle Hook Professor of English, Professor of Africana Studies, Barnard College

Paula Krebs  Executive Director, Modern Language Association

Devoney Looser  Regents Professor of English, Arizona State University

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth Lecturer History of Art/ Programme Director, Global Premodern Art, The University of Edinburgh

Joseph Rezek Associate Professor of English/Director, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University

Ayanna Thompson  Director, Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies/Regents Professor of English, Arizona State University

Karin Wulf  Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library/Professor of History, Brown University