Jennifer Greiman is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University. She specializes in 18th- and 19th-century Atlantic literatures, democratic theory, and the work of Herman Melville. Her latest book, Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form, was published in 2023. She is also the author of Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (2010), co-editor of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (2013), and Associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.
Michael Jonik teaches American literature and critical theory at the University of Sussex. He has published Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (Cambridge 2018), and writes on pre-1900 American literature, continental philosophy, politics, and the history of science. He has held fellowships at the Cornell Society for the Humanities and the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, and won research grants from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is founding member of The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Reviews and Special Issues editor for the journal Textual Practice.