Susan Brown is professor of English at the University of Guelph and visiting professor at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include the digital humanities, Victorian literature, and women’s writing. All of these interests inform , an ongoing experiment in digital literary history published online by Cambridge University Press since 2006 that she directs and co-edits. She leads the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory infrastructure project.

Marie Carrière est directrice du Centre de littérature canadienne à l’Université de l’Alberta, où elle enseigne aussi la littérature québécoise, française et comparée. Elle a publié récemment (2012) aux Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa. Carrière mène des recherches sur l’écriture contemporaine des femmes, l’évolution de la pensée féministe ainsi que l’éthique en littérature.

Patricia Demers, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Alberta, has received numerous awards for her research and teaching. The author or editor of seventeen books and over fifty articles, she has served in senior positions with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Coucil and the Royal Society of Canada.

Louise Dennys is executive publisher, Knopf Random Vintage Canada Publishing Group, and executive vice-president, Random House of Canada Limited. She is a recipient of the Order of Canada for her contribution to Canadian culture; a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal; and most recently the 2013 winner of the Ivy Award for her contribution to Canadian publishing and writers. She is a Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, Bishop’s University, and a past president of PEN Canada.

Cinda Gault teaches at the University of Guelph. In 2012, she published . Her new project, , analyzes Canada’s story of abortion over the twentieth century. From the mid-twentieth century to contemporary times, we see a nation and its writers wrestle with an issue that signifies myriad meanings in a changing culture.

Lucie Hotte est vice-doyenne à la recherche à la faculté des arts de l’Université d’Ottawa où elle est aussi titulaire de la Chaire de recherche sur les cultures et les littératures francophones du Canada et professeure titulaire au département de français. Ses recherches portent surtout sur les théories de la lecture, les littératures minoritaires et l’écriture des femmes. Elle s’intéresse aussi à la réception critique des œuvres d’écrivains marginaux. Elle a beaucoup publié sur les littératures franco-canadiennes et les enjeux institutionnels propres aux littératures minoritaires.

Dean Irvine is director of Editing Modernism in Canada/Édition du modernisme au Canada and associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He is the author of , and editor of ; ; and . With Zalig Pollock and Sandra Djwa, he is a general editor of the Collected Works of P.K. Page and its online companion, .

Gary Kelly, at the University of Alberta, has published books and essays on and editions of the eighteenth-century Bluestocking circle and women writers of Revolution and Romanticism in Britain and the American republic. He has also written on the Romantic novel and Newgate literature and is general editor of the multivolume . He is working on a history of British Romanticism; Romantic chronotopes; and women, learning, and lore in Romantic Britain.

Shauna Lancit is writing a dissertation on the public intellectual contributions of Pauline Johnson, Dorothy Livesay, and Dionne Brand. Her writing, which theorizes and fantasizes the relationships between intellectual work, poetics, and publics, has appeared in , , and , in numerous zines, and in the form of public performance. She wrote her contribution to this collection mostly during her son’s nap time.

Mary McDonald-Rissanen traces her roots back to Prince Edward Island where she was born, brought up, completed her earlier degrees, and now spends her summers. For the rest of the year, Mary teaches English at the University of Tampere (Finland) where she defended her doctoral dissertation on early women’s life writing. Mary’s archival research on ordinary PEI women’s diaries has culminated in her new book, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013).

Lindsey McMaster teaches in the Department of English Studies at Nipissing University. Her research and teaching focus on early Canadian literature, especially the works of women writers and the genre of Canadian gothic. Her book, (2007), examines depictions of women in Canada’s workforce, focusing on writers such as Montreal’s J.G. Sime and turn-of-the-century prostitute Madeleine Blair. She has also published on gothic dimensions in the works of L.M. Montgomery.

Mary-Jo Romaniuk is an adjunct professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta while at the University of Southern California Libraries and Marshall School of Business. Prior to her current positions she was chief librarian (acting) at the University of Alberta, having previously been associate university librarian—Information and Financial Resources. At that time, she first engaged with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory initiatives and this project. She is committed to fostering and preserving traditional formats for scholarly publication while exploring innovative interfaces and technologies that expand the reach and interactivity of scholarship and scholarly communication.

Julie Roy a obtenu le Prix de la Chaire d’étude Claire-Bonenfant sur la condition des femmes en 2004 pour sa thèse de doctorat intitulée . Ses recherches post-doctorales ont porté sur l’histoire littéraire des femmes, la presse et la formation des couventines et elle a codirigé le projet (CRSH, 2006–2011). Elle est archiviste à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada depuis 2007.

Susan Rudy is a literary critic and feminist theorist whose research focuses on the connections between feminist theory and women’s lives. On extended leave from her position as professor of English at the University of Calgary, she is currently director of The Rhodes Project in London and visiting research fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her current research includes, with Kate Blackmon (Said School of Business, University of Oxford), a forthcoming Oxford University Press book on the gender gap in leadership. See (http://rhodesproject.com/publications/).

Chantal Savoie est professeure au département d’études littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal et chercheure au Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ). Elle fait partie du collectif qui rédige la série (Presses de l’Université Laval, six tomes parus) et elle s’intéresse principalement aux pratiques littéraires des femmes et à leur place dans le champ littéraire canadien-français, de même qu’à la culture de grande consommation.

Maïté Snauwaert, professeure adjointe à l’Université de l’Alberta, s’intéresse au vieillissement, au deuil et à la fin de la vie dans la littérature française, canadienne et américaine. Son ouvrage (Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2012) est la première monographie sur un écrivain français dont l’œuvre s’inspire de l’expérience de la perte d’un enfant. À ses publications s’ajoutent la direction et codirection de numéros spéciaux sur Marguerite Duras ( 95, 2011) et Sophie Calle ( 7, 2006). Chroniqueuse pour , elle collabore aussi à la revue culturelle .

Rosemary Sullivan, OC, is the author of thirteen books, including biographies of Elizabeth Smart, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Atwood, and the collective biography, . She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, the Toronto Book Award, and the Yad Vashem Canadian Book Prize. She worked as the director of Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and has held Trudeau, Jackman, and Guggenheim Fellowships.

Sheena Wilson is an assistant professor at Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta. Her research involves an interdisciplinary approach to studying cultural representation of human and civil rights abuses and women’s issues in literature, film, and media. Dr. Wilson is director of the Centre d’écriture bilingue at Campus Saint-Jean, co-director of the Petrocultures Research Group (petrocultures.com) and editor-in-chief of the online journal .