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1Sorana CORNEANU is Associate Professor of English and researcher in early modern studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her work focuses on the intellectual history of the early modern period, with special interest in the articulations of literary, philosophical, religious and scientific thought. From 2015 to 2017, she was the principal investigator of the UEFISCDI research grant 368/2015, ‘An Intellectual History of the Imagination: Bridging Literature, Philosophy and Science in Early Modern and Enlightenment England’. Among her publications are Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Boyle’s Moral Philosophy’, in The Bloomsbury Companion to Boyle (Bloomsbury, 2020), and most recently with Koen Vermeir, ‘The Art of Thinking’ in The Cambridge History of the Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

2Marieke HENDRIKSEN (PhD Leiden University, 2012) is a historian of science and art. She is currently a senior researcher and research group leader at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam. Previously, she held postdoctoral positions and taught at the universities of Groningen and Utrecht. She was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the National Maritime Museum in London, the Science History Institute, the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, Columbia University, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. She won a Wellcome Trust grant for a research project at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a KNAW Early Career Award. Marieke is a director of the Dutch science foundation (NWO)-funded project Art DATIS. Her research focuses on how sensory experiences and material culture shaped epistemic cultures and knowledge identities. Her monograph, Elegant Anatomy. The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections (Brill, 2015), reintroduced the actors’ category of aesthesis to analyze the sensory and material knowledge underlying historical anatomical preparations. Her second book, Enlightened Anatomy. Model making and medical education, 1750–1850, is due to appear in 2023.

3Daria NOVGORODOVA is a historian of collections and collecting, and of gemmology. She has a background in geology and a PhD in Cultural Studies. She is currently senior researcher of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, after having been curator of the Precious and Decorative Stones Collection there between 2015 and 2020. She has published numerous articles in Russian, Polish and English on museology, the cultural history of eighteenth-century science, and the reconstruction of collecting practices.

4Mickaël POPELARD is Professor of early modern literature at the University of Caen Normandie. He has published several articles and book chapters on early modern drama and Bacon’s philosophy. His publications include two monographs on Shakespeare and Bacon, as well as a collection of essays on Shakespeare and science, Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare (Edinburgh University Press, 2017 & 2019), coedited with Sophie Chiari. His most recent work, La Nouvelle Atlantide et autres textes littéraires, offers a French translation of Bacon’s New Atlantis (Classiques Garnier, 2022).

5Seth RUDY is an Associate Professor of English at Rhodes College. He earned his PhD in English and American Literature from New York University in 2010. A scholar of Eighteenth-century British literature, his work addresses authors and areas of inquiry from the Scientific Revolution to the end of the Romantic period with a focus on the history of ideas and encyclopedic knowledge projects. His first book, Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), examines how concepts of ‘complete knowledge’ shaped literary and non-literary works throughout the long eighteenth century. His most recent publication, The Ends of Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2023) coedited with Rachel Scarborough King, brings together contributions from across the arts and sciences to consider why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.

6Susana SEGUIN is Assistant Professor HDR at Paul-Valéry Montpellier III University, permanent member of IHRIM UMR 5317 ENS de Lyon and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and its relations with science and philosophy. She is in head of the ‘Libertins et clandestins’ research team and co-edits, with Pierre-François Moreau, the journal La Lettre clandestine (Éditions Garnier). Among her publications is Science et religion dans la pensée française du xviiie siècle. Le mythe du Déluge universel (H. Champion, 2001).

7Matthew SMITH is a lecturer in English at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. He teaches language (English phonetics/grammar, translation), as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, in addition to Business English, in which field he has co-published a manual (Studyrama, 2019). Since his agrégation de lettres anglaises and an initial PhD on political/historicising approaches to the concept of character in Jane Austen’s novels versus semiotic approaches, he has published academically on the English nation-state, and on the absorption of Tory historical narratives within the Romanticism of Walter Scott. His current research offers a specific vantage point on questions of disciplinary boundaries and vocational versus purely academic approaches to subject fields. He was co-editor of the volume Mapping Fields of Study: The Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2019), to which he also contributed a chapter questioning Eagletonian assumptions about the emergence of English as a discipline in the nineteenth century, focusing on the first real professorship of English, that of Henry Morley. He is currently working on a book centred upon Morley as Unitarian, periodical editor, and disciplinary founder.

8Richard SOMERSET is a lecturer at the Université de Lorraine. He is primarily interested in the concept of historicity in the nineteenth century as manifested in the fields of natural science, historiography and literature. This interdisciplinary work naturally led to an engagement with the history of disciplines and disciplinarity, starting with a coedited collection of essays, Mapping Fields of Study: The Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies, (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2019). His previous publications include numerous articles on Romantic science, evolutionary thought and evolutionary popularisation in France and in Britain, mostly focusing on the argumentative deployment of narrative form, but also addressing translation and the use of illustrations. He has produced studies of specific authors such as Humphry Davy, George Eliot, William Morris, Bram Stoker, Honoré de Balzac, Jules Michelet, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Arthur Conan Doyle.

9Laurence TALAIRACH is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and associate researcher at the Alexandre Koyré Center for the History of Science and Technology. Her research interests cover medicine, life sciences and English literature in the long nineteenth century. She is the author of Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 (University of Wales Press, 2019), Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2009) and Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Fiction (Ashgate, 2007). She has also edited five collections of articles on the popularisation of science (including Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in France and Britain, 1761–1901 (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2011)), as well as two novels by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Thou Art the Man [1894] (Valancourt Books, 2008) and Dead Love Has Chains [1907] (Valancourt Books, 2014).

10Emilia WILTON-GODBERFFORDE is a lecturer in French in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has worked as a Research Associate at the IAS in Princeton. She is a specialist of French theatre in the early modern period. In addition to articles and chapters on Molière, Racine, Rotrou, Tristan L’Hermite, Bernard Lamy and Pierre Nicole, she has published two books: Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy (Routledge, 2017) and English-French Translation (Routledge, 2020) co-authored with Christophe Gagne.


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