Brenda Ayres, now semiretired, teaches online English courses for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA.
Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada.
Ayres and Maier have coedited several collections of essays. The most recent are
The Theological Dickens (2021),
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020),
Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (2020),
Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (2019) and
Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (2019).