Hannah LeClair’s research in British and French literature of the long nineteenth century focuses on realism's visual rhetorics. Her interests include poetry and poetics, aesthetics and visual culture, the nineteenth-century reception of romanticism, and twentieth-century theories of everyday life. She is writing a dissertation about landscape, setting, and the afterlife of picturesque aesthetics in the nineteenth-century realist novel.

Indie received her B.A. from UCL and her M.St. from the University of Oxford, both in Classics. She now works on Poetry and Poetics, Classical Reception Studies, Translation Studies and is in the GSWS Certificate Program. She is writing her thesis on translation, myth and mysticism in the works of Hilda Doolittle and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. 

Contemporary US women writers, novels and life writing, feminist theory, Socialist Feminism, femininity, queer theory. Women’s book clubs, diverse re-tellings of Pride and Prejudice. 

Anat Dan is a film and media scholar specializing in global documentary media cultures, with a focus on critical humanitarianism and human rights studies. Her multimodal dissertation, Humanism by Other Means: Global Documentary, Human Rights Cultures, and Posthumanism, examines the affordances and limitations of posthuman film aesthetics within the context of the liberal humanist agenda of the film festival circuit.

Yoonbin Cho is a Ph.D. candidate in the Comparative Literature & Literary Theory program at University of Pennsylvania. She researches South Korean cinema with an interest in issues of intermediality and transnationalism. In addition to cinema and media studies, her fields of interest include gender and sexuality, postcolonialism and globalization, affect theory and the transpacific. Yoonbin received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Culture at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.