David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He has contributed essays and reviews to the London Review of Books, Studies in Romanticism, the Nation, Social Research, and other journals. Among his books are Hazlitt: the Mind of a Critic, Skeptical Music, and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke.

Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023). His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson edited by Amor Kohli. He is a recipient fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Whiting Writers Award. Major Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review and host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Science.

Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.  He has wide interests in 19th-century American literature and culture and a particular fascination with the life and work of Frederick Douglass. His recent books are The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (W. W. Norton, 2021), Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard University Press, 2016). Levine is the general editor of the world’s most widely-used anthology of American literature, The Norton Anthology of American Literature. He has been awarded fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently working on a book on Harriet Beecher Stowe and African America.

Michèle Lowrie, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago, works on Roman literature and its reception, with a focus on political thinking. She has published: Horace’s Narrative Odes (Oxford 1997); Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Oxford 2009); and, with Barbara Vinken, Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern (Cambridge 2022). Edited volumes include: The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil, a special volume of Literary Imagination (8.3: 2006), co-edited with Sarah Spence; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace’s Odes and Epodes (Oxford 2009); and Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (Routledge 2015), co-edited with Susanne Lüdemann. She has received fellowships from the ACLS, the NEH, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, as well as residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Konstanz, the University of Munich, the American Academy in Berlin, and Durham University.

Mike Mattison is a native of Minneapolis and a graduate of Harvard University. As a touring blues singer and songwriter with the Derek Trucks Band and Tedeschi Trucks Band he has won two Grammy Awards for Best Blues Album, eight Blues Music Awards from the Blues Music Foundation, and four Canadian Maple Blues Awards. He also is a founding member of the duo Scrapomatic. Mattison has published essays of creative non-fiction, and he is the co-author, with Ernest Suarez, of Poetic Song Verse: Blues-based Popular Music and Poetry. He has recorded and shared the stage with B.B. King, Carlos Santana, the Allman Brothers Band, Solomon Burke and Herbie Hancock, and performed on five continents and in every state, except Alaska. He and Suarez currently are working on a book tentatively titled Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren, and the American Century. He serves on the Council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.

Lee Oser is the author of scholarly monographs on Shakespeare and literary modernism. In his spare time, he scribbles novels and poetry. A former president of the ALSCW, he teaches Religion and Literature at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A native of West Tennessee, Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English and Graduate Program Director at Baylor University and past Baylor Centennial Professor.  He won the Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism and the Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year in History–both for Seamus Heaney’s Regions​ (Notre Dame, 2014).  Russell’s Poetry and Peace:  Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland​ (Notre Dame, 2010) has also won awards from South Atlantic MLA and the South Central MLA for the best academic monograph of 2010.  He has served as Vice-President and President of ALSCW.

Mary Jo Salter is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently The Surveyors (2017), and Nothing by Design (2013). She has been co-editor of the 4th, 5th, and 6th editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Rooms of Light: The Life of Photographs, a song cycle with her lyrics for music by Fred Hersch, premiered in 2015. She is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Meg Tyler was the 2016 Fulbright Professor of Anglophone Irish Writing at Queen’s University in Belfast. She teaches Humanities at Boston University where she also directs a poetry series and chairs the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture. Her book on Seamus Heaney, A Singing Contest, was published by Routledge in their series, Major Literary Authors. Her poetry chapbook, Poor Earth, came out from Finishing Line Press in 2014. Her poems and prose have appeared in Agni, Literary Imagination, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Irish Review and other journals. A chapter on Heaney’s last two volumes appears this Fall in “The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances”: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, edited by Eugene O’Brien (Notre Dame University Press, 2016). She won the 2018 Peyton Richter Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Teaching at Boston University.

Kenneth Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His books include What Was African American Literature? (Harvard 2010), So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago UP, 2003), and Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Chicago UP, 1993).  Recently, he edited Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for Norton Library (2023). He is co-editor with Tess Chakkalakal of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (U of Georgia P, 2013) and of Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (West Virginia 2022). He and Adolph Reed, Jr. coedited Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought (Paradigm, 2009).

Rosanna Warren taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago from 2012 to 2023 (now Emerita).  Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are So Forth (2020), Ghost in a Red Hat (2011), and Departure (2003). Her biography of Max Jacob, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters appeared in October 2020. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

David Yezzi’s latest books are Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet’s Life (St. Martin’s Press) and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems (Measure Press). He is the editor of The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, foreword by J. D. McClatchy. As an actor, he recently performed the roles of King Lear (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory) and Hamlet’s Ghost/Player King (Chesapeake Shakespeare). His verse play Schnauzer (2018), produced by The Baltimore Poets Theater, was published by Exot Books. His libretto for David Conte’s opera Firebird Motel has been widely performed and is available on CD from Arsis. A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92^nd Street Y in New York, he was a 2022 short-term visiting fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.