Lucia Hodgson is Researcher in the Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) and the Department of English at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is the author of Raised in Captivity: Why Does America Fail Its Children? She has published widely on nineteenth-century childhood, including in Early American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, Journal of Juvenilia Studies, and The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the New Humanities. She is currently at work on the book project Taking Liberties: Slavery and the American Seduction Narrative. She is co-founder and co-editor of Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19C Digital Humanities Project.

Allison Giffen is a Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the English Department and the Institute for Critical Disability Studies at Western Washington University where she specializes in nineteenth-century US literature and culture with an emphasis in disability, race, and childhood. She has published in such academic journals as Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Legacy, Women’s Studies, and ATQ and recently co-edited Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature. She is co-founder and co-editor of Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19C Digital Humanities Project.