Katherine Scheil, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, writes on Shakespeare and women, including Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (2018) and She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012). She is finishing a book on the history of women in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Linda Shenk, Professor of English, Iowa State University, conducts transdisciplinary research on collaborative storytelling-from Elizabethan drama, diplomacy, and court culture to co-creating climate resilience among researchers and communities. She has published in ELR, WIREs Climate Change, Environmental Humanities, and Explorations in Renaissance Culture.