Karen Raber is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018) and Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and editor with Monica Mattfeld of Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (2017).

Holly Dugan is an Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (2011).