Karen E. Waldron is Lisa Stewart Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She has published articles on multiple American writers, ranging from William Faulkner to Leslie Marmon Silko.

Robert Friedman teaches at the University of Washington Tacoma, where he is director of the Institute of Technology. He is the author of Collaborative Learning Systems: A Case Study (2008) and Hawthorne's Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry (2000).