Poets & Lovers

Our Team

Leadership Team

• Professor Marion Thain is Professor of Literature and Culture at King’s College London, where she currently also serves as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Thain has published five books, including the first scholarly monograph on the work of Michael Field (Michael Field: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Fin de Siècle, Cambridge, 2007), and the collection Michael Field, the Poet (1880-1914): Published and Manuscript Materials (Broadview, 2009).

• Professor Carolyn Dever is a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, where she served previously as provost, following six years as Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Dever has published four books with two more forthcoming: Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field (Princeton, 2022), is the first monograph about the diary; the second is a scholarly edition of selections from the diary aimed for an audience of faculty and graduate students.

• Professor Peter Logan is Emeritus Professor of English at Temple University. He is the author of two books on nineteenth-century British literature and served as General Editor of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel (2011). He is the founding Director of the Digital Scholarship Center in Temple University Libraries. He is currently directing the Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, an NEH-supported project creating and analyzing digital text from historical editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

• Professor Holly Laird is Frances W. O’Hornett Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. Professor Laird, an expert in Victorian women’s writing, is the first person to engage in peer review with new transcripts, checking them for format and consistency, in advance of TEI encoding.

• Hazel-Dawn Dumpert is an experienced project manager who has guided to publication two previous scholarly digital editions: the NEH-supported project, The Occom Circle and The Jamaican Slave Names Project. Dumpert is the author of an overview of project managing digital humanities editions that appears in the book Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists.

• Dr. John Bell, Director of the Data Experiences and Visualizations Studio at Dartmouth College, is an artist and developer whose work focuses on digital collaboration, collaborative creativity, and the social impact of open culture. Bell teaches courses in Dartmouth’s Department of Film and Media Studies, is Assistant Professor of Digital Curation at the University of Maine, and manages many digital humanities and publishing projects for Dartmouth’s Research Computing Group.

Editorial Peer Review Board

• Marion Thain (King's College London; lead for the Michael Field archive)
• Ana Parejo Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K.)
• Sharon Bickle (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
• Kirsty Bunting (Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.)
• Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, University of Oxford, U.K.)
• Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter, U.K.)
• Emily Harrington (University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.)
• Holly Laird (University of Tulsa, U.S.A.)
• Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London, U.K.)
• Sarah Parker (Loughborough University, U.K.)
• Joanne Shattock (University of Leicester, U.K.)
• Martha Vicinus (University of Michigan, U.S.A.)

Volume Leads

• 1868-69: Peter Logan (Zooniverse transcription)
• 1888-89: Ana Vadillo (finished, but in need of reformatting)
• 1890: Holly Laird (to be completed by the end of 2021)
• 1891: Frankie Dytor (confirmed; to be completed by the end of 2021)
• 1892: Frankie Dytor (confirmed; to be completed by the end of 2021)
• 1893: Renata Kobetts Miller (confirmed; to be completed by the end of 2021)
• 1894: Sharon Bickle (confirmed; to be completed by June 2021)
• January to October 1895: fully transcribed by Henri Locard.
• October to December 1895: fully transcribed by Henri Locard.
• 1896: Peter Logan (Zooniverse transcription)
• 1897: Carolyn Dever provisionally (by end of 2021).
• 1898: Diana Rose Newby (confirmed; to be completed by end of 2021 at the latest)
• 1899: Carolyn Dever (to be completed by summer 2021).
• 1900: Dennis Denisoff (confirmed; to be completed by end of 2021)
• 1901: Alex Murray (confirmed; to be completed by end of summer 2021)
• 1902: Tara Thomas (confirmed; to be completed by June 2021)
• 1903: Heather Bozant (completed and awaiting encoding)
• 1904: Pearl Chaozon Bauer (first half — completed and published); Sarah Kersh (second half — to be confirmed)
• 1905: Peter Logan (Zooniverse transcription)
• 1906: Cherrie Kwok and Sarah Parker (first half); Elizabeth Anne TeVault (second half) (Holly to complete whole vol. by end of Jan 2021)
• 1907: Andrea Gazzaniga (completed and in process of finalizing the encoding)
• 1908: Holly Laird (complete and published)
• 1909: Olivia DeClark (confirmed; to be completed by August 2021)
• 1910: Olivia Moy (confirmed; to be completed by May 2021)
• 1911: Jill Ehnenn (confirmed; to be completed by end 2021)
• 1912: Sharon Bickle (confirmed; to be completed by April 2021)
• 1913: Nicole Cote and Sarah Parker (to be confirmed)
• 1914: Sarah Kersh (to be confirmed)
• Vol. 29B (loose-leaf materials): Peter Logan (Zooniverse transcription)