Lisa Z. Sigel is Professor of History at DePaul University, Chicago. She has a well-established publication record in the histories of pornography and sexuality.

Kathleen Lubey is Professor of English at St. John's University, where she teaches courses on eighteenth-century literature, culture, sexuality, feminism, and race; queer studies, feminist theory, and the history of sexuality; and literary theory and research methods.

Sarah Bull is Assistant Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Her work on the nineteenth-century pornography trade and its relationship with science and medicine has been published in a variety of venues, including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Book History, History of the Human Sciences, Victorian Review, and Porn Studies.

Colette Colligan is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her recent work on pornographic writing has appeared in Victorian Studies, Book History, Histoires Littéraires, and the Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature.