Eleanor J. Hogan (email: ehogan@gettysburg.edu) is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature and Co-chair of Asian Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.  Aside from her interest in Nogami Yaeko, Jane Austen, and New Women, she is pursuing projects on representations of gender and the “other” in Japanese women’s science fiction.

Inger Sigrun Brodey (email: brodey@email.unc.edu) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also directs Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature.  She has written extensively on both Austen and Sōseki, and is interested in the history of the novel in both Europe and Japan.