Barbara K. Seeber is Associate Professor of English at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she teaches courses on Austen, eighteenth-century literature, and Animal Studies. She is author of General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism (2000).

Kathleen James-Cavan (email: kathleen.james-cavan@usask.ca) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Saskatchewan and M.Div. candidate at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon.  She edited Sense and Sensibility for Broadview Press and William Hay’s Deformity: An Essay for English Literary Studies.  She publishes on Austen and on disability culture in eighteenth-century British literature.