Amy Stewart is a writer and PhD student based in York. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at York St John University in 2019, for which she won the annual Programme Prize. Her PhD at the University of Sheffield is centred around female circus artists and the carnivalesque. She was shortlisted for the Mairtín Crawford Short Story Prize in 2021 and received a Highly Commended Award in the 2019 Bridport Prize. Amy’s work can be found in The York Journal, Aurora Journal, Bandit Fiction and Ellipsis Zine, as well as the upcoming Test Signal anthology from Bloomsbury and DeadInk Books (July 2021).

Christopher Wells is a PhD student in the School of English at Sheffield and Co-Editor at Queerlings Magazine. He completed his M.Res in Literature at Northumbria University before qualifying with a PGCE in primary teaching at Cumbria. Having worked as a teacher for a number of years he is now currently working towards his PhD in the School of English at Sheffield University. His thesis explores the intersections of bisexuality, biracial and non-binary subjectivity in the work of male modernist writers. He has been published in The Open Library of Humanities, The Modernist Review, The Journal of Bisexuality and has a chapter on ‘Ageing and Bisexuality’ an edited collection with Bristol University Press. He is also preparing a monograph proposal on James Joyce and Bisexuality with Edinburgh University Press. He is still, after 15 years, trying to reduce his coffee consumption. Twitter: @Christo96063642

Starlina Rose is a PhD student researching dialect in literature at the University of Sheffield. She completed an MA in English Literature with a focus on Linguistics at North Carolina State University in 2019. Her current WRoCAH-funded research project at the University of Sheffield examines dialects from the perspective of female writers in the Minerva Press canon, between 1790-1820. She has been published in The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Culture. She moved countries and started a PhD in the middle of a pandemic, and is looking forward to the creeping return to normalcy, and in-person conferences.

Rosalind Crocker is a doctoral researcher in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, funded by the AHRC through WRoCAH. Her thesis looks at depictions of the ‘medical man’ in neo-Victorian fiction, and his place in modern and historical narratives of clinical practice. Her research is also concerned with autopathography, epidemics and contagion in literature of the Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. She is the co-organiser of Sheffield Gothic and the co-founder of the White Rose Medical Humanities Reading Group. She is a graduate of Cardiff and Durham Universities.

Victoria Worthington explores the role that country houses can play in bridging current educational gaps as part of a WRoCAH-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award undertaken with the Devonshire Educational Trust. Training initially as an archaeologist and then as a teacher, her research is underpinned by her personal experiences working within a National Curriculum that outlines what most be taught and when. Alongside her PhD, she continues to support teaching and learning as a member of the Academic Skills Centre team at the University of Sheffield.