Pamela Bedore is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses in American literature, popular literature, and gender theory. She has published widely on genre fiction and pedagogy, including Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Palgrave, 2014), Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature (Great Courses, 2017), and The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction (Routledge, 2024). Anita Duneer is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she teaches American and global literatures. Her scholarship has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Literary Realism (2019), Studies in American Naturalism, and American Literary Realism, among other places. Her monograph, Jack London and the Sea (U of Alabama P, 2022), merges interests in literary seafaring and naturalism. She is also book review editor for Studies in American Naturalism.
