Laura Green is Professor at Northeastern University in the department of English and in the Women’s Gender, and Sexuality studies program. She has been at Northeastern and in Boston since 2001. Her disciplinary specialty and first love is Victorian (British 19th century) literature, particularly novels, particularly by and about women. She has published two books on women as readers, writers, and subjects of novels: Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature and Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga. Currently she serves in the Dean’s office of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities as Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning.

Charles J. Rzepka is a Professor Emeritus of English at Boston University, where he taught courses in British Romanticism and detective and crime fiction. In addition to Detection: A Cultural History (2005), the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction (2010), and Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard (Johns Hopkins 2013, available in paperback), he’s written numerous essays on authors of crime and detective fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Derr Biggers, creator of Charlie Chan.