Editorial Office

Nora Gilbert, Editor

Nora Gilbert is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of literary and film studies at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (Stanford UP, 2013) and Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Oxford University Press, 2023), and co-editor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (SUNY Press, 2026). She has published articles in such venues as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Screen, Public Books, and The Conversation, and is presently at work on a third monograph that is tentatively titled Unwomaned!: Classical Hollywood Stardom and the Threat of Female Independence. 

Brian Czyzyk, Managing Editor

Brian Czyzyk is a poet and educator whose work focuses on queerness, masculinity, and ecocriticism. Originally from Traverse City, Michigan, he holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas where he was a Voertman-Ardoin Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of American Literary Review. The recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Association of Writers and Writing Programs, his work can be found in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2025, Birmingham Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, and POETRY.

Ishanika Sharma, Book Review Editor

Ishanika Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas. Her areas of research and teaching interests include South Asian literatures, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and the environmental humanities. Her current project draws on insights from postcolonial theorists and psychoanalytic thinkers to examine how narratives articulate the unendingness of catastrophe in 20th-century South Asia. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in venues such as ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, MUSE India, and Research in African Literatures.