Stephanie Burt is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Her many books include Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift (2025); Super Gay Poems: LGBTQ+ Poetry After Stonewall (2025); and Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (2019).

Drew Daniel is professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (2008) and Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature (2022). He is also one half of the acclaimed electronic band Matmos.

Melissa E. Sanchez is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies (2025) and the author of Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition (2019), among other books.