Dr Rachele Dini studied at Cambridge, King’s College London and University College London. Much of her current work focuses on the representation of production and consumption in modern and contemporary Anglo-American fiction. She teaches at Cambridge and for the Foundation for International Education, and her first monograph, Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.

Dr Chiara Briganti is a London-based writer and academic. She was a professor of English Literature and Gender Studies at Carleton College, Minnesota (USA) for many years, and is now a visiting research fellow at King's College London. Her research ranges from the literature of the Victorian period to the 1970s, with a particular focus on Charles Dickens, British Modernism, domestic fiction, and British women's fiction of the interwar period. Dr Briganti is the author of Anche tu, figlia mia: Figlie e padri nelle letterature anglofone (Quattro Venti, 1995), and co-author, together with Kathy Mezei, of Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young (Ashgate, 2006), and The Domestic Space Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2013). She is currently editing an essay collection on bedsits and boarding houses in the British literary imagination (Bloomsbury, 2018).