Anna Auguscik teaches English Literature at the University of Oldenburg. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the Fiction Meets Science research group. Her research interests include the novel in the literary marketplace, the history and current state of reviewing and criticism, expedition narratives, and the relationship between literature and science.

Simone Broders teaches English Literature at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her particular research interests incorporate eighteenth-century literature and culture, contemporary writing, and the Digital Humanities. She is the author of The Age of Curiosity: The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Habilitation), published in the Anglia book series by De Gruyter in 2021.