Nicoletta Asciuto is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York, where she has taught since 2016. She is a Comparative Modernist scholar and a linguist with knowledge of ten languages. Asciuto was the recipient of a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) in 2015-16. She has also tutored and lectured extensively at Durham University for both the English and Italian departments, as well as for the MA in Translation Studies.

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Ria Banerjee is a Professor of English at CUNY Graduate Center and Guttman Community College. She is the author of Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics (Palgrave 2024) and has published essays in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, ELN, the Eliot Studies Annual, and elsewhere. Read more about her work here.

Executive Director of the Summer School since 2018, Anthony Cuda is Professor and Associate Head of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is author of The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann (2010) and co-editor of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, Vol. 2: The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926 (2014), and he is managing editor of the digital edition of The Complete Prose. He is Secretary of the International T. S. Eliot Society. Read more about his work here.

Sara Fitzgerald is a retired journalist and author of The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime, recognized by The Washington Post as one of its “Fifty Notable Non-fiction Works of 2024.” Her essays have appeared in multiple volumes of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual and the Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (U.K.), as well as the forthcoming Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s-1950s). She is also the author of The Poet’s Girl, a novel based on the Hale-Eliot relationship, Elly Peterson: ‘Mother’ of the Moderates, recognized by the Library of Michigan as a Notable Book of 2012, and Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX. She has spoken at annual conferences of the Modern Language Association, the American Historical Association, the American Literature Association, the International T. S. Eliot Society, and the South Atlantic and Midwest Modern Language Associations. She holds a B.A. in history and journalism from the University of Michigan. See www.sarafitzgerald.com.

Mark Ford is the author of four collections of poetry: Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992), Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001), Six Children (Faber & Faber, 2011), and Enter, Fleeing (Faber & Faber, 2018), as well as a Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2016). He has also published three monographs, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2000), Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner (Harvard University Press, 2016), and Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2023). His essays have been collected in four volumes, the most recent of which is A Guest Among Stars: Essays on Twentieth-Century Poets (Black Spring, 2024). This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (Eyewear, 2014), was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Other publications include translations of Raymond Roussel’s long poem New Impressions of Africa (Princeton University Press, 2011), of Roussel’s short stories (The Alley of Fireflies, The Song Cave, 2018) and the poetry of Jules Laforgue (Lunar Solo: Selected Poems, The Song Cave, 2023). He has also published editions of the poetry of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Mick Imlah, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as an 800-page anthology London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012). He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. A selection of his poetry is available at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/mark-ford; and his ongoing series of podcasts on poetry (made with Seamus Perry) is available on the London Review of Books website https://www.lrb.co.uk.

Sarah Kennedy is the RJ Owens Fellow in English and a College Associate Professor at Downing College. Her 2018 book T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination (Cambridge University Press) on metaphor and the imagination in the work of T. S. Eliot follows in the tradition of histories of the Romantic and Victorian poetics of originality, but focuses on the twentieth-century legacy of those histories and their interrelation with parallel fields of knowledge. It charts the relations between metaphor and creativity in Eliot’s poetry and criticism through their affinities with discursive developments in ‘new physics’, optics, colour theory, psychology, and anthropology. She is currently writing a contemporary novel as well as working on a revisionist close reading primer called The Shadow on the Page: A Field Guide to Close Reading. A further project is tentatively titled The Self Made Strange: Landscape and Self-Estrangement in Postwar Lyric Poetry. 

Patrick Query is the president of the International T. S. Eliot Society and the author, most recently, of Freedom Is Not Enough: T. S. Eliot for Liberation, Resistance, and Hope (SUNY Press, 2024). His other books include Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing (Ashgate, 2012) and an edition of A Tourist in Africa for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh (Oxford, 2021). He has published articles and chapters on Eliot, Waugh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and others. He is a Professor of English the U. S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and teaches and volunteers in area prisons for the Bard Prison Initiative.

Kevin Rulo is an Assistant Professor of English at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and currently serves as co-editor of the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. He is the author of Satiric Modernism (2021). His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the T.S. Eliot Studies Annual, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Review of English Studies, and Neohelicon, among other venues

Vincent Sherry is Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St Louis. His books include The Uncommon Tongue: The Poetry and Criticism of Geoffrey Hill (1987), Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism (1993), Joyce’s ULYSSES (1995), The Great War and the Language of Modernism (2003), Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence (2015), and, as editor, the Cambridge History of Modernism (2017). He is currently writing The European War of 1914-1918: A History in Literature.

Michelle A. Taylor is the Armstrong T. S. Eliot Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She received her PhD in English from Harvard in 2021, and has since held postdoctoral fellowships at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she was the Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow, and Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She has published essays and articles in, among other venues, College Literature, Modernist Cultures, The Point, FT Magazine, and The New Yorker. Her projects in progress include Clique Lit: Coterie Culture and the Making of Modernism and T. S. Eliot, Translation, and the World Stage. 

Aakanksha Virkar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Researching late nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and the arts, she is presently a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2024-2025) working on the project ’T. S. Eliot and Beethoven: Aesthetics, Music and Politics 1870-1945’. She has published pieces on Eliot in journals including the Journal of Modern Literature, T. S. Eliot Studies Annual and Philosophy and Literature, and also in The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Arts (2024).