Irene Gammel, FRSC, is a professor of art, literature, and culture and the director of the Modern Literature and Culture (MLC) Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research explores life writing, trauma narratives, modern literature and visual culture, and the performance of self in public. She is the author and editor of 15 books, including Looking for Anne of Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery and Her Timeless Heroine (2025), I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton (2020), and Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity (2002), and the winner of the C. P. Stacey Award. She has coedited many books including Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2022). Her work investigates how individuals narrate personal and collective histories in times of crisis and cultural change.

Jason Wang's research explores how modernist and contemporary literature and media encode power, politics, and social values. His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Urban Walking: Configuring the Modern City as Cultural and Spatial Practice," explored the aesthetics of spatial politics and the politics of spatial aesthetics in urban literature and culture from the early twentieth century to the postindustrial period. He is the co-editor of Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2022). He has contributed chapters to Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism (2019) and Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature (2017) as well as the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Wang is a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Fashion.