Professor Rosalind Smith is Chair of English and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at ANU, and lead investigator on the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1530-1660 (FT180100371). She has published widely on early modern women’s writing, and her books include Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Gender, the co-authored Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint, and the co-edited collections Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing, Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics and Early Modern Women’s English Marginalia. Her digital projects include the award-winning Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry Index https://cems.anu.edu.au/complaintindex/ (DP170103439) and the Beyond the Book digital exhibition https://beyondthebook.slv.vic.gov.au, developed in collaboration with State Library Victoria (LP180100704). She is general editor, with Professor Sarah Ross, of Parergon, and, with Associate Professor Trisha Pender, of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing.

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Dr Jake Arthur is a New Zealand-based teacher and researcher. He gained his DPhil at Oxford, supported by the Clarendon Fund. His thesis is entitled ‘”The stuffe not ours”: the work of derivation in women’s writing’; it examines early modern women’s work in translation and paraphrase and seeks to reclaim the expressive and intellectual possibilities of ‘derivative’ works. He is co-editor on the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, with Sarah C. E. Ross. He has recently published on early modern poets Anne Lock and Katherine Philips, and on translator Margaret Tyler. He works as a researcher on the ARC-funded project ‘Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1530-1660’, and previously on the ARC-Marsden Grant funded project, ‘Woe is me:’ Women and Complaint in the English Renaissance. He is also a poet, with two published collections, A Lack of Good Sons (2023) and Tarot (2024).

Jesse Newman is a designer working across Systemic Design, Participatory Design and Interaction Design. He has a Bachelor of Design (Hons) from ANU, and is a PhD candidate and a UX/UI Designer Research Assistant at the ANU School of Art and Design, and a Senior Service Designer for Canberra Health Services. He is the recipient of the University Medal in 2023 and his Honours year project was developing the database The Library of Early Modern Women’s Marginalia, 1530-1680, under the supervision of Professor Mitchell Whitelaw. Before working in design, Jesse spent over 10 years in the engineering and electrical industry managing projects and working closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams. Most of Jesse's experience is in digital and information interfaces and organizational systems, but he also has a strong background in visual communication, with a particular love for layout and typography. For Jesse, design starts with understanding how people use technology in their daily work, identifying what works, what doesn’t, and where the real opportunities are, then redesigning both the technology and how people interact with it. This often leads to new ways for teams to work together and communicate more effectively.

Dr Christina Clarke is an art historian and practicing metalsmith whose research centres on historical and archaeological metal material culture, with a specific focus on pre-industrial artisanal processes involved in the production of metal items. Her research is methodologically interdisciplinary, incorporating artisanal practice, archaeological and archival materials, material culture approaches and digital humanities. Christina is a researcher on the ARC-funded project ‘Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1530-1660’ and previously on ARC-funded ’Performing Transdisciplinarity,’ a project to create a digital critical edition of Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s 1774 illustrated songbook, Choix de chansons. Christina has recently published on digital humanities methodology, Louis XIV’s silver furniture and the production of medals under Louis XIV. Her monograph, The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice, was published in 2013 by Astrom Editions.