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Judith P. Saunders ([email protected]) is professor of English at Marist College in New York State. Her published commentary encompasses a wide range of literary figures (e.g. Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, May Swenson) and she is the author of a book-length study of the British poet Charles Tomlinson. She has undertaken evolutionary analysis of work by a variety of authors (e.g. Benjamin Franklin, Sherwood Anderson, Zora Neale Hurston, D. H. Lawrence), most recently in her book, Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in her Fiction.

Victoria Ingalls (victoria.ingalls @marist.edu) is professor of biology at Marist College in New York State. Specializing in behavioral ecology and sociobiology, she teaches courses in evolution and animal behavior. She has published articles on predator prey relationships, the information content of birdsong and, more recently, the evolutionary analysis of fictional hero characteristics using children's fantasy literature.