Margaretta S Frederick is currently Curator Emerita, Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection, Delaware Art Museum, and an Independent Art Historian. Over her decades-long tenure at the Delaware Art Museum, Dr. Frederick placed the Bancroft Collection on an international footing, initiating and enabling national and international partnerships and exhibitions and promoting the work of female artists in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. She has curated exhibitions on the work of May Morris, Marie Spartali Stillman and William and Evelyn De Morgan among others. She is currently working on a collaborative project to collect, annotate and publish the correspondence of May Morris.

Imogen Hart is a Teaching Fellow in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. Previously, she worked at the Yale Center for British Art (2007–2013) and taught at the University of California, Berkeley (2013–2022). Her book Arts and Crafts Objects (Manchester University Press, 2010) includes two chapters on William Morris: “The homes of William Morris” and “Objects at Morris & Co.” She is co-editor, with Jason Edwards, of Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867–1896: Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts (Ashgate, 2010), which features her chapter “An ‘enchanted interior’: William Morris at Kelmscott House.” She has contributed chapters on William Morris to William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life, edited by Wendy Parkins (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010); The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites, edited by Elizabeth Prettejohn (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism, edited by Lee Glazer and Linda Merrill (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013); and Teaching William Morris, edited by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Jason D. Martinek (Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2019). Her article “May Morris, Dorothy Walker, and the Legacies of the Arts and Crafts Interior” appeared in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of Interior Design. Imogen is currently working with Thomas Cooper on a co-edited book, Critical Histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.

Victoria received her PhD from Yale University in History of Art in 2024 and is Project Specialist in the Yale Center for British Art’s Publications Department. She was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the YCBA’s Department of Paintings and Sculpture. A historian of nineteenth-century British art, her doctoral dissertation focused on the art of the Scottish painter, poet, illustrator, and educator William Bell Scott (1811-1890). She is currently writing a forthcoming article about the stained-glass windows Scott produced for the South Kensington Museum’s ceramic gallery. In 2017, she contributed an essay on the Kelmscott Press to the publication William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She was co-curator of Unto this Last: Two-Hundred Years of John Ruskin, on view at the Yale Center for British Art in September 2019 and at the Watts Gallery (UK) in 2020. She co-authored the accompanying exhibition catalogue, published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press. She was the recipient in 2021 of the Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies at the Delaware Art Museum.

David is a Life Member of the William Morris Society, having first joined in 2014. He was awarded a a Litt.D. from Drew University in Medieval Studies in 2012. He is a retired entrepreneur and an adjunct professor of Arts and Letters at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. His interest in William Morris stems principally from his research and writings on the history of the Gothic Revival in the U.K. and U.S. and its legacy in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Since joining WMS-US, David has contributed several articles to the Journal of William Morris Studies and Useful and Beautiful. He is also actively engaged in architectural preservation as a lecturer and advocate, and is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the U.S. and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) in the U.K. In addition, David is an organist and organ historian, and his research has been published in The Tracker, the journal of the Organ Historical Society.

Collector, bibliographer, and typographer Mark Samuels Lasner is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. His interest in, and admiration for, William Morris began almost in childhood—growing up in an Arts and Crafts house and having met the last living person to have known Morris and Burne-Jones.

Mark has published widely on Victorian literature and art and has organized many exhibitions related to these subjects. In 1996 he co-curated with William S. Peterson “William Morris: The Collector as Creator” mounted by the Grolier Club to mark the centenary of Morris’s death. From 1999 to 2004 he served, variously, as the newsletter editor, webmaster, secretary-treasurer, and eventually president of the William Morris Society in the United States. The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, donated to the University of Delaware in 2016, contains artwork, letters, manuscripts, and printed materials by Morris and his circle.

A retired New York attorney (JD, Duke, 1974; BA, Claremont McKenna College, 1971) living in Montclair, NJ, David specialized in representing nonprofit organizations. He has long had an interest in William Morris, dating back to college in the 1970s when a biography of Morris fell on his head in the Scripps College library. On a business trip to London as a young lawyer, he visited Morris’s boyhood home in Walthamstow. He is a major book and design collector, specializing in world-wide graphic arts of the period 1890-1930, with a major collection of private presses (including Kelmscotts) and other good design of that era, and the bulk of his furniture and furnishings also date to that era.

He has served on the board of The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in Parsippany, New Jersey, the home of Gustav Stickley in the 1910s, as a trustee or trustee emeritus since the year of the museum’s formation in 1989, where he curated the exhibits William Morris and the Printed Page: English Influence on American Book Design; C. R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft: An English View of the Craftsman Ideal; and Will Bradley: His Look. He has also served on the board of The Center for Book Arts and The American Friends of Arts & Crafts in Chipping Campden, a support organization for a UK museum focused on C. R. Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft and other Cotswold artists.

Caroline is a curatorial research associate at the High Museum of Art, supporting projects with a range of expertise from the long nineteenth century to contemporary art. She has published on Mary Seton Watts and Phoebe Anna Traquair, and is currently researching intersections of the Arts and Crafts Movement and fiber arts in Joseon-dynasty Korea. As the 2020 Alfred Appel, Jr. Curatorial Fellow at the Delaware Art Museum, Caroline curated the exhibition Collecting and Connecting: Recent Acquisitions, 2010–2020 (2021) and was the research assistant for the international touring exhibition Evelyn and William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts and Crafts (2022). Caroline received an MA in art history from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020 and has held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the SCAD Museum of Art. She co-founded and edited Tesserae Press, an online arts publication for emerging scholars, and is an alumna of the 2019 Victorian Society in America London Summer School.

Tracy Meserve is the librarian for the Arthur D. Jenkins Library at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. She also acts as the associate editor of The Textile Museum Journal. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Decorative Arts and Design History from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University, with a focus on textile arts. She holds a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Maryland (2013).  Formerly, she has served as a youth services manager at Alexandria Library, a librarian at DC Public Library, and a publications assistant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

An instructor at Loyola University Chicago and Rush University, Brandiann researches 19th-century visual culture and word/image theory. Her dissertation, completed in 2018, focuses on the Kelmscott Press and Morris’s contribution to Victorian aesthetics. She is also a founding member of the Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society, and in that capacity, Molby has organized their annual conference for the past three years.

Jude is Professor of English and former Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Salem State University, and habilitated professor in the Polish Academy. His areas of teaching and research are Victorian literature and culture and Anglophone Caribbean literature. He has published extensively on the Victorians, especially on Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Dickens, appearing in journals such as Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, the Carlyle Studies Annual, the Dickens Studies Annual, Times Literary Supplement, the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Texas Study in Literature and Language, Modern Philology, and the Hopkins Quarterly.

He is author/editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins and his Contemporaries: Liddon, Newman, Darwin, and Pater (Garland, 1994), Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism (Palgrave, 2004), Science, Religion, and Natural Theology.  Volume 3. Victorian and Science and Literature. 8 volumes (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), The Sermons and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Vol. 5. The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. 8 vols. (Oxford, 2018), and editor of the forthcoming volume, Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational (Vernon 2021), where his essay appears, “‘[E]ither I’m nobody, or I’m a nation’: Home, History, and the Diasporic Transnational in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.” He is also Guest Editor of a Special Issue, The Poetry and Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Religion and the Arts 24.4 (2018), in which his essay appears: “‘[E]ye and heart alive to the natural beauty of the world’: Anne Pratt, Hopkins, and a Theology of Nature.” His most recent publications include “‘English affairs and Norse’: Carlyle’s Igdrasil, Norse Mythology, and the Myth of British Racial Ancestry,” appeared in the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (2018), “Welch Israelitism: The Geopiety of Hopkins’s St. Beuno’s Dominical” (forthcoming, The Hopkins Quarterly), and “Forbidden Fruit: The Economy of Food in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market” (forthcoming, AngloSophia). He serves on several editorial boards, among them Victorian Poetry, The Hopkins Quarterly, the Dickens Studies Annual, MIND (Poland), Merope (Italy), and AngloSophia – Studies in English Literature and Culture (Italy).

Jennifer is a doctoral candidate in English literature at Cornell University. She will defend her dissertation, which focuses on preservation and temporality in Victorian literary and material culture, in the summer of 2024. Her scholarly interests lie in nineteenth-century British literature, book history, reading practices, and visual and material culture. Her work on William Morris draws together his literary and political writings, his experiments with book arts (manuscripts and print), and his approach to cultural heritage—manifested in his book collecting practices and his efforts on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Alongside Morris’s own investments in preservation, she is interested in the ways that Morris’s works are preserved today, both in archival spaces and in popular and consumer culture. In addition to receiving the William Morris Society Award in 2021, Jennifer has held fellowships at The Huntington Library, the John Rylands Institute and Library at The University of Manchester, and Merton College, Oxford. She holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Oxford, and Cornell University. 

Ana is a bilingual assistant case manager at C&T Home care agency, located in New York City (Teleworking), where she is responsible for tracking enrollment processes and approved cases with insurance companies. Ana is Peruvian and lives in Barcelona and she is passionate about literature and painting. Her first approach to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was Dante Gabriel Rossetti whose designs stand as a link between the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and William Morris’s Arts and Crafts movement. In 2020, she created a private group on Facebook and named it “William Morris.” A wide variety of topics are explored: block-printed fabric and wallpaper design, literature, interior design, handcraft, stained glass windows, the Red House, the Morris family and their close circle, etc. All the information is collected from books and from verified sources; members are allowed to share posts and pictures (they are keen on wallpapers and fabrics). The number of members has been growing since then, and now, there are more than 16,000 members.

Jesse holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is assistant professor of English at Gettysburg College, where she teaches long-nineteenth-century British and global Anglophone literature. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of close reading and the rise of “critical thinking” as a popular ideal. Her research has appeared in PMLA, ELH (English Literary History), Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, The Victorian Periodicals Review, and Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (among other forums). Her work examines important aesthetic and sociopolitical influences on William Morris, as well as the laborers whose lives and educations were one of Morris’s central concerns.

Adrienne works at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. She earned her B.A. in art history and English from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. in decorative arts and design history from the Bard Graduate Center in NYC. Her research focus on Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites – first, on the Oxford Union Murals – led her to participate in the UMASS-Amherst Oxford Summer Seminar, a 6-week summer study abroad program in Oxford, England. Her M.A. thesis was a case study of Morris & Company’s contributions to three American commissions, c. 1870-1896. She has published in “The Journal of the Women’s College Art Coalition,” an MHC student publication; “The Newsletter of the Victorian Society in America”; “The Pre-Raphaelite Society Newsletter of the United States”; and she contributed an article about a Walter Crane mural to an online blog at the Beinecke. She is a Co-Scribe for Mount Holyoke’s Class of 1998, regularly contributing updates to the MHC “Alumnae Quarterly.” Adrienne lives in Hamden, CT with her husband Kurt and her daughter Evelyn (Evey).