Linda Zionkowski (email: zionkows@ohio.edu) is Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches eighteenth-century literature.  Her most recent publication is Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Burney, Austen (2016).

Mimi Hart pursued her Ph.D. at Ohio University after twenty years of touring as a singer, recording with the Allman Brothers as well as with her group, The Local Girls; she has performed at the White House, on A Prairie Home Companion, and elsewhere. Her dissertation, “Hardly an Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen,” included the first complete photographic archiving of Austen’s songbooks.