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Gert Buelens is Professor of English and American Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University. He is also the editor of Enacting History in Henry James (1997), and co-editor of The Catastrophic Imperative (2009), The Future of Trauma Theory (2013) and The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (2019). His Henry James and the "Aliens" (2004) won the American Studies Network Book Prize. He is book review editor of the Henry James Review, and is editor-in-chief of the e-journal Authorship. He has served as President of the Henry James Society and Secretary-General of the European Association for American Studies. Susan M. Griffin was Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. She is the immediate past editor of the Henry James Review (Johns Hopkins UP), and has also authored or edited five books on James: The Art of Criticism (1986), The Historical Eye (1991), Henry James Goes to the Movies (2002), All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James (2010), and The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James & Alfred Hitchcock (2011).