Ileana Baird, Ph.D. (2012), University of Virginia, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the editor of Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2020), Eighteenth-Century Social Networks: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries (CSP, 2014), and (with Christina Ionescu) Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture (Ashgate, 2014; Routledge, 2018). She has authored articles on eighteenth-century visual and material culture and digital humanities. Hülya Yağcıoğlu, Ph.D. (2015), Boğaziçi University, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the author of articles on comparative literature and material culture, including, more recently, "Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence" (Routledge, 2017) and "Bridging the Gap between People and Things: The Politics and Poetics of Collecting in Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence" (Ibidem Verlag, 2017). .
