Renée Fox is Assistant Professor of Literature, Co-Director of the Dickens Project, and Co-Director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature (The Ohio State University Press, 2023) and co-editor (with Mike Cronin and Brian O’Conchubhair) of The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (Routledge 2021). Her published work has appeared in such journals as Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Irish University Review, and New Hibernia Review, as well as in several edited volumes and critical editions.