Jason Rosenfeld is Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York. His academic interests include British art, specifically Victorian, modern architecture, and contemporary art. He was a co-curator of the exhibition, The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print at the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (1995), and contributed to the Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2003). He co-curated Millais at Tate Britain, London, which travelled to Amsterdam, Fukuoka and Tokyo (2007–9), and was co-curator of the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-garde at Tate Britain, London (2012).

Jason Tougaw is a writer, literature professor, and DJ who lives between New York City and the Catsksills. He’s currently finishing a memoir, The One You Get, a portrait of the artist and his family as social and biological organisms learning how to live. “Aplysia californica,” an excerpt from the memoir, is published in Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing up(Da Capo Press). Tougaw is also the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge) and editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (University of Illinois Press). He has published essays in a/b: Autobiography Studies, JAC, The Scholar and the Feminist, and Feed magazine. He teaches literature and writing at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. You can hear his weekly radio show, “The Mixtape,” on 90.5 WJFF Radio Catskill.