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Marian Aguiar Editor

Marian Aguiar is Associate Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.  She is the author of Tracking Modernity: India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility (2011) and Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora (2018).

Charlotte Mathieson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (2015).

Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. She is also Director for the Humanities at Lancaster’s Centre for Mobilities Research [CeMoRe].Her recent mobilities publications include Drivetime (2016) and Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse (Palgrave 2019).