Galia Benziman (Chair) is an Alon Fellow (2011-2014) and Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Herresearch focuses on British literature of the long nineteenth century; in particular, on Dickens, Hardy, the history of childhood, and the Elegy. She has published two books: Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture (2012, Palgrave Macmillan) and Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry: Codes of Bereavement (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). Her essays appeared in Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in the Novel, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, and other platforms.