Philip Smith is the editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (MLA, 2008) and Oscar Wilde's Historical Criticism Notebook (Oxford University Press, 2016). He co-authored and co-edited Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford University Press, 1989) with Michael S. Helfand. He has also published refereed articles and invited chapters on Wilde, Constance Naden, Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Brian Aldiss, August Wilson, John Galsworthy, Charles Olson, and on issues of curriculum, staffing, and teaching in the profession of English studies. He has retired from teaching in the English Department of the University of Pittsburgh. Michael Helfand received a PhD in Modern Letters from the University of Iowa. He has taught 19th and 20th century English and American literature in the University of Pittsburgh. He co-authored and co-edited Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford University Press, 1989) with Philip Smith. He edited the Classics in American Literary Histories (8 vols.) Shanghai Foreign Education Press (1986-93). He has published essays on Victorian Psychology, Victorian Crime Fiction, T. H. Huxley, John Ruskin, Arthur Conan Doyle, and J.G. Frazer. He has been a Fulbright lecturer in China and in South Korea and served on the Fulbright nominating committees.