Miranda Anderson is an honorary fellow in history, Classics and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and an anniversary fellow in philosophy and literature at the University of Stirling, both in Scotland, UK. She is also an associate lecturer with the Open University, UK. She is the author of The Renaissance Extended Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and the co-editor of, most recently, Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).