Brian Reinken is a researcher, writer, podcaster, and university lecturer. In 2023, he earned his Ph.D. in English literature at Rutgers University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Victorian literature and the British Empire titled titled Future States: Imperial Violence and Nonlinear Time in Late-Victorian Fiction. He has taught college courses on these subjects, and his scholarship on them has appeared in Victorian Review, ELH, and Victorian Literature and Culture.