Gretchen E. Henderson is Spence L. Wilson Professor in the Humanities at Rhodes College. She is a cultural historian, environmental artist, literary critic, novelist and librettist. Her previous books include Galerie de difformité (2011), On Marvellous Things Heard (2011) and The House Enters the Street (2012).
Michael Johns worked in San Francisco for a year as a bicycle messenger and fell in love with the city. Ten years later he began a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz (1997), Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s (2003) and The Education of a Radical: An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua (2012). He lives in San Francisco.
Klaus Reinhardt is Professor of Applied Zoology at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, and Fellow and former Vice President of the Royal Entomological Society of London. He has worked on the biology of bedbugs for fifteen years and is also author and editor of Literarische Wanzen (Literary Bugs).
Jane Desmarais is Senior Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her publications include Decadence and the Senses (with Alice Condé, 2017) and Arthur Symons: Selected Early Poems (with Chris Baldick, 2017).
J. Malcolm Shick is Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Oceanography at the University of Maine, where he conducted research and taught for forty years. Some of his early scientific works were synthesized with the wider literature in his first book, A Functional Biology of Sea Anemones (1981).
Roger Bartra is Emeritus Researcher at Mexico’s National Autonomous University and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. His publications include Anthropology of the Brain (2014) and The Imaginary Networks of Political Power (2013).
Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham. He performs in the noise band Safe, and his previous publications include Noise/Music: A History (2007) and Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art (2015).
Alberto A. Martínez is Professor of History of Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (2009), Science Secrets: The Truth About Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (2011) and The Cult of Pythagoras (2012).
Martin Arnold is Reader Emeritus in Old Northern Studies at the University of Hull. His books include The Vikings: Culture and Conquest (2006) and Thor: Myth to Marvel (2012).
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His previous books include a co-authored volume, The Scramble for the Poles (2016).