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).
Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius is an independent art historian based in Berlin.
Kirk Curnutt is Professor and Chair of English at Troy University, Alabama. His most recent books include Reading Hemingway’s ‘To Have and Have Not’ (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 (2018).
John Sutherland, the Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, is a much-published author and journalist and a familiar figure in the literary world. He has long had the wish to write on boxing, the most hurtful sport, and what it has come to mean in his own lifetime.