François Quiviger is a fellow of the Warburg Institute, University of London, where he previously worked as a librarian, curator of digital resources, researcher and teacher. He has written on Renaissance art theories, academies, wine, banquets and sensations.
Seth Bovey is a music writer and Professor of English at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. He is also a musician and played in several garage bands in the 1970s and early ’80s.
John B. Kachuba is an award-winning author and creative writing instructor at Gotham Writers Workshop. He has investigated over 100 haunted locations around the world and his books include Ghosthunters (2007) and the novel Dark Entry (2012).
Christopher E. Forth is the Dean’s Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Kansas, and the author of several books including Masculinity in the Modern West (2008).
Steven Connor is Professor of English and Director of Research of the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College London. He is the author of more than twenty books including The Madness of Knowledge (2019) and Dreamwork (2023), both published by Reaktion Books.
Linda Simon is Professor Emerita of English at Skidmore College, New York. Her many books include Coco Chanel (Reaktion, 2011) and Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper (Reaktion, 2014).
Elizabeth Semmelhack is Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto. She is the author of Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (2015) and Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe (2008).
Roger Luckhurst lives in a post-war utopian social housing estate in inner London and teaches at Birkbeck College, where he is Professor of Modern Literature in the School of Arts. He is the author of Zombies (Reaktion, 2015), and wrote the BFI Classics on Alien and The Shining.
Patrick H. Armstrong taught Geography and Ecology at the University of Western Australia for 28 years. He has written widely on the life and work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, including Alfred Russel Wallace (Reaktion, 2019).
Mark Berry is Reader in Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s ‘Ring’ (2016) and After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from ‘Parsifal’ to Nono (2014). He also regularly reviews concert and opera performances for his popular blog, Boulezian.