Jan Verplaetse is Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Localizing the Moral Sense (2009) and co-editor of The Moral Brain (2009).
Jeremy Adler is Professor Emeritus of German and Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. He has published and edited books on many topics, including Goethe, visual poetry, Kafka, exile literature, Elias Canetti and Hölderlin. He reviews and writes for the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Andrei Zorin is Professor and Chair of Russian at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books on Russian literature and culture, including On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825: The Self-invention of the Russian Elite (2018, co-authored with Andreas Schönle).
Richard Verdi was Professor of Fine Art and Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. His many books include Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 (1995), The Parrot in Art: From Durer to Elizabeth Butterworth (2007) and Rembrandt’s Themes: Life into Art (2014).
Charlotte Sleigh is Professor of Science Humanities at the University of Kent. She has published several books on the history, culture and representation of animals including Ant (2003) and Frog (2012) for Reaktion, as well as The Paper Zoo (2016).
Mary Ginsberg has had a career in international finance, and latterly has been a curator at the British Museum, London. She is the author of The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda (2013).
A renowned specialist in the Middle Ages and member of the École des Annales, Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) was Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris. He was the author of many books including The Middle Ages Explained in Pictures (2013).
Mary D. Garrard is Professor Emerita of Art History at American University, Washington, DC. Her books include Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) and Brunelleschi’s Egg: Gender, Art and Nature in Renaissance Italy (2010).
Stephen Roberts is Associate Professor and Reader in Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the literature, film and thought of Spain.
Andrew F. Smith teaches at the New School, New York City. He is the author or editor of 32 books, including Fast Food: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry (Reaktion, 2016).