Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent. His many books include Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2018).

Luigi Amara is the author of many poetry collections, essays and children’s books, including Nu)n(ca (winner of the International Poetry Prize in Spanish), and The School of Boredom.

Robin Milner-Gulland is Emeritus Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Sussex, and an eminent translator, author and editor of works on Russian topics. He is the author of Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (2nd edn, 2002), The Russians: The Peoples of Europe (1997) and Patterns of Russia: History, Culture, Spaces (Reaktion, 2020), and translator of Icon and Devotion (Reaktion, 2002).

Ged Pope specializes in cultural studies and London history and culture, and currently teaches at IES Study Abroad in Bloomsbury.

Satish Padiyar is Honorary Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art. His previous publications include Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France (2007).

Jeanne Nuechterlein is Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of York. She is the author of Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric (2011) and Deputy Editor of the journal Art History.

Stephen Bann is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is author of many books including Romanticism and the Rise of History (1995), Paul Delaroche: History Painted (Reaktion, 1997) and Jannis Kounellis (Reaktion, 2003).

Timon Screech is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many books, including Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700–1820 (2nd edn, Reaktion, 2009).

Nathalie Dietschy is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the editor of Jésus en représentations (2011) and Le Christ réenvisagé (2016).