Charlotte Cooper-Davis is a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Christine de Pizan: Empowering Women in Text and Image and lives in Cambridgeshire.
Lesley Chamberlain, a novelist and historian of ideas, lived and worked in Communist Russia and has been writing about Russian history and culture for forty years. Her books include Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia (2004) and The Philosophy Steamer (2006). She lives in London.
Vadim S. Jigoulov is a Lecturer at Morgan State University and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA. He is the author of The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires (2014).
William Barker is Inglis Professor and former president of the University of King’s College and Emeritus Professor of English, Dalhousie University. He has edited a selection of Erasmus’ Adages and co-edited the introductory volume of the Adages for the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus.
Lydia Pyne is an affiliate researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her previous books include Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Can Teach Us About Real Stuff (2019).
Malcolm Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent, and was for 30 years the Editor of The Dickensian. He is the author of many books including Landscape and Western Art (1999).
Tijl Vanneste is a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is author of Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants (2011).
Michael C. Finke is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author or editor of many books on Chekhov including Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art (2005).
Ana Debenedetti is Director of the Bemberg Foundation (Toulouse, France), and former Curator of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has published on Renaissance art, philosophy and poetry.
Paul van Reyk is a food writer living in Sydney, Australia. He is a regular presenter at the Symposium of Australian Gastronomy.