Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir teaches folkloristics at the University of Iceland and has published widely in the field of Icelandic folk legends.
Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius is an independent art historian based in Berlin.
Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain (2017) and Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain (2023).
Felicity Henderson is Senior Lecturer in Archives and Material Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Robert Hooke and the early Royal Society, and she is currently preparing a new edition of Hooke’s diaries for Oxford University Press.
Stephen Harrison is Lecturer in Ancient History at Swansea University.
John Goodby is Professor of Arts and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University. The leading authority on Dylan Thomas, he has written extensively on his work and edited his Collected Poems (2014).
Cosima Clara Gillhammer is Career Development Fellow in English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She teaches and researches medieval literature, culture and liturgy. Her books include A Late-Medieval History of the Ancient and Biblical World (2022).
Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2021).
Delia Cortese is Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University, London, and is affiliated to the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She has published extensively on the Fatimids and medieval Ismailism and her books include Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam (with Simonetta Calderini, 2006).
Nathalie Cooke is Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her books include Canadian Literary Fare (with Shelley Boyd, 2023), winner of the 2024 Gabrielle Roy Prize, and What’s to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History (2009).