Machtelt Brüggen Israëls is Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of Florence. Her previous publications include The Berenson Collection (2015).

Ole M. Høystad is Professor of Cultural Studies at Telemark University College in Norway, and currently Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies and History at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.

Jane Hamlett is a Professor of Modern British History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and her books include Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850–1910 (2010).

James Hannam is the author of God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (2009). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and lives in Kent.

Niccolò Guicciardini teaches history of science at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is the author of Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton’s Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 (1999) and Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method (2009).

Demet Güzey is a food and wine writer, researcher and lecturer based in Verona, Italy. She is the author of Food on Foot: A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild (2017).

Stig S. Frøland is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at University of Oslo. He is a specialist in infectious diseases and immunology and author of two books on HIV/AIDS.

Vilem Flusser was born in Prague in 1920. After emigrating to Brazil and then to France, he embarked on an influential career as a lecturer and writer on language, design and communication. He died in 1991.

Also available from Reaktion by Vilem Flusser is The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design.

David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent. His books include D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922–1930 (1998), Death and the Author: How D. H. Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered (2008), Love and Sex in D. H. Lawrence (2016) and Byron (Reaktion, 2023).