Barbara Wyllie is Deputy Editor of The Slavonic and East European Review. She is the author of Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction, and has contributed to many works, including the Reference Guide to Russian Literature.
Samantha Baskind is Associate Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Her other books include Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (2007) and Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (2004).
David Macey is the author of The Lives of Michel Foucault (1993) and Frantz Fanon: A Biography (2000).
Wolfgang B. Sperlich is an activist, linguist, education consultant and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has written widely on Oceanic linguistics and education development in the Pacific Islands and New Zealand.
Dominic Moran is a lecturer and tutor in Spanish at Christ Church College, Oxford University. He has written books and articles on a range of twentieth-century Spanish American writers including Julio Cortázar and Alejo Carpentier. He has also published a critical edition of Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Ian Grosvenor is Professor of Urban Educational History at the University of Birmingham.
Catherine Burke is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge.
They co-authored The School I’d Like: Children and Young People’s Reflections on an Education for the 21st Century (2003).
Roger Pearson is Professor of French at the University of Oxford. His publications include Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art (1996) and Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (2004), of which the latter won the R. H. Gapper Prize by the Society for French Studies. His Voltaire Almighty (2005) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.
John Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College Oxford.
Peter Vergo is Reader in the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. He organised the 1983 Edinburgh International Festival exhibition, Vienna 1900.