Keith Pratt is Professor Emeritus at the Department of East Asian Studies at Durham University. He is author of numerous books and articles about Korea including, with Richard Rutt, Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (1999).
Stuart Kendall is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Humanities at Eastern Kentucky University. He has edited and translated two collections of essays by Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge (2001) and The Cradle of Humanity (2005).
Michael Coyne is the author of The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western (1997) and the novel The Sun from Both Sides (2006).
Eluned Summers-Bremner is a writer and editor. She is the author of Insomnia: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2007) and Ian McEwan: Sex, Death, and History.
James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is the author of Jean Cocteau (French Film Directors series, 2006).
Andrew Leak is Head of the French Department, University College London, Editor of Sartre Studies International, and author of The Perverted Consciousness: Sexuality and Sartre (1989), and Roland Barthes: Mythologies (1994).
Edward Kanterian is senior lecturer in philosophy at University of Kent at Canterbury, and is co-editor of Wittgenstein and his Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker (2006) and Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012).
Anthony Elliott is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. He is the co-author with Charles Lemert of The New Individualism (2005), and he has written for The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Denis Cosgrove (d. 2008) was Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the author or editor of many books, including The Palladian Landscape (1993) and Mappings (Reaktion Books, 1999).
Rosemary Lloyd is Affiliate Professor at the University of Adelaide and Rudy Professor emerita, Indiana University. She is the author of many books including Mallarmé: The Poet and his Circle (1999), Baudelaire’s World (2002), and Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life (2005).