Arne Johan Vetlesen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He has published many books, including Perception, Empathy, and Judgment (1994) and Evil and Human Agency (2005).
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).
Catherine Lupton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Roehampton University.
Michael Chandler is a former British Army Colonel and has been involved with security, conflict situations and terrorism for over forty years. He was Chairman of the United Nations Group that monitored the implementation of sanctions against the Al-Qaeda network.
Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster. He is co-editing with Robin Boast an anthology entitled Allegories of the Information Age (forthcoming).
Axel Klein is Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the University of Kent.
Peter G. Rowe is Professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He is the author of a number of books including Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China (2002, with Seng Kuan) and Modernity and Housing (1993).
David Lomas is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester and the author of The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity (2000) and, with Michael Corris and John Dixon Hunt, Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction (Reaktion, 2010).
Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin. His other books include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, and, most recently, Doubt in the series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts.
Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, the Graduate Center, CUNY.