Garry Marvin is Professor of Human-Animal Studies in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Roehampton, London. He has published widely in the field of animal studies and is one of the founding editors of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.
Pierre Sorlin is Professor of Sociology in Audiovisual Media, University of Paris III, and author of European Cinemas, European Societies (1991), Mass Media (1994) and Italian National Cinema (1996).
Michael Corris is Professor of Art and Chair of the Division of Art at SMU, Dallas, Texas. He was a member of the Conceptual art group ‘Art & Language’ in New York in the 1970s, and is editor of Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, and Practice (2003), and author (with David Diao) of David Diao: Works 1969-2005 (2006). As well as Ad Reinhardt (Reaktion, 2008).
Juliet Fleming is a lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Thierry Lenain is Professor of Art Theory at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is also the author of Monkey Painting (Reaktion, 1997) and Art Forgery (Reaktion, 2011).
William Rubel is a freelance food historian and the author of The Magic of Fire: Cooking on the Open Hearth (2002).
James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester. His previous books include British Comics: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2011).
Fabrizia Lanza is a food scholar and owner of the Anna Tasca Lanza Sicilian cooking school, Sicily.
Brett Mizelle is Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach.
J.A.G. Roberts is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, and is author of China Through Western Eyes (3 vols, 1991-6) and A History of China (1999).