Lisa Jardine is Director of the AHRB Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College London, and author of many books.
Lesley Jacobs Solmonson is a spirits and cocktail journalist and speaker who has written for numerous publications, including the LA Times, Imbibe and Wine Enthusiast. Her books The 12 Bottle Bar and Gin: A Global History were finalists at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. She serves as a Curatorial Consultant at the Center for Culinary Culture in Los Angeles.
Richard Foss is a food historian and journalist. He has written for many publications including Time Out magazine, Easy Reader newspaper and Los Angeles CityBeat, and has contributed to Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (2011).
Jill Fell is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of European Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt (2005).
Lucy Daniel is a freelance reviewer and critic. She has written for a wide range of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times Magazine, Time Out, Mslexia, The Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books and the European Journal of American Culture.
Robert Bird was Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and is the author of several books including Andrei Rublev (2005) and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (Reaktion, 2008).
Vicky Lebeau is Reader in English at the University of Sussex and is the author of Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows (2001).
Alexander Badenoch is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural studies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Sanda Miller is a senior lecturer in fashion writing and culture at Southampton Solent University. Her previous books include Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of His Work and The Dark Night of the Soul: Ana Maria Pacheco.
Cheryl Buckley is Reader in Design History at the University of Northumbria and Chair of the Design History Society of Britain. She is also the author of Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry, 1870-1955 (1990) and co-author of Fashioning the Feminine (2002).