Hans Kellner is Director of the Graduate Rhetoric Program at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Frank Ankersmit is Professor of Intellectual History and Historical Theory at Groningen University, The Netherlands.

Lawrence Sondhaus is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at the University of Indianapolis, USA. He is the author of Naval Warfare, 1815-1914 (2000); Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf: Architect of the Apocalypse (2000); Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era (1997); and two volumes on the Austrian navy

Paul Carter is Professorial Research Fellow at The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, and the author of The Road to Botany Bay (1987), The Lie of the Land (1996), Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia (Reaktion, 2002) and Parrot (Reaktion, 2006).

David Bindman was Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London and Fellow of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He was author or editor of many books including Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century (Reaktion, 2002).

Peter Bishop is Associate Professor in the School of Communications, Information and New Media, at the University of South Australia. He is the author of many books including, most recently, An Archetypal Constable: National Identity and The Geography of Nostalgia (1995).

Jeremy Aynsley is Professor of History of Design and the Head of Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of Nationalism and Internationalism in Design – Design in the Twentieth Century (1994), Graphic Design in Germany, 1890-1945 (2000), and A Century of Graphic Design (2001).

John McCannon is Professor of History at Southern New Hampshire University, and has published widely in the field of Arctic history and exploration. He is the author of Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 (1998).

George Dehner is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Wichita State University, Kansas. He is author of Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response (2012).

Mikita Brottman is a psychoanalyst, author and cultural critic. She is a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.