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.
John Simons is Executive Dean in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His other books include Animal Rights and the Politics of Literary Representation (2002), Rossetti’s Wombat (2008) ) and The Tiger that Swallowed the Boy: Exotic Animals in Victorian England (forthcoming, 2012).
Lucian Boia is Professor of History at the University of Bucharest. He is the author of Great Historians of the Modern Age (1991), La Fin du Monde: une Histoire sans Fin (1999), Romania: Borderland of Europe (Reaktion, 2001) and Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity (Reaktion, 2004).
David Gates is Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies at the University of Lancaster and the author of The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War (1986), Non-offensive Defence (1991) and Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (1998).
Maurizio Peleggi is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He is also the author of Lords of Things (2002) and The BFI Companion to the Western (2002).
John Manning is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Lampeter
Penny Sparke is Pro Vice-Chancellor in the Arts at Kingston University. Her books include As Long as It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995), An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century (Rev. Ed. 2004), and Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Decoration (2005).
Francette Pacteau is Research Associate in Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz.