Joe Kerr is Head of Programme in the Department of Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London, and co-editor of Autopia (Reaktion, 2002) and London from Punk to Blair (Reaktion, 2003).
Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Ulysses (2002), Samuel Beckett(Reaktion, 2010). He is coeditor of Reaktion’s London from Punk to Blair and the author of Joyce’s Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in Ulysses and James Joyce, the latter also published by Reaktion.
Catherine Rider is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. She is author of Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (2006).
Artist and writer Victor Burgin is Millard Chair of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California. His works include Thinking Photography (1982) ,The End of Art Theory (1986), Between (1986), In/Different Spaces (1996), , Some Cities (Reaktion, 1996), Relocating (2002) and The Remembered Film (Reaktion, 2004). He has exhibited his photographic and video works world wide and has works in many public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Peter B. Lewis is former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and has published widely in the field. He is editor of Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy (2004).
Robert E. Bieder is Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Indiana, USA. He is the author of many books and articles on North American natural history, folklore and ethnology.
Nicola Humble is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. She is the author of Culinary Pleasures: Cook Books and the Transformation of British Food, as well as Victorian Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art.
Robert Irwin is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and the Middle East editor of the The Times Literary Supplement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Jill Bough is a Conjoint Academic in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She has published articles about the history of the donkey in Australian Zoologist (2006) and the Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (2009).
Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the author and editor of many books, including Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (2001).